Pedigree Forge User Guide
Welcome
Quick Start Guide
Getting Started
Adding people and navigating
Saving your project
People
Editing People
Facts and events
Facts and Events
Places vs address
Likelihood
Ages
Fact citations
Fact subtypes
Fact time
Fact cause
Fact note
Person or couple facts and events
Available facts
Custom facts
Witnesses to facts and events
Spouses and children
Multiple partners or spouses
Arranging children
Deleting and unlinking
Deleting people from the project
Unlinking people from spouses or parents
Editing visually via the family chart
Couple Status
Husband or wife
Multiple facts that only usually occur once
Names
Personal names
Nicknames
Known by second given name
Call name
Surname variants
Surname certainty
Alias names
Translated names
Formal titles, name prefixes and suffixes
Uncertain parentage
Parental linkage
Twins and multiple births
Adopted persons
Including sex on family charts
Pronouns
Gender and sex
Associations between people
Dates
Dates
Dates-General Register Office Quarters
Dates-Decades
Dates-During the reign of
Dates-School and legal periods
Dates-Gregorian vs Julian
Dates-First Day of New Year
Dates-French Republican Calendar
Dates-Hebrew Calendar
Dates-Before the Common Era
Places
Places
Places-Custom Places
Places-Which County
Custom Places-Advanced
Charts
Charts-Getting started
Charts-Concepts
Charts-Everyone (all-in-one) charts
Charts-Basic positioning and width
Charts-Stacking siblings
Charts-Sibling curl back
Charts-Staggered siblings
Charts-Bunched siblings
Charts-Sibling out of sequence
Charts-Family double drop
Charts-Overlapping family bar
Charts-Default detail
Charts-Specific detail
Charts-Showing or hiding surnames
Charts-Person notes
Charts-Tucking children under their parents
Charts-Folding spouses
Charts-Auto compact spouse groups
Charts-Boxed layout and auto layout
Charts-Constraining who appears
Charts-Step family detail
Charts-Text instead of kids
Charts-From arrow
Charts-Direct line
Charts-Line of interest
Charts-Starting with multiple people
Charts-Row height and top offset
Charts-Title, key and labels
Charts-Divorced or never married
Charts-Uncertain relationships
Charts-Uncertain facts
Charts-Killed in action
Charts-Stillborn children
Charts-Died without issue or never married
Charts-Twins and multiple births
Charts-Highlighting duplicate people
Charts-Drawing objects and pictures
Chart styles
Charts-Birth brief charts
Charts-Ancestor charts
Charts-Fan and circular charts
Charts-Hybrid charts
Charts-Timeline charts
Charts-Printing and exporting
Sources
Sources
Creating a source
Source citations
Source local citations
Source images
Source image editor
Source transcripts
Source transcripts (advanced)
Source transcript markdown
Working efficiently with sources
Creating children from census transcripts
Archives
Sources-how accessed
Source groups
Source backlinks
Sources-Published books
Sources-Abbreviations
Source templates
Web Browser
Web browser
Web searches
Web browser tricks
Reports
Reports
Create a report
Report Items-AncestorChapters
Report Items-FamilyChapter
Report Items-PersonChapter
Report Items-NoteLink
Report Items-Sources
Report Items-References
Report Items-Chart and SingleChart
Report Items-Other
Report Items-Image or ImageInGallery
Report Configuration
Rich Text Editor
Auditing and validation
Queries
User tags
To do lists
Project configuration
Document vs database mode
Spell checking and hyphenation
Contacts
Media gallery
Updating Pedigree Forge
AI
AI assistant
Setting up an AI provider
Using the AI chat
Getting the best out of AI
Scripting
Scripts
Script Gizmos
Running scripts from the command line
Importing and Exporting
Importing and exporting
Importing from GEDCOM
Exporting to GEDCOM
Appendix
Query Language Reference
Source Template Format Reference
Scripting API Reference
Data Expressions Reference
Gizmos Widget Reference