Create a new gedcom file

Choosing New from the File menu places you in Edit mode, and you can begin entering details of your relatives.

You must first enter information about individuals: you can then create families by selecting family members from the available individuals. Each time you add a new individual or family, you must save the data in the program by clicking the Add or Save button towards the bottom of the window, before adding or editing another individual or family. If you later want to add to or change the information you have entered, you can easily do so.

On the Main page, dates must be entered in numerical form, using the numbers 1 to 12 to represent the months January to December. You can enter dates differently by entering birth, baptism, death or burial information as events on the Details page.

When you have finished entering data, you must save it to file, by choosing Save As from the File menu, or by clicking Save on the toolbar. This will create your new gedcom file.

You can display charts from your new data by choosing Close from the File menu or from the toolbar, and then making a choice from the Charts menu. Not all the data which you can enter will be shown on the charts. For instance, you can enter both birth and baptism data, but only one or other will be shown on a chart; and similarly for death and burial data.