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Please let us know if you have needed help on something not covered in this section. Welcome to our genealogy pages. This Help page will give you a short overview of how to get around and get the most out of our site. It will hopefully give you the basic navigation tools needed to make your visit both enjoyable and informative without a lot of difficulty. Please keep in mind that this section is in no way a complete how-to guide, and you may have to be a registered user and logged in (use![]() Many of us use one genealogical program or another and nearly all of them have a very graphical look to them. You can see your family group sheets, display charts, etc. This website is much the same except that, instead of it being on your computer, it is on the internet. This walk-through will introduce you to the primary functions of the site. The bold, green links embedded on this page will open a second window (or tab); you can follow these steps in the new window/tab while referencing the steps here. In either case, the following link opens a new window (or tab) to our Home Page. Features of that page can be seen and the window/tab can also be used to explore the features discussed below. On the home page you will see links to the various sections of the site, links to Darryl, Alexandra and Sheridan's ancestors, and a Search box on the right side of the page. To begin, click on any link and you will notice that every page (like this one) contains a set of four icons directly under the page header. The function of each icon link is quite straightforward: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some pages also have the ![]() On the right hand side of the header, you will see three drop down menus: Find - Media - Info. These can be used to quickly access any area of the site. If you hover the mouse (not click) you will see drop-down menus that give you options to help navigate this site. In the search box (right side of home page), put "Brady" (without the quotes) in for the Last Name and "James" (without the quotes) in for First Name and press <Enter>. This will give you a list of the results that were found to match. On this list, click on the name of the James whose Person ID is "I624" (Born Between 1833 and 1835, Inishcarra, County Cork, Ireland). You are now at his Individual Page, the header of which you see below. Take a few minutes to orient yourself with the layout. This is the "core" display of the genealogy pages. The standard view shows all of the most pertinent 'Personal Information'; the other views listed in the green bar limit information to a specific category. Note that the personal information is divided into three sections -- the Individual selected, his/her Parents, and his/her Spouse and Children (if any). Clicking on the "Group Sheet" link next to the appropriate Family ID will bring up either the Parental Family Group sheet (parents and siblings, with the individual as a child) or the Selected Person's Family Group sheet (spouse and children, with the individual as a parent). Try these out. Now let's look at the 5 tabs next to the "Individual" tab: Ancestors, Descendants, Relationship, Timeline, and Suggest. 1) Click on " Ancestors" and you will find a dynamic chart. The default view is the "standard" view (4 generations). (Note that each generation is shown in a slightly different shade, getting progressively lighter with each older generation.) Clicking on any of the names on the chart will take you to the individual sheet for that person. You will notice that there are little blue arrows In the green bar there are a number of other Ancestor chart views available by clicking on Compact, Box,
Text, Ahnentafel, or Media. The latter displays both lines of parentage for any individual --
and lists that person's grand-parents, great-grandparents, and so on -- as far back as is known,
based on the number of generations selected for the display.
The [top of page] ..... [back to Tabs List] 2) The " Descendants" tab gives you a listing of all descendants of this individual. The default view is the "Text" list, also known as a "descendant drop chart."
Notice that in many places there is a little white box with a minus sign in it.
Click this box and that branch of this tree will collapse to this position. Try it!
Also, once the descendants are displayed in this text format, you can show a graphic view (with photos)
of a specific branch of descendants from that ancestor by clicking the descendant icon
Try clicking on the other types of Descendant charts, listed on the green bar: Standard - a traditional "tree" with photos (where available), Compact - without photos, and Register - a list of generations in tabular form, similar to Ahnentafel. [top of page] ..... [back to Tabs List] 3) The " Relationships" tab allows you to generate a box chart to show the relationship between this individual and any other person in your tree. Just click on the "Find" button under "Person 2" and search for "William Brady" (remember, last name on top). Select 'William George Brady' (ID-I371) and click "Calculate" [top of page] ..... [back to Tabs List] 4) The " Timeline" tab allows you to view a list of important (and some not-so-important) events that occurred during his lifetime. Hovering over the timeline with your cursor will reveal that individual's personal events (birth, marriage, births of children, death). Timelines for up to four other people can be added to the page to show the timeline relationship between this person and the others. You can also populate a timeline by finding any 2-4 individuals manually and thereby compare them across the ages. This gives you a unique perspective to see what was going on in the world during the lives of our ancestors. [top of page] ..... [back to Tabs List] 5) The "Suggest" tab allows you to suggest any changes or additions and then automatically sends the information to us, so that we can evaluate your suggestion and add it to the database. The identity of the individual you are referencing is automatically attached to the message when you make a suggestion using the Suggestion tab.
Where the people are ... There are two primary ways to get to the records of an individual:
As described above, the "Suggest" tab allows you to suggest any changes or additions (corrections, updates, comments), or any other information about a specific individual or family record; it then automatically sends the information to us. We will evaluate your suggestion and add it to the database if appropriate. The identity of the individual or family you are referencing is automatically attached to the message when you make send us such a suggestion. As the master copy of our database is maintained 'offline' we do not offer the facility for users to directly edit information. If you wish to tell or ask us something general, rather than related to a specific individual or family, then use the 'Contact Us' link in the 'Find' drop-down menu. Photographs and other media can be linked to individual and family records. We have added some photographs but have a lot more yet to categorise and add to the database. We would very much like to hear from you if you are able to provide photos or other media showing or relevant to anyone in the database. Please let us know if you can offer anything. [including Google maps and Snapshots, to be added] There is much more functionality on the website, but this walk through should be a good intro to the system. Feel free to poke around; you can't break it. But if you find anything wrong, or page errors, please let us know so we can fix it!
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This entire website is made possible by the excellent TNG (The Next Generation) software from Darrin Lythgoe.
Visit Darrin's website for more information. Thanks and appreciation are due to
Käti & Graham,
Jerry Liebowitz,
Eddy Belew,
Bret Rumsey,
and Steve Winslow,
whose TNG genealogy websites' Help pages inspired this page. |