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The X!Family Screenbook

Version 0.14
Last Updated 2003-11-21

Andy Waddington

family-maint/at/absolutelynospam.pennine.demon.co.uk

Principal Developer: Andy Waddington

Loosely Based on !Family 2.18 for RISC OS by Dennis Howes,
now developed in parallel. The User interface of v 2.26 for RISC OS most closely resembles current versions of X!Family.

Copyright © 2003 by Andy Waddington

This screenbook describes an X!Family version some time in the future beyond 0.14

X!Family is a Genealogy database (GEDCOM) editor and browser for the X desktop. It implements version 5.3 of GEDCOM, but respects some syntax from earlier versions of the GEDCOM standard.


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The main display window
3. The Person editing dbox
4. The Family Event editing dbox
5. The Preferences dbox
6. Searching for a person: Name completion dbox
7. Miscellaneous dboxes
Appendix A. F.A.Q. list
Appendix B. GEDCOM files
Appendix C. Obtaining, Installing, Compiling, Porting X!Family
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