Is there any way to print only a certain pageof a report? I've made corrections to page 20 and only need that page in the family group sheet.

Is there a way to copy the descendant chart out CFT to an email in netscape, in the original boxstructure, if necessary as attachment? One way I found myself: Importing it in NMS word as a figure and then copying it to netscape. The reciever of the email cannot modify the copy in that case. I am a beginner and only short time ago a mailing list subscriber. I hope somebody has the answer. Thanks K.J.Kombrink

No. No way to change the IRN numbers. The represent actual Record Numbers. Ira At 07:11 PM 4/24/98 -0400, you wrote: >#1. Is it possible to re index your database? When I entered my information, I >put in the people I knew of; later added more, deleted some etc. Now the IRNs >are all over the place .. can I change that, so there is some sort of logical >sequence to them? > >Grateful for all advice! >Moira > ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

Dear Don thanks for the reply and the information. However, what I wanted to know (I obviously didn't make myself clear) is how can I change the IRN numbers for the people I have so that they follow a logical sequence? I know how to call them up using the alphabetical list, as you describe; it just doesn't make sense to have parents with IRN numbers of say, 147 and 002, followed by children who are 156, 004, 65 and 12. I'd just like to be able to re-number or re-index them all! Hoping you (or someone out there) can help, but thanks for the thought, Moira

#1. Is it possible to re index your database? When I entered my information, I put in the people I knew of; later added more, deleted some etc. Now the IRNs are all over the place .. can I change that, so there is some sort of logical sequence to them? Grateful for all advice! Moira

Hi all I've just opened a database untouched since I converted it from CFT-DOS to CFTW95. It must have been vers. 2.06 I used then. I'm running 2.29 now. It appears that all events has turned into family events - marked with a "*". When opening an event one (and the very same) individual is related to all events thoughout the entire database. E.i. Doug Douglas and Joe Jones was born 1. apr 1900 in ........ When entering a new individual in the base, this individual seems to be OK. So I guess the entire mess took place during the convertion. First exercise was to rebuild key files. Same result. Next I tried to delete Joe Jones from the base. Same result. I've also tried to eksport the base into a new one using GEDCOM. Same result. Has anybody else had a similar ghost popping up in their database? Any suggestions on how to handle this will be most welcome! Kind regards Jesper Wind, Copenhagen

At 08:50 AM 4/20/98 -0400, a Subscriber wrote: >Please don't make the background red. Black on red is impossible to read. Hi Folks. No one is "making" the backgrounds the colors you all describe. It has something to do with the Digests, RootsWeb, Your ISP, and Your Email Browser. There's something there somewhere that is causing the colors due to incompatibilities. It's being worked on and hopefully will be "fixed" soon. In the meantime, you can always unsubscribe to the Digest Mode and re-subscribe to the Normal Mode, which gives you each message individually, rather than all together in a Digest. Regards, SgtGeorge List Administrator

>>The downside of the CFT program for organizing is its limitation on the >>size of the graphics to 100K or less. I have several scans of over 1MB. >I have not encountered this restriction in CFTW. I have a number of 1.3 MB >JPG files (over 3 MB in normal BMP format) and these display and print quite >OK, although their resolution is not utilised with the fixed output format. The suggested size is about 100K, but as Ian points out you can use larger files. But if you put a lot of 1meg files and then try to do a Photo Pedigree which can display more than a dozen images on a single page, I often see this bring most computers to their knees. And since the images are never actually displayed at a size large enough to show the full detail of such a large file it doesn't make sense to use these large images - Thus the "suggestion" to keep file sizes down. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

There has lately been some discussion about photos, picture files and scanning resolution here in this list Before I scan an old photo I evaluate which scanning resolution I need. In this connection I consider: - What is the resolution of my printer (and my screen)? - What is the resolution (details) of the very photo? The picture resolution of a printer is given in lpi(lines pr. inch). This figure is much smaller than the printerresolution stated in dpi(dots pr. inch). The lpi resolution of a 600 dpi printer is about 100 lpi, this will give about 64 greylevels. The lpi resolution of a 1200 dpi printer is usually in the same order (100 lpi), the number of greylevels are then just higher (say 256). In order to print a 100 lpi picture you will need a picture file with a resolution which is somewhat higher then 100 dpi to accomodate for interpolation errors during printing. A factor of 1.5 is usually recommended, in a few cases you may benefit just a little bit from a somewhat higher factor, say about 2. This means that a normal 100 lpi print will need a picture resolution of 150 dpi, at most 200 dpi. This resolution will also do for a PC screen. A screen of to-day has a resolution of about 100 dpi. Future high-resulution screens are not likely to exceed 200 dpi. When we look at the photo to be scanned we find that the details, the resolution, of a normal photo is no larger than corresponding to about 200 dpi. This may be surprising, but if you want to explore more details in your picture, you will have to look at the original negative film. The scanning of a 35 mm negative film requires a special scanner. This all leads me to scanning my photos in such a way that the final picture has a resolution af no more than 200 dpi. All my old photos are in black/white. A typical black/white photo of 4*6 inches will then get a raw filesize of about 960 kBytes. For use in Cumberland Family Tree it is a good idea to decrease the picture size to say 2*3 inches. This will reduce the raw filesize to around 240 kB. I get a further reduction of the filesize in CFTW by using JPG picture files. The JPG format is able to offer a noticeable reduction of the filesize, typically about 10 times, depending on the picture content. The mentioned 2*3 inch picture will then get a size within CFTW of some 25k. The JPG file format is a good choice for CFTW, but it is not well suited for archival purposes. The reason is that it involves some loss in picture quality, i.e. it will remove some of the lesser important picture details. This is usually not visible, but it may be unwanted for archival purposes. For archival purposes I choose between file formats like BMP, PCX, TIF and GIF. Neither of them are able to offer the same compression factors as JPG, sometimes they give no reduction in filesize at all, but they do not remove or reduce any picture details. I often use TIF with LZW compression. It will in most cases give the smallest file of those four formats mentioned. Erik

I've been importing my databases into CFT-Win95 from CFT-DOS. 2 Problems: 1. Even when I have "sure" exact dates for marriages, CFT lists the marriage date as "about". 2. For living people who have (obviously) no death date, the program automatically inserts "DEAD" in the death event. I can't find a configuration way around this. Can anyone help? Thanks!

I have an Epson 600 inkjet printer which seems to give near photographic quality for sufficiently detailed images. I believe the resolution is supposed to be up to 7200 dpi though that resolution is seldom used since it is so slow. Also, for the best quality you need to use photo paper, which costs about a dollar a sheet in 8x10 size. In any event, the question is then whether using CFTW would limit that resolution in its printing as seems implied below. I have other tools for printing of course (e.g. Photoshop, LVIEW etc) so printing per se is not a basic problem unless it is not convenient to find an album or photo with CFTs Photo Album and have to then us another tool for printing. The main question for which I now have a number of useful answers, was that of organization since once you put on an R CD, cannot be changed without rewriting to others. In a few years of course new media like DVD will supplant all this so many will want to rewrite anyway. At 08:51 PM 4/14/98 +1000, you wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: William Croker <bcroker@sprint.ca> > >>The downside of the CFT program for organizing is its limitation on the >>size of the graphics to 100K or less. I have several scans of over 1MB. >I have not encountered this restriction in CFTW. I have a number of 1.3 MB >JPG files (over 3 MB in normal BMP format) and these display and print quite >OK, although their resolution is not utilised with the fixed output format.

-----Original Message----- From: William Croker <bcroker@sprint.ca> To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com <CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, 14 April 1998 20:36 Subject: Re: Organizing photos >The downside of the CFT program for organizing is its limitation on the >size of the graphics to 100K or less. I have several scans of over 1MB. > I have not encountered this restriction in CFTW. I have a number of 1.3 MB JPG files (over 3 MB in normal BMP format) and these display and print quite OK, although their resolution is not utilised with the fixed output format. Ian Fettes Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Reply to: fettesi@st.net.au

The downside of the CFT program for organizing is its limitation on the size of the graphics to 100K or less. I have several scans of over 1MB. A relatively good, and cheap, option is a program called Power Album from Softkey - nothing fancy but easy to use and inexpensive. Allows you to set up a book with chapters, and on the pages place objects - which may be any OLE compatible element such as JPG, GIF, BMP, DOC, TXT, etc as well as sound and video. It will also allow you to store the objects on any media, so in one book you can combine floppy, HDD, and CD. As I said, noting fancy. Really all it does is create a book of thumbnails to point to actual file locations on disk. I bought mine in the CD-ROM section of a local book store. ---------- > From: Joseph Cain <cain@quartz.gly.fsu.edu> > To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Organizing photos > Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 9:04 PM > > Dear people, > > To date I have been skipping over the traffic that has to do with > images and photos since I have so few. Well, this will change > shortly since I bought an Astra 1200S scanner and also acquired > (mainly for office data storage) a cd rom writer (HP 7200e) > that writes both R and RW CDs. > > My question thus is to elicit your advice on how to start organizing > the photos we already have scanned (or obtained otherwise). Is it useful > for example to use the CFT photo album program? How best does one > organize photos? I am seeking advice from those with experience in > this area, especially since I plan to use the R cd's for storage because > they are so cheap. I have to start getting files off my hard drive since > I have now only a few hundred megs on each left and cannot put a > lot of scanned images on at once. (I have 1 and 1.6 GB drives). > > Of course some of the photos are for people not on the family tree, > but most are.

Joseph, For what it is worth, here are a few comments. There are a couple of questions you need ask yourself. 1) Do you want to print an album? 2) Do you want to run a screen slide show? If you want to print a traditional photo album, then Family Photo Album (FPA) does a great job. It allows you to organise your data into albums (represented as directories on disk) and within then grouped into chapters (like CFTW). A choice of two image sizes is available. A story may be written to accompany each chapter, and each photo has a printable description. I use FPA to store my non genealogical images that I want to distribute in printed form to family and friends. CD storage would probably work OK when the album is complete only. The structure of the chapters and albums is eminently flexible. When a display type of presentation is required, I believe a non-CFT product like Graphics Workshop for WIndows may be more appropriate. This type of package allows both a thumbnail type printable album as well as screen slide show facilities. Scanning for screen display requires a resolution to suit not just your present maximum screen size, but also the one you may have in 10 years time. You don't want to keep scanning the old images each time. This may require a scan width of perhaps 2000 pixels, resulting in a large image. The CD storage is useful here. With printed output you can sometimes get away with a lower resolution scan on small images. However, for large size output, which in FPA is about 5 inches wide, you need to scan at say 3/4 of the printer output rate by the width of the output. For a 600 dpi printer, you need about 2250 pixels wide to give good results. The actual scan rate at the scanner is then dependant on the width of the original image. If the original is 3 inches wide, then scan it at 2250/3 or 750 dpi. If 6 inches wide, scan at 2250/6 or 375 dpi. The standard FPA small size print requires about half these resolutions. I think you will find that every user on this list will be doing something different. As scan rates increase, and storage becomes less expensive, our concepts of quality and acceptable output change. Therefore there is no single, simple answer. Cheers, Ian Fettes Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Reply to: fettesi@st.net.au -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Cain <cain@quartz.gly.fsu.edu> To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com <CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, 14 April 1998 11:04 Subject: Organizing photos > >My question thus is to elicit your advice on how to start organizing >the photos we already have scanned (or obtained otherwise). Is it useful >for example to use the CFT photo album program? How best does one >organize photos? >

Dear people, To date I have been skipping over the traffic that has to do with images and photos since I have so few. Well, this will change shortly since I bought an Astra 1200S scanner and also acquired (mainly for office data storage) a cd rom writer (HP 7200e) that writes both R and RW CDs. My question thus is to elicit your advice on how to start organizing the photos we already have scanned (or obtained otherwise). Is it useful for example to use the CFT photo album program? How best does one organize photos? I am seeking advice from those with experience in this area, especially since I plan to use the R cd's for storage because they are so cheap. I have to start getting files off my hard drive since I have now only a few hundred megs on each left and cannot put a lot of scanned images on at once. (I have 1 and 1.6 GB drives). Of course some of the photos are for people not on the family tree, but most are.

One of the reports (lists) I have been using frequently is the Miscellaneous Data list or the Place Name list. When I go to a certain cemetery, it is handy to have all the people buried in that cemetery on a list. I find, though, that I have to do a lot of writing on the list since the events and dates do not print on the list. A wish for version 3.0: under the check for 'INCLUDE INDIVIDUALS' if you could add a check box for 'INCLUDE EVENTS'. Then the list would change from: xxxxxx Holy Name Cemetery xxxxxx F Brandis, Rozalia xxxxxx M Chojnowski, Maciej xxxxxx F Chojnowski, Stella etc. to: xxxxxx Holy Name Cemetery xxxxxx F Brandis, Rozalia birth: 1883 marriage: abt 1900 Maciej Chojnowski death: 1941 xxxxxx M Chojnowski, Maciej birth: abt 1880 marriage: Rozalia Brandis death: Sep 1947 burial: 15 Sep 1947 xxxxxx F Chojnowski, Stella birth: 20 Dec 1905 Staten Island, NJ death: 04 Jan 1996 Bayonne, NJ etc. : 1 line per event if the event is used. Since this would be optional, the list would look the same for people who don't need this extra information. I like to carry only a clipboard when I visit archives and cemeteries and it would save a lot of extra writing of the dates. Thanks for the consideration. Karen Pastuzyn

>Ian....I always read your posts...you helped me immensly a few months back, maybe a year when I was just learning CFT....It is good to have people like you to help us learners on our way. Many thanks for the time you take to answer various requests. Verne Garrison: Elkhart, IL vgarris@abelink.com At 06:49 PM 4/11/98 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Jesper and All, > >Jesper sent me two sample images to illustrate the problem he was having, >and I have found the following solution:- > >JPG files have two different data compression algorithms available. >Huffman Standard compression, and >Huffman Progressive compression. > >CFTW is only able to read the Standard compression. Jespers problem files >had Progressive compression. > >The solution is to read the problem files into a picture editing program, >and save them in the JPG format, with the Standard Compression option >enabled. I use Paint Shop Pro, which does this very nicely. > >A change in an option must have occurred with the scanning software, so I >would suggest that is the place to look to avoid the problem in future. > >Other users who have recently had odd problems with graphic files may care >to check this aspect too. > >Regards, > >Ian Fettes >Brisbane, Queensland, Australia >Reply to: fettesi@st.net.au > > > > >

With PKZip or with new Winzip you can zip a file across multiple disks. You could transfer your data file that way. Ed Blakeley At 03:54 PM 4/10/98 -0500, you wrote: >My old DOS CFT-Pro is on one machine with 6 databases in it. > >My new CFT-Win is on another machine. I can't fit the whole C:\CFTREE >subdirectory onto a floppy. How can I use the direct-import feature under >the File>Import CFT-Pro 4.x? Can't I do it from a floppy? Please help. >Thanks ! > >Norm Pihale > > > >

Hi Jesper and All, Jesper sent me two sample images to illustrate the problem he was having, and I have found the following solution:- JPG files have two different data compression algorithms available. Huffman Standard compression, and Huffman Progressive compression. CFTW is only able to read the Standard compression. Jespers problem files had Progressive compression. The solution is to read the problem files into a picture editing program, and save them in the JPG format, with the Standard Compression option enabled. I use Paint Shop Pro, which does this very nicely. A change in an option must have occurred with the scanning software, so I would suggest that is the place to look to avoid the problem in future. Other users who have recently had odd problems with graphic files may care to check this aspect too. Regards, Ian Fettes Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Reply to: fettesi@st.net.au

At 03:54 PM 4/10/98 -0500, Norm Pihale wrote: >My old DOS CFT-Pro is on one machine with 6 databases in it. > >My new CFT-Win is on another machine. I can't fit the whole C:\CFTREE >subdirectory onto a floppy. How can I use the direct-import feature under >the File>Import CFT-Pro 4.x? Can't I do it from a floppy? Please help. Make GEDCOM files of each of the 6 databases in the old program. The "zip" the GEDCOM files, using PKZip or WinZip. That should make the files small enough to fit on a floppy disk. Then transfer the .zip files from the floppies to your new machine; "unzip" them, then "import" the resulting GEDCOM's into your new CFT. SgtGeorge