ABOUT

KINWIN ver 1.0

AUTHOR Tom Miles

copyright (c)  1995 Tom Miles

Requirements

                IBM or compatible PC 386 or higher

                Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher

                Graphics VGA

                mouse

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp.

IBM is a reg. trademark of International Business Machines Corp.

                This is the trial version which is full featured except

                that their is a limit on the number of records that can

                be added. Twenty records can be added, linked, edited, sorted

                etc. to decide whether the program may be of use to you.

                If it is, the registered version can be obtained by sending

                $15 (US) to Tom Miles 801 Fraser Rd Glenside Pa 19038 USA.

                Upon receipt a 3.5 in disk containing KINWIN will be mailed

                to you.


                        INTRODUCTION

     Visualize a huge flat surface with all of your genealogy records,

     arranged in connecting family trees, spread out before you on that

     surface. You are looking at the surface through one small window.

     The window is sized so that only one of the records is in view.

     Beside the window are buttons which move the surface in any family

     direction, be it to parents, to siblings, to children, to other

     husbands or other wives. This is the metaphor of KINWIN.

     KINWIN's main feature is that you can click your way quickly through

     complex family trees containing large amounts of data, in any

     family direction. You can move from generation to generation or you can

     choose one family group and explore its immediate relatives, returning

     to the same family group after each excursion.


                         ENTERING DATA

     Before entering data, click the ADD button. A blank record pops up and

     can be filled with data. If the ADD THIS ENTRY button is clicked, the

     record is added to the file, and the NOTE space for that record appears

     so that any additional information for that record can be entered.

     CONTINUE on the note record returns you to the blank record to make

     additional entries or return to the main screen with DONE ADDING.

     When entering names, enter the surname first so that the sorting will

     be on surnames.


                         LINKING

     The link buttons consist of three parts, a relative-title-bar

     (i.e. H parent) which is clicked to go to that relative's record,

     followed by two buttons numbered 1 and 2 which are used to set the

     link.

     To set a link, move from the original record (the one for which the

     links are being set) using the "Find" button or the red move buttons

     if the record is nearby, to the relative's record.

     When that relative's record is in view. click on 1 (if it is

     the Husband parents for example, click on the 1 on the H parent

     button). Move back to the original record using "Find" or red buttons

     and click on 2 (in this example it would be the 2 on the H parent

     button). The numbered buttons must be set in that sequence, 1 first,

     then 2.

     Now test the link by clicking the relative-title-bar of the link

     just set. In this example it would be the part of the button with

     "Hparent" written on it.

     That relative's record appears.  Clicking the BACK

     button returns to the original record.(To remove a link, click

     1 then 2 while the original record is in view.)

     The parent to child link should be set from the parents to the oldest

     child only (see Moving Through the Family Tree).  The sibling link

     should be set to the next younger sibling until the youngest child

     is reached and the youngest child then linked to the oldest sibling.

     Each child is linked to the parent with the parent link.

     In linking from male siblings to female avoid the mistake of using the

     "Hsibling" button for the male as one end of the link and then the

     "Wsibling"button for the female as the other end of the link.

     It is the "Hsibling" button that's being set in this case

     and the link is to another record not an individual so the 1 on the

     "Hsibling" button on the record of the female would be used.


                  MOVING THROUGH THE FAMILY TREE

     With the link buttons set, you can move from generation to

     generation by clicking the parent link over and over, going from

     parents to grandparents to great grandparents etc.. Or you can choose

     a base record and explore the records of the different relatives of

     that couple, returning after each excursion to the base record by

     clicking on the BACK button.


                      SORT

      The records can be put into alphabetical order in two ways.

      When  "Husband or male" is chosen in the sort dialog box which

      appears when the Sort button is clicked, records will be arranged

      alphabetically by that field and the new first record placed in view.

      When "Wife or female" is chosen, records will be arranged

      alphabetically by that field and the new first record placed in view.


                       FIND

       A blank record appears when the Find Button is clicked.

       Type the sought word or words in any one field(do not make

       entries in more than one field).It will be found if it occurs

       in that field on any record; however, if it is present in

       another field it won't be found. Find is not case sensitive.

       (The sought word "doe" will find "Doe".)

       Since there are no successive finds, it is necessary to enter

       enough information to insure that the desired record is found

       when several records have similar data. The records can also

       be sorted before a find and then after the find move with the

       red arrows to nearby similar records.


                       PRINT

       Clicking the PRINT button brings up the defaults for the printer

       and the printer set-up. All of the records are printed one after

       the other as a means of making a hard copy of the data. No ancestor

       chart printing is available.


                       NOTES

       Each record has a note space which is displayed by clicking

       on the Note button when that record is in view. As each record

       is initially added to the file with the Add button, the note

       space is displayed and can be edited.

       When information is present in a note for a record, a button

       with a dot in the center appears between the BACK button and

       the NOTES button.


                       MOVING THROUGH THE FILE

       The buttons containing red arrows are used for moving through

       the file.  Arrows pointing to the right control moves toward

       the last record. The arrow without bars moves to next record

       and disappears when the last record is reached. The arrow with

       bars moves to the last record.

       Arrows pointing to the left control moves toward the first record.

       The arrow without bars moves to the previous record and disappears

       when it reaches the first record.  The arrow with bars moves to

       the first record.


                        EXIT

       Exit the program by clicking on the DONE button.


                          LEGALITIES

       There is no warranty expressed or implied as to the suitability of

       KINWIN for any express purpose.  As with any software, it is

       impossible to guarantee that all incompatibilities have been

       discovered and corrected.

       By registering KINWIN, you are purchasing a single user license to

       use the program.  No registered copy may be further distributed

       in any way to any other potential user.

       The unregistered version may be distributed in unmodified form to

       anyone wishing to evaluate it and may be placed on BBS' for this

       purpose.


Index1

ABOUT

 INTRODUCTION

 ENTERING DATA

 LINKING

 MOVING THROUGH THE FAMILY TREE

 SORT

 FIND

 NOTES

 MOVING THROUGH THE FILE

 PRINT

 EXIT

 LEGALITIES