============================================================================ Kith and Kin for Windows 3.1 Version 2.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major upgrade release - Release date: 1 February 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Nick J Hunter, SpanSoft 11 Morlich Park, Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 5XW, Scotland Tel: National: (0383) 824380 International: +44 383 824380 voice/fax E-Mail: UseNet/InterNet: nick.hunter@almac.co.uk FidoNet: 2:259/17 ============================================================================ The product ----------- Kith and Kin is a software package for documenting and storing family trees which will appeal to genealogists, family historians and anyone interested in researching and documenting family history. It features an easy to use graphical interface and powerful multi-level editing tools which makes it ideal for both large and small trees. The program supports date and place of births, marriages and deaths as well as multiple marriages and aliases for each person. Pictures, diagrams, sounds, etc may be embedded in or linked to a person or family. A printed book can be produced with family group details (which may incorporate pictures and diagrams) and a complete, cross-referenced index to names and families. The user has control over the formatting and extent of all printed reports which also include tree layout, descendant tree, ancestral tree and person details. Compatibility with "Personal Ancestral File" GEDCOM files means the user can export and import data to and from other genealogy programs. Features -------- The program is simple to use and anyone familiar with Windows will quickly learn to control the following features. > Graphical representation of family units and relationships provides fast access to editing. > Multi-level editing means the user can traverse the tree while editing and adding people and families. > Support for date and place of births, deaths and marriages. > Multiple aliases are allowed for each person. > Notes for each person and family may be entered, edited and are included in printed reports. Full clipboard support allows exchange of text with other applications. > Pictures, diagrams, sounds, videos and any object created by other applications which support OLE may be associated with a person or family. > Search for text in any field, including notes, then edit person or family details direct from the search results. > Each person and family has a code which allows fast access to editing as well as making the printed documents readable. > Printouts include tree layout, descendant tree, ancestral tree, family details, person details and index. The format and extent of printed documents may be fully controlled by the user. > PAF GEDCOM files may be imported and exported. Export all or part of a tree and create a new tree or merge trees when importing. > Supports TrueType fonts and colour printing. > Extensive on-line, context sensitive help. New features, enhancements and bug fixes ---------------------------------------- (see the on-line help for a complete list) Version 2.0 : (1 February 1994) Support for PAF GEDCOM files (the Genealogical Data Communication standard) is now included. You can export and import data to and from other genealogy programs. Simply specify that the file you wish to open is a GEDCOM file and Kith and Kin will do the rest. You can create a new tree or merge the GEDCOM file with an existing tree. Saving to a GEDCOM file is just as easy. Export one person, selected families or an entire tree. There are now indicators in Person and Family data dialogs to show if any notes or objects are present. The dialog fields and controls now have hot-keys to speed up keyboard use. A new search facility has been added to check for people in limbo, ie. people who do not appear in families because they have no parents or marriages. Due to the length of time taken to load larger GEDCOM files, a status indicator bar is displayed each time any file type is opened or saved. Clicking on the Cancel button will abort the process. The placement of new family rectangles has been improved. The Select Dialog has been improved to handle larger trees. You can now scroll the tree area while moving or placing families. Simply move the cursor to the edge of window in the direction that you want to scroll. Hold down the CTRL key to move in larger jumps. You can also use the PageUp, PageDn, Home and cursor keys to scroll around the tree area. The tree area display has been enhanced. The current tree is not deleted when a File|Open fails. Some reports were becoming garbled when text was being printed beyond the edges of the page (eg. in ancestral trees). This version correctly clips all text at the set margins. The heading lines in the Family Details printout were missing from page 2 onwards on some printers. This has now been fixed. A Person Details printout is now available for printing details of one or more people. The Descendant and Ancestral trees now have titles and have been improved to handle multi-page printing. Printers which can handle continuous stationery can produce large charts without having to join sheets. The Family Details printout now has improved widow/orphan control, eg. a page break was possible between the CHILDREN header and the first child. The Tree Layout print has been enhanced. The Index printout can now be sorted by either code or name. Appropriate menu items are now correctly disabled when there are no people and/or families in the current tree. The following are the limits on the size of the tree data. You can have up to 16383 people and families combined. The size of the Tree Area is approx. 200 families wide by 350 high. The maximum number of characters which can be held in each person or family notes is 9500. Ultimately the total amount of tree data will depend on the amount of memory (RAM) in your PC. To some extent the speed of your PC will govern the usability of the software with large amounts of data. System requirements ------------------- IBM compatible PC 286 or above VGA screen Windows 3.1 or above 800Kb free disk space Mouse Registration ------------ This product is SHAREWARE. The version on this release disk is a fully functional evaluation copy which the user may install and use free of charge for 30 days. After that time, if the user wishes to continue use, a fixed registration fee of 24 Pounds Sterling is payable to us. Occasional registration reminder screens are used in the program, increasing in intensity when 30 days have passed, but no crippling is used. Upon registration the user becomes entitled to the registered version of the software, telephone support and notification of new releases and updates. The registered version has been optimised by removing the registration reminder coding. A data file conversion program which will convert tree (.TRE) and options (.OPT) files created by earlier versions of Kith and Kin so that they can be used with the latest release is provided with all registered versions of the software. Vendor information ------------------ Installation: To run the application, copy all files from this release disk to a working directory on your hard disk and run KITHKIN.EXE. Terms: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution Policy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- You (the vendor) have permission to copy and distribute our shareware in its original form on condition that: > you identify it as shareware > you leave all intellectual property (copyright) notices in place > we do not request that you stop distribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------- You may include or exclude all or parts of the optional files, compress or archive all the files and include other files on your distribution disks. In short, you may do whatever you consider will create the widest and most effective distribution as long as you stick to the three conditions of the distribution policy. General: The files REQUIRED for distribution are: KITHKIN.EXE KITHKIN.HLP KITHKIN.OPT BWCC.DLL SAMPLE.TRE OPTIONAL distribution files are: FILE_ID.DIZ README.TXT VENDOR.TXT KITHKIN.EXE & KITHKIN.HLP are copyright (c) SpanSoft 1993, 1994. BWCC.DLL is copyright (c) Borland International 1991. If you have any problems, questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact us. ============================================================================