Some information, for example, names, dates of birth, who they married, etc. resides in the database, and is changed there through editing the person’s facts and attributes in the database. This would show through on any charts on which they appear.
Other settings are about the display of that person in a particular family chart, or the parameters of what belongs in a particular chart, and this is changed when a chart is in editing mode.
To edit a chart (enter edit mode), use the “Edit Chart” button from the “Charts” tab of Pedigree Forge.
Every person in the database has an ID number. If they are created in Pedigree Forge (and most of the time if the data is imported from a GEDCOM file), the ID of a person will start with the letter “I” and include a number. For example, “I5”.
These numbers are shown when editing charts in teal. The current person being edited is highlighted on the chart. In the following example, Robert Waring Darwin is the current person, and his ID number is I15. His wife, Susannah Wedgewood, has the ID I16.
“Families” also have an ID number. A family consist of one or more parent and optionally, any number of children. Family ID numbers usually being with an F, and are followed by a number.
In the above example, the family of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood is F2. This also includes their children: Marianne, Caroline, Erasmus, Charles Robert and Emily.
People belong to both the family in which they are a child, and one or more families in which they are a spouse/partner. Charles Robert Darwin is a child in family F2 and a partner in family F1.
ID numbers are often useful to refer to particular people or families when editing charts, although you don’t need to use them directly.