FHS Extended Options for Registered Users

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NOTE: All of the options previously distributed only in the registered version of the program are now a part of the freely and publicly distributed Windows version of the program.

Many of the options that were previously provided to registered users as system extensions have now been made a part of the publicly distributed version of the software. Those options include ancestor, descendant and relative summary reports, a relationship calculator and a MailMerge export program. Now, the extended options provided to registered users are those that create Index Files, allowing you to process records in sorted sequence, and two additional programs that rely upon Index Files for their operation.

Index Files and Indexed Reports
The way that records are processed in sorted sequence in the Family History System is through the use of Index Files. An Index File is just a list of all Name Record ID numbers placed in a special sequence. A program that needs to process family records in a special sequence will just read a previously created Index File in which the ID numbers are in that sequence. One of the Extended Options allows the user to create Index Files by sorting the records on combinations of the following fields:

• Surname and Given Name
• Birth Date and Place
• Death Date and Place
• (most recent) Marriage Date
• Gender Code

The special reports that can be printed using index files include:

• Indexes for other Reports and Charts - for instance, one such index would be a surname sequenced listing of all relatives referenced in a Relative Report, with the page and line number of each reference in the Relative Report;
• Lists of information for Selected Records (depending on the information that is chosen to be included and the sequence that is used, these could be Address Lists, Birthday Lists, Anniversary Lists)
• Surname Summary Reports - which show accumulated statistics for records that have the same surname (statistics can include, #Males, #females, range of birth years, range of Death years, etc.)
• Tiny Tafel lists - which is a way of sharing research interests with others

In addition, the Family Group report programs provide for printing Group reports (either individually or Merged into a single report) in "Indexed Sequence" using an Index File, and Index Files can be used to export records in sorted sequence to GEDCOM or MailMerge datasets.