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Kith and Kin Pro

Getting started

Introducing Kith and Kin Pro

Converting from older versions of Kith and Kin

Using Kith and KinPro with TreeDraw

Tutorials

Tutorial - Using the Tree Area

Tutorial - Working with person and family data forms

Tutorial - Simple searching

Tutorial - Searching using queries

Tutorial - Printing

Tutorial - Adding extra fields to people and families

Tutorial - Starting your own family tree

Tutorial - Importing a GEDCOM file

Tasks

Database maintenance

Starting a new database

Creating a clean database

Opening an existing database

Saving a database

Merging two databases

Copying a database

Copying part of a database

Changing the name of a database

Packing a database

Repairing a database

Clearing a database

Deleting a database

Adding and maintaining user-defined fields

Backing-up your data

Restoring data from a backup

Data maintenance

Adding a new family

Adding a new person

Editing an existing family

Editing an existing person

Marking probable links

Adding and maintaining aliases

Editing notes

Organising notes

Entering dates

Working with pictures

Working with objects

Adding and maintaining sources

Deleting a family

Deleting a person

Adding and maintaining source documents

Adding and maintaining source document repositories

Updating descriptions

Re-using an old person or family code

Updating death flags

Removing duplicate records

Editing data in bulk

Searching / querying

Searching for people

Seaching for families

Searching for sources

Using a query to find data

Calculating ages

Calculating phonetic codes

Displaying statistics

Displaying a relationship between two people

Searching for date errors / inconsistencies

Searching for events on a particular day

Searching for people who are not on the Tree Area

Displaying modified records

Screen

Moving around the Tree Area

Zooming in and out

Moving to a specific family

Selecting families using the mouse

Selecting families by relationship

Selecting all families

Moving families

Displaying a family summary

Arranging the open forms

Closing all open forms at once

Aligning families vertically

Using the Timeline Window

Choosing layers

Choosing the selection's layer

Choosing all layers

Moving families to a layer

Removing families from a layer

Creating a new layer from selection

Managing layers

Choosing fonts and colours

Turning the Tree Area on and off

Turning the Button Bar on and off

Turning the Status Bar on and off

Turning the Tree Area Control on and off

Printing

Using the report control form

Printing the tree layout

Printing family details

Printing person details

Printing indices

Printing a descendant tree

Printing an ancestral tree

Printing an indented descendant tree

Printing a missing data report

Printing a timeline

Printing a census report

Printing source document details

Printing document repository details

Setting printer options

Setting page options

Previewing a report on the screen

Printing from a preview

Printing to text files

Copying printed pages to the clipboard

Importing / exporting

Importing a GEDCOM file

Exporting a GEDCOM file

Exporting Web pages

Customising Web pages

Exporting data to a delimited text file

Importing a text file into notes

Exporting a text file from notes

Exporting a report to a PDF file

General

Setting preferences

Editing the timeline

Customising the button bar

Setting date options

Converting dates

Setting options

Setting current database options

Choosing a family to move to when the tree is opened

Choosing the current database language

Setting regional / language options

Setting picture options

Exiting from the program

Checking for program updates

Reference

File menu

Edit menu

Search menu

View menu

Layers menu

Tools menu

Window menu

Options menu

Using the Tree Area Control

Selecting / defining a database name

Selecting a family

Selecting a person

Database fields

Additional LDS information

SQL syntax

Supported GEDCOM syntax

Timeline text file format

System requirements

Frequently asked questions

Version information

Terms of use

Glossary

GEDCOM

Layer

LDS

Metaphone

OLE embedding

OLE linking

OLE object

Soundex

Tree Area

How to get support

How to contact us

Ordering / registration

Searching for sources

In the Search Window click on the Source tab at the top.

You can search for a Source reference, a Source document or a Source document repository.

Source reference searches must specify whether to search In people or In families. Selecting one of these options will display the available fields and you can then select which fields you want to include in the search. By clicking on the "Person" or "Family" checkbox at the top of the Fields list, you can select all or none of the fields.

Source document or Source document repository searches can be used alone (ie. with all the Source reference fields blank), in which case the results will show the document or repository records, or you can also define Source reference criteria, in which case the results will show the people or familes which reference the document or repository records.

Criteria for text-type fields can be partial matches and/or case-sensitive.
For example, a partial match, not case-sensitive search for "Author = fred" will find "Fred", "Frederick" and "Alfred" but with partial match turned off will only find "Fred".
If the same example was a partial match and case-sensitive then only "Author = Fred" would find "Fred" and "Frederick".

Normally, searches with multiple conditions (more than one field filled out) produce results where records meet every condition. You can change this so that the results contain records which meet any of the conditions by clicking on the Match any field option. Clicking on the Match all fields option only finds records which match all the conditions.

When the search criteria are complete, click on the Search button to perform the search.

Once you have the displayed the results of your search you can format the way that the results are displayed. In the field-names row at the top of the grid, drag the right-hand edge of the column to change the size of the column. Drag in the centre of a field name in the top row of the grid to move the entire column to a different position.

You can open the record's data form directly by double-clicking on its row in the results table.

You can also output your search results; either as a delimited text file, printout or print preview. Right-click on the results to see the output options.

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