HELP - TREE - BLANK TREE

*Unique ID #'s will be issued in numerical order as you add people to your tree.

To build a new tree from scratch you can do the following:

1. Double click on "START" (Cell A12) to open up the "PRIMARY" input form.

2. Enter the first person's details & then hit "SAVE" to add them to the tree and unlock all the other Tree worksheet options. See PRIMARY INPUT for more details on this form.

*By default the first person added will become the Primary Person and the designated Home Person. The Primary Person is always highlighted in yellow. All relationships (father, mother, spouse, child) shown are respective to this Primary Person.

To continue building your tree you can either:

3a. Add a new person who will be linked to the current Primary Person by double clicking on a relationship option, "FATHER", "MOTHER", "SPOUSE", "CHILD". Each option will open up an input form. Add the applicable details then press save.  Click on the relationship to see more details on each input form.

*It's more efficient to enter Spouses BEFORE children. 

OR

3b. Add a new person who is not an immediate family member of the current Primary Person by double clicking on "NEW". 

*This new person will become the new Primary Person when saved.

4. Repeat step 3a until the Primary Person's immediate family is entered.

5. Change the Primary Person to the next person you want to add family members for. To make someone new the Primary Person - do the following:

• Double click on a person's Name
• Double click on a person's ID
• Double click on "HOME" option (Cell A2)
• Double click on "SEARCH" option (Cell X2)

*See NAVIGATING for more details on changing the Primary Person.

6. After switching the Primary Person you can repeat steps 3a - 5 to build your Tree up or down.

*The order you build your tree is ultimately up to you