>1. Navigation >The new version depends too much on the mouse, - I hate mices. >A mouse may be useful for some editing, reordering or drag and drop >functions. All normal selections should be possible by means of simple >keystrokes. Use single keys whenever possible, f.inst. ESC instead of >ALT-C. INSERT instead of ALT-I, PageUp/Arrow UP instead of ALT up etc. >The keys should be consistent throughout the various screens. I see that a lot of you are like me. I don't like to use the mouse all the time either. >2. Family group. >I do not see any information in the blank area between Marr and SEX. Icons appear here indicating media, notes, sources attached. >I like to have information about adoptions or relation parents/children >directly on the family screen. Also if other than natural parents a letter of adopted type will appear in the blank area. >The pop up screen Parents shows all the parents, but I would like to be able >to see the relation to the child. There should be some "icons" - letters - showing whether the parent is Natural, Adopted, Foster, or other. Are you saying you don't see any such thing? >4. Story tab. >I do not quite see the use of this, apart from being a debugging tool. >What is the intention? Is it a preview of a printout? >The Misc.Data are often not shown. I'm curious as to other users opinions about this? I thought that perhaps this was one on-line window where you could read all info about the Key Individual. And you can also jump to anyone shown to see their story. >5. Edit Individual. >The switching to the Edit screen flashes. >I again see a blank area between Event and Sur without any information. >A lot of my Placenames has disappeared, they are erroneously converted to >Adresses in the conversion from vers.2, - please do not do that. >I would like the screen to show if an Event is marked Sensitive. Again, blank area has icons for notes, sources, whether the event is single or family event. Do you not see icons??? >6. Edit Event. >The Misc.Data does'nt show up in the story. >I expected that the purpose of the Free Format was to provide a modification >of the standard format for this specific event. >The actual function is not much different from what the Misc.Data does, so >is it really needed? The difference between "Free Format Date" and "Misc Data". Both are lesser used fields. The intention of the Free Format date is to enter a date that may not fit the standard - such as "Christmas 1997" or some old Latin Holy Day names that you might find in medieval Europe. Also usefully for entering "time" of event. The Misc Data varies depending on the event. For many religious events it is meant to include the name of the person who performed the rite. Thus they both get used differently in a story sentence and both are needed. >7. Name Search. >I have many persons with the same name. The new display makes it too >difficult to find the right one, - vers.2 was much easier to use. >The screen should show at least birth/chr. and placename, possibly also >death/buri. >The IRN is of secondary importance and could very well be moved to the new >information field. >The namedisplay does not always start with the Key person. The NameSearch starts with the person who you stopped with last search. I guess I hear you saying that you prefer it always start on top? > >8. Wittness Event. >This is a most interesting new facility, but... >I am offered to register that person A witnessed an event at person B, but >that is really NOT what I need to do. >I want to register who witnessed the event of person B and that is not quite >the same. >A typical case is Witnesses to a Baptism and there may be as many as 5-7 >Witnesses. These people are furthermore often known by name only and it is >not always easy at the first moment to identify them precisely. Ok. I see what you say about the direction of creating a witness event. However, not sure what I would do if you didn't attach someone already in the database as a witness to the event. >10. Sources. >I am glad to be able to register more than one source. >But I am confused about the new Source details. >What I would like to see is a Source information which in accordance with >Gedcom is divided into two parts: >- The Source Record itself with a Source Descriptive Text >- Details about the Source as related to the specific Event. > >The Event will have a pointer to a Source Record placed in a Source List. >Following this pointer is a Note field with details related to both the >Source Record and its specific use for this Event. This Source Note will >give supplementing information about the Source, but it belongs to the >Event, not to the Source. > >Example: >The Birth points to the Source Record "Personal Records" >The Source Note field contains "Birth Certificate" and it tells how the >Source Record relates to this specific Event. What you describe here sounds exactly like what I did. The Reference is the Source Record itself (the name of a book). The Detail is a detail for a specific event (such as the page number of the book). However, in CFT-Win 3 you can use the specific detail for more than one event. Thanks, 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