Charts — Concepts

Information in Pedigree Forge lives in two places:

• The database holds names, dates, places, and relationships. Changes here affect every chart on which a person appears.
• Chart settings control how a person or family is displayed in a particular chart — positioning, width, detail level, and so on. These are changed in chart editing mode and apply only to that chart.

To enter editing mode, select a chart and click Edit Chart on the Charts tab.

ID numbers

Every person has an ID (e.g. I5) and every family has an ID (e.g. F2). These are shown in teal when editing a chart. A family consists of one or more parents and optionally their children.

People belong to the family in which they are a child and to one or more families in which they are a spouse or partner. For example, Charles Robert Darwin is a child in family F2 and a partner in family F1.

ID numbers are useful for identifying people when editing chart settings, though you do not need to enter them directly for most operations.