8. PRINT-OUTS

PRINT SCREEN AND PRINTER SETUP

The Print screen command prints the current screen (a picture of the current screen) to the printer in graphical format. The capacity of the printer affects the quality and speed of the printout.

You can check and change your default printer, if necessary. New printers are added by clicking Printers in the Windows Control Panel.

In the Reports menu, you can print different listings using the desired Windows font. The printouts can also be directed to the screen, in which case Sukujutut prints out an ASCII file called lista.txt. The printout option Descendants also prints out the main person’s spouses and their parents.

REPORTS

FAMILY BOOK

The family book, which is a listing of the descendants of a person, presents the information in a table format, which is common in genealogy. When starting to create the list, you can define how many generations, starting from the main person, should be printed. The main person represents generation 1, and the children generation 2, and so forth. If you do not want to print a particular branch of the family, the number of the person in question can be entered in the print startup view. A separate table is also printed for a childless family. The family book will contain information about other spouses of the main person’s spouse in the table, including the time of the marriages. You can exclude the term ”Moved” from the family book by typing a space at the beginning of the word. The preview does not look similar to the output on paper, but the information is still the same in both. You can also rename the family book file, for instance, according to the main person (the default name is lista.*).

Most of the startup settings of a family book are saved, which makes it easier and faster to start the printing. The settings are saved into the sukujut.ini file.

The cover page and the index can be printed if desired, the index can either with one or two columns. In the case of two columns, the index will contain only names and table numbers, and, if there is space, the years of birth. In a one-column index, the time and place of birth is printed as well. In addition to an index of surnames, you can also print one of Other names. There are two additional options that you can select before printing a family book to change the layout. The first one enables you to print the surnames in capital letters, and the second one prevents repeating the same surname in the index.

Pictures are printed out in a family book if you have selected the Photos additional print option. The pictures must be stored in the same folder as the suku.idx file. A picture is saved with a person’s card number, using the file name extension *.bmp (or *.rle or *.dib). If you use RTF style files, you can also use picture formats *.tif, *.jpg and *.gif. In an Htm printout, only formats *.jpg and *.gif are applicable. For instance, the picture of person number 5 is named 5.bmp. The print quality of pictures in an RTF style file is better when printed through Word than when printed directly to a printer.

You can select to print a foreword to a family book before the first table. Create a card with “FOREWORD” as the given name and the main person’s surname as the surname. Type the desired foreword or introduction to the person notes in the card. You enter the number of the card in the startup view of the printout.

The location of the term ”Table” in a family book can be defined with the additional setting Space in table. The default value is two empty lines before ”Table” and then a name. If the setting is selected, the printout will include one empty line, ”Table”, one empty line and the name.

In problem situations, you can re-print the family book as necessary as follows: select Continue from interrupted from the additional options, mark the start page and the start table. The page must be one starting with a new table. You can also print out individual pages by using a page number range.

If you print out a family book by using a specific number of generations, you can print the number of children for the families in the last generation to be printed. You can select this printout method in the additional print options for a family book.

Using the ? character in Sukujutut has the following effect on the family book: Typing ? to the given name and surname of an unknown spouse skips this person in the family book; typing ? to the time of marriage skips the marriage, spouse and common-law marriage in the family book; typing ? to the time of death prints it as d. in the family book; typing it to divorce prints the text divorce to the family book.

The progress of the family book printout is shown at the lower half of the window. The current table and the number of page and persons is shown.

You can print field-specific notes and sources to the family book for surnames, times and places of birth, and times and places of death. This information is useful for the researcher; it allows, for example, checking whose times of birth have been verified from birth records.

LIST OF PERSONS

Prints out either all persons or the descendants of the main person with their spouses in accordance with the surnames, places of birth or card numbers. The list can be limited with the first characters in the places of birth.

AGE DISTRIBUTION

Prints out the age distribution of either all persons or the descendants of the main person with their spouses. This way you can estimate the average age of men and women in different lines of the family.

TABLE OF ANCESTORS

Prints out the ancestors of the main person as a table of ancestors. You can define a print range by delimiting the number of generations. If you have a color printer, the boxes and lines for men are printed in blue, for women in red, and text is printed in black. The text includes given names, surnames and other names, professions, birth and death information and marriage information for women. In addition to this, you can also print a cover page. The surnames and other names are printed in capital letters. The names of the ancestors can be printed in alphabetical order after the table of ancestors.

TABLES OF ANCESTORS

Prints out the ancestors of the main person in tables of ancestors. You can define a print range by delimiting the number of generations and other criteria similar to those in the printout of a family book.

ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE

Prints out the addresses of either all persons or the descendants and spouses of the main person. Only those persons are printed out that have addresses. If you wish to print out labels for annual members, for example, print out a list of addresses and telephone numbers into an RTF file and name the file address.RTF. This file serves as a source for label printout. Open a new document in, for instance, Word and select Tools and Merge Documents. Create a main document in the active window and select address labels. Open the source and select address.RTF. Prepare the main document and select the desired label type. After this, you can view the labels with the Merge function and print them out. Deceased persons are not included in the list of addresses and telephone numbers even if they had address information saved.

PRINT PROBLEM REPORT

The problem report contains information of persons that are not direct members of the family. Sukujutut starts reading the information for the report from the main person in the Family notes view. First, it reads all ancestors of the person, then all descendants with their spouses. The parents and ancestors of the spouses and their children are also checked. The printed list contains information about all unconnected persons (cards) or families that are not members of the main person in any way. The persons are printed in alphabetical order. The consistency of the number of children and spouses is verified in connection with creating a problem report. Sukujutut attempts to find possible erroneous connections, like persons with the same father and mother. You can also have Sukujutut verify the sex of the persons and find looped connections (persons connected to themselves).

Sukujutut also verifies the age of the mother and father at the birth of a child and prints out all persons whose entries deviate from the allowed age range defined in the Parameters view.

BORN ON SAME DAY

The objective of the list is to find persons that have been entered twice with different numbers. The printed list includes persons of the same sex and born on the same day. Moreover, you can also use a print range by delimiting the number of persons with the first characters in their given names (0–10 characters).

BIRTHDAYS

The Birthdays listing is a printout of the time of birth, name and age for all living persons. Persons over 110 years old are excluded from the printout. All persons or the descendants of the main person with their spouses can be included in the list. All persons with their 50th, 55th, 60th, 65th, 70th, 75th, 80th, 85th, 90th, 95th, 100th, 105th and 110th anniversary in the current year will be printed in bold.

ANCESTOR PATH

The entries of the persons between the selected ancestor and the main person are printed in the ancestor path. This list can also be printed in an RTF and HTM file.

You can define with print options whether the children of the ancestors are printed and whether the word ”Table” is printed before the ancestors. You can manually enter the table numbers in the person’s family book here.

LIST OF MISSING INFORMATION

The List of missing information aids you in finding out unrecorded information like names, births, deaths or marriages. This listing also includes incomplete times of birth, death and marriage.

FAMILY FORMS

The Family forms command prints out pre-filled Family table forms. When the family changes, you start a new page. The forms can be handed out to relatives and members of a family association to be completed. The default printout range is three generations.

FAMILY REPORT

The Family report command prints out the parents and spouses of the person, including their parents and children with their spouses. The printout formats include RTF and HTM. The family notes, if any, are printed to a family report before the children’s entries.

DESCENDANTS

The Descendants command prints out a list of descendants with suitable indentations. You can define the number of generations. The information of the spouses can also be printed, if necessary. The descendants can be printed in graphical format, as boxes. To do this, you need to select the Frame option. The frame is printed only directly to the printer, not to a file.

ANCESTOR CHART

Prints out the ancestors of the person in the Central window in the form of an Ancestor chart for 5 generations. If you need an empty ancestor chart, the Central window must be empty.

ANCESTOR CHART 7 GENERATIONS

Prints out an Ancestor chart containing 7 generations for the main person. The chart consists of three A4-sized sheets of paper, which you can then fasten next to each other.

QUESTIONNAIRE

The Questionnaire can be used to collect information from the members of a family. You can print out several empty questionnaire forms at a time by defining the desired number of copies as the number of pages. The textual information can be modified in the Questionnaire view before starting the printout. For instance, you can indicate the family for which you are collecting the information.

FAMILY TREE

The list contains the names of the ancestors, children and grandchildren of the person in the Central window in the form of a family tree.

FAMILY FORM

The Family form command creates a pre-filled form named lista.rtf. The form contains information about spouses, their children and parents. You can send this form to relatives to be filled by, for instance, e-mail.

MEMBER CATALOG

The Member catalog command prints out the names and addresses, family association and member data, dates of birth and anniversaries, if any, of persons alive. You can set a print range by delimiting the family societies and membership types. If a person has an Other name, it is printed first, followed by the surname in parentheses.

THE SAME SPOUSE IS STORED WITH TWO DIFFERENT NUMBERS

The list contains the names of the persons who are stored as spouses with two different numbers. It is possible; if you transfer the GEDCOM data and dates of birth are different

THE SAME child IS STORED WITH TWO DIFFERENT NUMBERS

The list contains the names of the persons who are stored as children with two different numbers.

Separate individuals and families

The list contains the names of the persons who have no strings to the family.

printing of stickers

Program can also create a csv-file which is easy to export to Excel for further editing.

children birth interval

This print-out lists children with birth interval (same mother) shorter than the limit user has set. This helps to find incorrect birthdays.