The term “Archive” is used in Pedigree Forge to indicate somewhere that keeps source documents. This might range from a large institution, like the National Archives in Kew, or your own person box of papers passed down through the family.
Archives can either be added “on the fly”, from the “Select Archive” dialog, as shown in the section on working with sources, or from their own editing panel. The archive editing panel is accessed from the “museum” icon, located on the main action bar that runs down the left-hand side Pedigree Forge’s main window:
Selecting the archives panel will show a table at the top of the archives already in the project. Clicking on one of these will make it the selected archive, so its information can be added. The buttons in the top-right hand side of the table can be used to add or delete an archive:
For most archives, only the “Name” is needed.
The use of brackets in the name is important: the text inside is used as the short abbreviation in reports. So, for example, “General Register Office (GRO)” will be abbreviated to GRO when it is used more than once in report citations.