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1. Yahrzeit List A new report showing the days of death Yahrzeit for the members of the family during the year You can choose to include the deceased from the entire family database or only from the checked persons equal to to the population marked for the monthly calendar report Can be saved in HTML format Note For Yahrzeit in Adar see Note for Calendar above Pages of Testimony Automatically prepares pages about Holocaust victims in a format defined by Yad Vashem The information must be completed by submissioner before printing the page The pages are in PDF format and demands that you have Adobe Reader installed e Name Reading List Preparing a list of Holocaust victims to be read out at yearly commemoration ceremonies Similar to the name reading lists beeing prepared by Yad VaShem e Export to Excel The whole family file or From current person can be saved in Microsoft Excel 5 and above fields to be chosen by the user The feature offers Excel proficient users to generate their own reports create graphic charts or compute statistics Check boxes have been added for automatically selecting the fields relevant for statistics or relevant contact information suitable for beeing copied to the Outlook Address Book The names of the columns in the Excel worksheet actually the first row are technical but self explanatory e Print Main Screen A printout of the DoroTree Main Screen including the deta2. Then choose the Add or Edit Spouse button 3rd from the left or use the Add or Edit spouse menu item in the edit menu to invoke the dialog box From this dialog box you can press the Add another spouse button to add more spouses The Add or Edit spouse dialog box is where you can choose which spouse to view currently on the Main Screen and it is where you can designate the default spouse to be shown on the Main Screen and on reports When a person has more than one spouse a head of the opposite sex is shown above the person s details on the Main Screen 10 The Holocaust Symbol x To identify people who perished during the Holocaust we have designated a special symbol a Magen David six edged star with a J as in Jude Jew in the middle symbolizing the yellow star many Jews had to wear during the Nazi regime in Europe during World War Il You can click the Holocaust button in the Add Edit Person dialog box When printing a report you have the option of printing this symbol adjacent to a person s name 11 The Death Symbol The Death Symbol has been changed to a small black dot When printing a report you have the option of printing this symbol adjacent to a deceased person s name The Holocaust symbol will overwrite the Death symbol 12 Changing User Interface Language Click the globe on the menu bar or use the Maintenance Select Language menu item to change between English Hebrew French Spanish and Portuguese use
3. an ActiveX might be unsafe The activex has not yet been authenticated To see the tree you will have to press Yes The web page can be seen in the Internet Explorer version 5 5 or above Please be patient and wait for the page to download If you cannot read the Hebrew text press the Fix Hebrew button The Find button performs a full search on the details of the tree and jumps to the first found box You can send the folder with all the files by email to your relatives or put the files on a website If the receipient has no DoroTree installed he will be prompted to download the required components If he has no Hebrew fonts installed and your tree contains Hebrew characters he should download and install the DoroTree font as well see link at the bottom of the web page In order to see the tree the receipient must set his security level to Low Tools Internet Options Security Custom Level Note 1 Presently pictures will not be displayed when viewed from a web site Therefore do not include pictures in the trees to be posted at a web site The pictures increase the download time considerably Note 2 Lately many receipients do not succeed to see the trees after all due to new security measures introduced by the internet providers DoroTree is working on this problem and hope to come up with a solution shortly 18 Hints and Advice e Start your family tree by clicking on the Edit Current Pe
4. members Make the other spouse the current person and press the Edit Current Person icon and then add children using the Add Child icon 4th from the left To add parents click on the relevant parent window This moves the parents into the middle section of the screen and one of them becomes the current record You can now press the Edit Current Person icon and enter the details of the highlighted parent in the Add Edit Person dialog box Please read the explanations about the Main Screen page xx and Adding a Person page xx We strongly recommend that you read at least the following subjects in the online Help How to start using DoroTree Planning your family tree Adding a person Navigating through the family tree Launch the Help file by clicking the icon last icon on the Main Screen or choose the Help file icon from DoroTree s program folder Did you update from DoroTree version 1 55 If you have DoroTree files from version 1 55 they will be automatically converted to DoroTree version 2 files when opened File Open Family Tree DoroTree saves a backup copy for you of the old file adding _old155 to the name of the file Note You cannot open and convert more than one version 1 55 file in the same DoroTree session To do so you will have to close DoroTree and open it again before you open the next family file Do you already have a family database There is an alternative way to start your D
5. titled Setup Type if you want to install the program on another disk or in a different directory folder In the 5th dialog box of the installation program titled Setup Type you can choose the following three setup options 1 Typical Choose this option to install all the components included in DoroTree This is the recommended option for most users 2 Compact Choose this option to install DoroTree without the Hebrew Help file and the Kaluach calendar This option uses the minimum amount of disk space 3 Custom Choose this option to invoke another screen after you press the Next button On the following screen titled Select Components you can manually choose which options to install This option is for advanced users Files Check this option to install the files If you choose the Custom Setup Type you are presented with a choice of at least 3 components 1 DoroTree Application needed to run DoroTree 2 Kaluach Civil Hebrew Calendar Check this option to install this software for using a Hebrew calendar It is a third party component included for your benefit 3 Hebrew Help file Check this option to install the Hebrew Help file readable only with Hebrew versions of Windows Clear this option if you are using non Hebrew Windows After setup finishes you must reboot your computer Failure to do so may prevent DoroTree from executing properly Note Your DoroTree program works in practically all commonly used Window
6. use the subfolders System or DoroTree_Temp located under your DoroTree directory These are internal folders to be used only by the program Each time you subsequently start DoroTree it opens the Main Screen of the last family file used displaying the last current person The installation of DoroTree provides you with a sample family tree file called DTdemo dte to be found in the DoroTree default directory To open the sample file click the Open Family Tree menu item under the File menu and select the DTdemo dte file You are free to play around and update the sample file as much as you like and at any time How to Get Started When you launch the program for the first time you will get DoroTree s Main Screen devoid of any personal data The default current record will be for a male person The Husband s Details heading is highlighted in red To make the female person the current record click on the Wife s Details and its heading changes to red Start your family tree by clicking on the Edit Current Person icon second from the left The Add Edit Person dialog box for the current record person pops up and you can enter the personal data Alternatively instead of clicking the icon you may double click the white text area of the current record Press the Save File button first icon from left and you have saved the first member of the family in DoroTree s database Usually you continue immediately by adding family
7. If the text in this manual is too small write an email to dt support dorotree com and we will try to help Doro tree User s Guide August 2007 Version 2 1 English Table of Contents by chapter ONO Oh ON How to Install DoroTree General Concept and Features How to Start Using DoroTree The Main Screen The Tabs The Icon Bar Adding or Updating Marriage Details Multiple Spouses The Holocaust Symbol The Death Symbol Changing User Interface Changing Date Setup Reports Typing Hebrew Pictures in the Family Trees Website File Generator Hints and Advice Entering your Tree into the Family Tree of the Jewish People Frequently Asked Question How to Contact DoroTree 1 How to Install DoroTree If you are installing DoroTree for the first time please go to next paragraph Standard Installation of Version 2 Upgrading from DoroTree version 1 55 In principle you install the upgrade the same way you install the full version of DoroTree The default procedure installs DoroTree version 2 in the folder directory C Dorotree and overrides deletes the previous version 1 5 if you initially installed it in the default folder as recommended at time of installation Recommendation It is recommended but not necessary to first uninstall the previous DoroTree version using Windows standard utility for removing programs to be found in Windows Control Panel under Settings The un
8. a Page of Testimony for submission to the Hall of Names of Yad Vashem Israel s National Holocaust Memorial Museum 14 Find Person Opens the Find Person dialog box where you can search for people based on name approximate spelling of surname Soundex or partial text in a number of fields using the Search button 15 Help This icon opens the online Help file where you can find more information on how to use DoroTree f you do not have an updated Help file for the language you use visit our Updates page http www dorotree com patches html to check if there is a service package patch available for your present version 7 Adding or Updating a Person After invoking the Add Edit Person dialog box you may start entering or changing the information Every person needs a surname in I English Hebrew or both If you do not know the surname we recommend you type in Unknown The program will also accept or other signs if you insist If sm s you know that a person never had a __smsiominose surname we recommend you to use a sign dash hyphen x C Male Female The program offers a write ahead a feature completing surnames and places Hee im aem sos after partial typing in For this feature it uses an internal table containing names previously entered by you Pressing the arrow button between the two First Name text b
9. current record The heading of the currently selected person is always red Only Husbana s Details Wife s Details and Marriage Details can be current boxes The Edit Current Person icon operates for all 7 tabs 3 Add or Edit Spouse This icon opens a dialog box where you can add choose or edit multiple spouses for a person 4 Add Child This icon opens the Add Edit Person dialog box This dialog box can also be invoked by double clicking on an empty child box 5 Ancestor Report This icon opens the ancestor report using the latest used layout The layout can be changed from the Reports Ancestor menu only You can choose between Vertical and Horizontal layout and displaying pictures in the report or not Use the Settings Fields to include menu to change the contents of the report or Settings Generations to change the number of generations displayed With your mouse you can move the position of a person s text box in the report Double clicking on a person will return you to the Main Screen with the person you clicked on displayed as the current person 6 Descendant report This icon opens the descendant report The layout can be changed from the Reports Descendant menu only You can choose between Boxes with or without pictures and Lines layout The report has the same user options as the Ancestor Report 7 DoroTree Report This icon opens the DoroTree report This report shows immediate family of the chosen person We recom
10. e Medical Notes Picture Data for each current person is divided into 7 tabs or pages Clicking on a Tab will display a summary of the information entered for this tab To update the information or to see all of it double click on the tab or click on the Edit Current Person icon A tab where the label has an asterisc after its label contains user entered information When navigating between people the tabs always revert to the Name tab Name The Name tab is where you enter a person s name date and place of birth date and place of death and cemetery Address The Address tab is where you enter a person s address email home page URL web site address phone and fax numbers Info The Info tab is a section where you enter customized information that you want to categorize in separate fields At your disposal are ten fields in English and ten in Hebrew The first 5 field titles are set to Current Last Name Former names A k a Alias or Also Known As Occupation and PFN and their 4 first counterparts in Hebrew The other five six in Hebrew are called Information 1 6 Information 1 is prepared for the Personal Family Number PFN but can be changed by the user From the Label Titles button or from the Maintenance Rename Info Labels menu you can customize the titles of the latter six fields Note If you are using a database file from an earlier DoroTree version the six fields may have been called Infor
11. e Set Pictures Folder to be found in the Maintenance menu To use the Set Pictures Folder option all the images must be in the same private folder on the harddisk The Keep current multimedia locations should be marked in the Gedcom export when you for technical or other reasons are performing a Gedcom export and import to yourself In DoroTree version 2 1 you can include one picture per person in the tree reports The picture that will appear in the tree is the one with a black spot in the option button To change the picture simply mark a different option button and that picture will be entered in the tree report In DoroTree version 2 1 you will find a new report called Full Report In the Full Report you have the option of including all the pictures available for all persons in the report Source The first six tabs will show a Source button when in Edit mode which enables you to add details about the source of the data you have entered for this particular tab 6 The Icon Bar HLE ekehe HORDES E The Main Screen has 15 icons to help you perform the most frequent tasks without a need to open menus and choose items from a list 1 Save File This icon saves your data so that you do not loose new data if your PC gets stuck It saves the file under the current file name Remember to save your file frequently when working continously 2 Edit Current Person This icon opens the Add Edit dialog box for the
12. en Family Finder You can read more about these services if you follow the links in our special link menu see Help Jewish genealogy sites If you do not read Hebrew you can change the right hand side fields to display Hebrew or Jewish names and dates in Latin characters To do so press the Maintenance Right Hand Field Setup menu item The program will convert and transliterate the dates However you will have to type the Hebrew Yiddish first names by yourself 3 How to Start Using DoroTree Launching DoroTree for the First Time The first time you launch DoroTree using the DoroTree shortcut icon created on your desktop or from the DoroTree group under Start Programs you will be asked to select the user interface language of your choice You can later change the user interface language by clicking the Globe icon at the end of the menu bar The program will then display the ntroduction dialog box telling you how to get started Upon closing the Introduction you will be presented with DoroTree s Registration dialog box Please follow the instructions and register already when you use the program the first time this is your guarantee to receive technical support and special offers for upgrades etc in the future Upon finalizing the registration you will be presented with the DoroTree Main Screen Start by invoking the edit dialog box in order to fill in the fields for the first person in your family tree If
13. ils of the persons as shown 15 Typing Hebrew If you do not have Hebrew Windows then each data input dialog box will have a Keyboard button at the bottom right which brings up the on screen virtual keyboard when clicked on If the Keyboard button is missing go to sub menu item Hebrew Handling in the a al alr Maintenance menu and press Show Keyboard f 5 ip The letters of the Aleph Bet are arranged in alphabetical v olajn order to make data entry easier To use it invoke the hlplx a Keyboard by clicking on the Keyboard button then click on Dl aln w the Hebrew field you want to enter data into and use your Bl vial mouse to click on the appropriate letters C 2 Hint Civil dates can be entered into the English side and amp converted to Hebrew dates in Hebrew characters using the Convert Date button see page 13 You can also type in Hebrew from your keyboard The input follows the layout of a standard Hebrew English keyboard Hebrew characters you can change the right hand side to display cw Latin characters using sri the Maintenance Right Hand Field Setup menu item If you don t plan to use al le s lsk fa fe fa 2 4 7 Months can then be entered and displayed in Latin letters and days and years in regular digits e g 24 Tevet 5746 DoroTree spells the Hebrew m
14. install procedure does not delete neither the Dorotree folder nor your family files files with the extension dfe Still we always advise you to make a private copy of your family files before any uninstall or install procedure You should always make a separate private backup copy once in a while preferably on a separate memory medium Standard Installation of Version 2 Insert the DoroTree CD ROM into your CD drive If you have Auto Start enabled the setup program will launch automatically If setup does not launch automatically run setup exe from the CD This can be done by clicking the Start button choosing Run and typing in D setup exe where D represents the drive letter of your CD drive When asked to enter a registration number type in the number you were supplied with usually found on a label on inside or outside cover of DoroTree s box or on an enclosed user registration card DoroTree User no Registration no and Serial no all refer to the same thing Be careful to type in the number exactly as it appears If you typed the number wrongly you may be asked to re enter it when you first launch DoroTree or be limited to 36 persons only The installation program demands a Company Name If you are not a company just type X If you follow our default settings your program will be installed on your C drive in the Dorotree directory Use the Browse option in the 5th dialog box of the installation program
15. mation 4 to 9 and the order may be different The titles can still be customized Lineage The Lineage tab is where you may record information pertaining to a person s lineage There are prepared fields for Cohen Levi and Yisrael as well as a list of different Chasidic groups and space for free text Medical The Medical tab is where you may record a person s medical history in free text In doing so please consider privacy issues Notes The Notes tab is where you may record sundry details about a person such as exciting or interesting episodes that happened to him Pictures The pictures tab is where you include pictures sounds and videos relating to a person You can link using the following file formats Jpeg Gif Tiff Pex Png Bmp Wmf Emf Ico Cur Avi and Wav Note The files themselves are not kept in the DoroTree database file only the links to where they are saved The actual picture audio and video files must be maintained and backed up by the user himself Left click on pictures to blow up the pictures on the screen The pictures can also be viewed and zoomed in the Multimedia dialog box You can transfer your pictures to another DoroTree user by including the picture links in your export mark Export Picture and sending along the pictures themselves as well to the receiver The receiver will import the Gedcom file put the pictures into a folder and then connect the folder to the family file by using th
16. means generations in Hebrew Tree refers to the family tree Question When printing reports do not see the Hebrew correctly Why Answer You may need to update your printer driver Do this from the Start Settings Printers menu on your desktop 21 How to Contact DoroTree Registered users are entitled to receive 90 days free technical support DoroTree may offer paid for technical support also after the Free Support Period Should you need support after this period please check our web site to see if this alternative is available at www dorotree com support html Always check the Frequently Asked Questions in this User s Guide and on our Web site before contacting DoroTree support If possible we prefer you to write email or fax rather than leaving a voice message You may contact DoroTree using the following numbers e Faxinthe US 720 247 0942 or check our web site e In Israel Phone 02 679 7490 Fax 02 679 7470 e Email dt support dorotree co il or check our web site e URL http www dorotree com
17. mend limiting this report to two or three generations in each direction 8 Kinship Calculator This icon opens the Find Person window where you choose a second family member with whom you wish to calculate the level of kinship from Current person The Kinship report can be run from the Reports menu only 9 Outline Report This icon opens the outline report according to Personal Family number PFN or according to Number of Generation Use the Settings menu from the report to customize the report format or to change the fields to include in the report as well as the number of generations displayed Go to the Reports menu to choose between English or Hebrew layout 10 Family Group Sheet This icon opens the Family Group Sheet useful for printing out and sending to relatives for them to fill in and return with updated information 11 Alphabetical Report This icon opens an Alphabetical List with all individuals in your tree The report can be sorted by names or dates 12 Family Calendar This icon opens the current monthly family event calendar You can choose the events and the personal details to be shown in the calendar Jewish holidays can be optionally included You now have the option to individually choose the family members you want to include in the monthly calendar To do this you mark these persons in the Calendar check box which you find in the Add Edit Person dialog box 13 Page of Testimony This icon will create
18. ng Pictures paragraph on page 10 4 The Main Screen The Main Screen displays information You cannot write edit or update information directly on this screen The screen is designed this way to avoid that you will accidentally change data The Main Screen shows a family by presenting the current cule in the middle of the screen including their marriage details The children generation is in the right side column and the parent generation in the left side column Clicking on one of the four parent boxes shifts the entire family to the right and the parents become the current couple The relevant child i e father or mother from the previous couple is now displayed in the children generation along with his her other siblings and the grandparents previously not displayed are now shown as parents Clicking on a child window shifts the entire family to the left and the previous current couple becomes parents This way you can easily navigate between the generations of a family In order to add or change information you have to invoke the Add Edit Person dialog box To do so press the second icon on the left or use the Add Edit Person menu item or double click on the text box of the person you want to edit Data of deceased persons is displayed in black Data of living persons is displayed in color Persons born before 1850 are presumed to be deceased 5 The Tabs Name Address Info Lineag
19. o family members by email as attached files e You can import existing family files from other programs using the GEDCOM file format e f your original tree contains Hebrew characters then use the Special Import option to try and import the Hebrew text properly e f you are adding or updating many personal details in your family file then click the Save icon once in a while e In the Edit menu item you will find the tools for adding deleting connecting or disconnecting personal records Make sure you have saved an extra copy of the family file before you start these manipulations Read Fixing Relationships in the Online Help e You can add an entire family branch to your family file by GEDCOM Import Append to Current Tree You can delete an entire branch with menu item Edit Person Record Remove Branch from Current Person e The larger your family file the longer it will take DoroTree to open and shut down 19 Exporting your Family Tree to Jewish Databases One of the aims of building up a family tree is to find additional branches and relatives and to be able to exchange information with other Jewish genealogists You will find that your personal network of friends and relatives grows consistently while your family tree grows However many hobby genealogists want to do more than that One of the most attractive ways to do this is to make your genealogical research available to as many as possible The best way to do thi
20. onths as follows Nisan lyar Sivan Tammuz Av Elul Tishrei Cheshvan Kislev Tevet Shevat Adar Adar and Adar II 16 Pictures in The Family Trees You can include many pictures for each person but only one picture for each person from your collection in the tree reports The picture that will appear in the tree is the one with the marked radio button To change the picture simply click on an unmarked radio button and that picture will appear in the tree report If no button is marked no picture will be shown for this person To facilitate the report the pictures are automatically resized to max 60x60 pixels To change between trees with or without pictures go to the Reports menu and activate the report from there The Full Report will show all pictures available for a person Note If the report cannot find the picture for any technical reason the report will continue without the picture 17 Website File Generator Prepare and display a tree Ancestor Descendant or DoroTree on the screen Go to File Generate Website Files from the menu and save the files with your chosen file name the file will actually be a folder containing all the files needed to view the tree on the browser To display the tree open the folder outside DoroTree for example from your Explorer Browser by double clicking the html file with the name you gave it in the folder you created earlier You will possibly see a message that
21. or it Question How do print a report with background colours Answer Mark Print Background Colors in the Report Settings box Question How do find a person Answer Use the Index menu item You can then search by name date DT or similar sounding names soundex now also in Hebrew or by partial text in a number of fields using the search button Question What is the DT Answer The DT is the DoroTree identification number Every person is allocated a unique serial number Some people find it easier to differentiate between persons this way especially when several relatives have the same or similar names Question What s the easiest way to transfer family trees between different programs Answer Use the GEDCOM facilities Under the File GEDCOM menu item you have the utilities to import and export family trees See The GEDCOM File on page 8 Question did a GEDCOM import to DoroTree and the Hebrew looks like gibberish what can do Answer Use the Special GEDCOM Import menu item which should correctly copy your Hebrew fields to DoroTree s Hebrew fields Question My Hebrew fields are wrongly shown from left to right How can remedy this Answer Use one of the Maintenance Hebrew Handling menu items Question How do remove people from my database Answer Use the Edit Person Record Remove Person from family tree menu item Question What does DoroTree mean Answer Dorot
22. oroTree family database if you already have a database developed in a different genealogy program such as Family Tree Maker Brother s Keeper llanot Hamishpaha etc In this case you can import the existing database into DoroTree usually without losing information using the GEDCOM utilities as explained in the next paragraph GEDCOM GEDCOM is an internationally accepted standard format for exchanging data between genealogists Most genealogy software programs have a utility for importing and exporting family databases from one program to another In the GEDCOM menu item under the File menu you have five options e Export Build a GEDCOM file from your DoroTree family database e Import New Tree Import a family database from a different program In this case DoroTree will retain the GEDCOM identity numbers generated by the original program e Special Import Attempt to import the Hebrew fields from another program See Frequently Asked Questions starting on page 23 e Append to Current Tree Import and add an external family database into your existing DoroTree family database In this case DoroTree assigns new identity numbers to the new records e Import Report The error report from the import Can only be viewed during the present session of DoroTree and while you are in the current family database Note The GEDCOM functions in DoroTree version 2 1 enable you to copy the links from the Picture tabs see followi
23. ory as this will corrupt your database Never store files in this directory as DoroTree will delete them Question What is the Backup of My Family dte file Answer Every time DoroTree closes it creates a backup copy of your family tree just to be on the safe side Nevertheless you should make your own backup copy once in a while and store it in a separate folder and sometimes in a separate medium such as diskette or recorded CD ROM Use the File Save As menu item for this Don t forget to return to your original family file after that Question How do add my own text to a report Answer Using your mouse draw a square by holding down the left button and moving diagonally After releasing the mouse button click on this square to highlight it then press Enter to invoke the Edit node dialog box to edit the content and format of the box For more details see Adding a text box topic in the online Help file Question Can save my reports Answer Yes Use the File Save As menu item Reports can be reloaded from the File Load From File or File Open Report menu items Loaded files will not necessarily return you to the Main Screen if you double click on a person Question Why don t see all the generations on my tree Answer By default DoroTree will show 6 generations Use the Settings Number of generations menu item in each report to change this default Each report remembers the number you choose f
24. oxes will cause the first name s to be translated to Hebrew if DoroTree recognizes the name and its spelling To change the date format you may right click on one of the two left hand side date fields and choose Date Setup or use the Maintenance Date Setup menu item Pressing one of the arrow buttons between the date boxes will convert the date to or from the Hebrew date If the birth or death occurred between sunset and midnight then press the Sunset button between the date fields The icon will change from a sun icon to a moon icon Pressing the date convert button again will adjust the date accordingly Quick explanation The Jewish day begins at sunset whereas the civil day begins at midnight During the period between sunset and midnight the Jewish date is already the next day while the civil date has not yet changed Note You can enter and convert dates from the beginning of the Jewish calendar Adam and Eve This means that the years before the beginning of the civil calendar are shown as negative 2313 For the negative civil years there are no days and months The Jewish years in Hebrew need the letter for the thousands except for years starting from 5000 Years from 5000 are understood as default To write a Jewish date from before the year 1000 you will have to put the digit 0 before the year The Deceased Symbol candle turns yellow when there is information in any of the fields Death Date Dea
25. r interfaces The user interface refers to the language that shows up in menus and in dialog boxes in the program The data you have entered will not change except for the name of the Twaa im nece month in the date display In version 2 not all menus and other items have yet been translated into Spanish and Portuguese Online Help exists only for English and Hebrew 13 Changing Date Setup From the Maintenance Date bay month year Setup menu you can change the Yas Uv way the date is displayed In the Add Edit Person dialog box you can enter the date in any standard format However you should be aware of the potential misunderstandings between the European and American way of representing dates if you choose not to display the month in letters but as a number The date 12 6 1854 will be interpreted in Europe as June 12 1854 and in the US as December 6 1854 In order to avoid confusion we recommend that you choose to represent the month in characters but it s your choice The spelling of the month depends upon the user interface language chosen Example 05 March 1998 Day Month i 0S e March AS c Mar c 03 ii Year 1998 98 D Separate a e SPACE 14 Reports The following reports are available see also above the explanations on the reports written for the corresponding icons Ancestor Tree A graphic representation of a person s ancestors Offered in vertical or ho
26. r persons deceased in the Jewish month of Adar will be shown in leap years in Adar I If you prefer to mark this in Adar Il you will have to mark the check box found in the Lineage tabs Full Report A new report similar in layout to the Notes report introduced in version 2 1 In this report you can choose to display all information available for a person Go to Settings Report options to customize the report Can be saved in HTML and in RTF Word format without the pictures Notes A printout of all notes referring to the person they belong to Can be saved in HTML format Wedding Anniversaries A list of all wedding anniversaries Kinship Report Shows the family relationship between the Current Person and all other persons in the database within 10 generations or degrees away from the current person or the spouse The calculator tells the kinship between current person and the person chosen within above mentioned limit Bar Bat Mitzva Calculator Displays when the current person s Bar Bat Mitzva occurred or occurs including the weekly Torah portion Only available for persons with a full birth date Based on common halachic conventions Yahrzeit Table A list of when the current person s Yahrzeit falls on the civil calendar The number of years is configurable from the Settings Number of years menu Only available for deceased persons with a full date of death Note For Yahrzeit in Adar see Note for Calendar above
27. rizontal layout Descendant Tree A graphic representation showing a person s descendants Several different layouts are offered DoroTree A graphic representation showing ancestors descendants and siblings including Uncles and Aunts Useful for Bar Bat Mitzvot and for introducing children to genealogy Recommended for a limited number of generations only Outline A text based report showing a person s descendants in hierarchical order displayed with indentations to emphasize the different generations The Outline report can also be shown according to PFN Personal Family Number which can be generated from the Maintenance menu You choose the layout by menu Settings Outline Tree Format The report can be saved in RTF Word or HTML format Family Page Useful for sending to relatives to obtain updated information about their family members Can be saved in HTML Address List A list of addresses emails URLs phone and fax numbers of all people in the database Alphabetical List A list of all people in the database sorted by name date or DT DoroTree identification number Calendar Displays the occurrences of birthdays wedding anniversaries and Yahrzeits on a month by month basis in wall calendar style with option for showing the Jewish holidays as well Can be saved in HTML format Click on Settings to choose the population and the events you want to show in the calendar Note The Day of Death or Yahrzeit fo
28. rson icon second from the left e Female surnames should always be entered as maiden names the surname before first marriage e We strongly recommend that you write Hebrew or Jewish names in the right hand fields If you do not know how to read and write Hebrew change the right hand field setup to Latin characters See the User Settings topic in the online Help file e Use the Info tab fields for nicknames a k a and for former names Enter Current Last Names only if it is different from the surname entered or from the surname of the default husband e f you miss a certain kind of field use one of the nfo fields and it customize for your individual needs e For technical reasons please refrain from using parenthesis in Hebrew fields they tend to perform poorly in reports e f you are playing with the report settings set the number of generations to a small number until you have the report design right Use the Reports Global Settings menu e Ifthe text fields are overlapping pictures in the trees then increase the width of the boxes in the Settings Report Settings menu item e Don t ask for a report preview if you don t have a printer defined e Change Printer Setup definitions from Settings Report Settings menu item for the Family Tree Reports from the same menu item but from the Preview display screen e Reports e g Outline report that can be saved as HTML or RTF Word files are suitable to send t
29. s operating systems and in all desktop settings from 800 by 600 pixels and up We recommend the High Color 16 bit color palette If you are going to change your Display Properties Settings and are not computer proficient we strongly recommend that you do it with somebody who has done so before Icons installed DoroTree installs at amp Q ES least three icons in DoroTree Erigligt English Kaluach Hebrew Hebrew the DoroTree ReadMe HelpFile Calendar HelpFile ReadMe Program Group The exact number depends upon the installation options you choose 1 The DoroTree program icon used to launch DoroTree 2 The Help file icons one icon for each Help file language installed You can hit the F1 key or click on the Help button on most screens to view the online Help file If you do not have an updated Help file for the language you use visit our Updates page http www dorotree com patches html to check if there is a service package patch available for your present version 3 The DoroTree ReadMe icon s 4 The optional Kaluach Hebrew Civil Calendar icon This third party tool is included for your benefit and is not a part of the DoroTree program 2 General Concept and Features DoroTree was developed with an emphasis on user friendliness To achieve this we have made considerable efforts to design all actions as similar and standardized as possible DoroTree has the ability to work simultaneousl
30. s is to submit your family tree to one of the existing global Jewish genealogical databases Beware that the databases below only accept Latin character text fields You can export your DoroTree family database via the GEDCOM format see page 8 For more information about the GEDCOM format see the online Help file or visit one of the following web pages e JewishGen s FTJP page www jewishgen org gedcom e The Diaspora Museum s Beit Hatefutsoth page for the Douglas E Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center www bh org il genealogy index asp 20 Frequently Asked Questions Question Why does DoroTree ask for a registration number when it starts Answer During setup you probably typed in the 18 digit number wrongly Enter the correct number and DoroTree will stop asking for it Question Why can t type on the Main Screen Answer The Main Screen is designed so that you don t accidentally change data In order to edit data use the Update icon 2nd from the left which will open up an Add Edit dialog box Question Where is my family tree stored Answer DoroTree stores your family tree in a file with a DTE suffix The name of the file is the name that appears on the top left hand corner of your screen with a dte suffix E g My Family dte While DoroTree is open your updates are temporarily stored in the DoroTree_Temp directory somewhere under the DoroTree directory Never try to manipulate the files in the Working Files direct
31. th Place or Cemetery and can be manually activated if no death details are known but you are sure that the person is deceased The Holocaust button turns yellow when pressed see page 16 for details Mark the Calendar check box for the family members you want to include in the Monthly Family Calendar or the Yahrzeit List when you choose the Only Checked Persons report option Which persons can you edit You can only invoke the Add Edit Person dialog box for the persons in the center section of the Main Screen In order to edit the parents or the children you have to move them to the center of the screen Clicking on the relevant text box on the Main Screen does this In order to add children you can double click on an empty child pane click on the Add child icon 4th from the left or use the Ada Edit Child menu item 8 Marriage Details The window in the center of the screen displays the marriage details of the couple consisting of the current husband and wife To edit these details simply double click on the Marriage details text box or use the Edit Current Person icon or menu item when the Marriage title is red Mark Divorce or Widowed and the dialog box will be extended to accommodate for these details Marriage details and End of Marriage details can be included in the relevant reports through Fields to include 9 Multiple Spouses If a person has more than one spouse enter the first one in the Main Screen as usual
32. y in two character sets a Latin character set English French Spanish or Portuguese in the left hand fields of the dialog boxes and of the Main Screen and a Hebrew character set for the Jewish right hand side fields but you can use English character for the right hand fields as well You can type in and display characters in Hebrew even without a Hebrew version of Windows due to the special Hebrew font and virtual Hebrew keyboard embedded in the program You do not have to build your family database in two languages and you do not have to take advantage of the unique multi language features that no other Jewish Genealogy program offers You can build up your whole family database in one language only In this case you chose DoroTree because of its special features for the Jewish genealogist Building a Family Database in Hebrew Only You may be well acquainted with the Hebrew language and decide to base your data on Hebrew characters only This is perfectly possible but you should be aware of the fact that presently none of the larger central Jewish family databases and indices accept information in Hebrew characters or fields Whoever constructs such a database has a priori relinquished the idea of contributing his family tree to the existing free at least at time of printing services conducted by e Beit Hatefutsoth in Israel The Diaspora Museum e JewishGen s FTJP The Family Tree of the Jewish People e JGFF the JewishG
33. your Hebrew titles and data appear from left to right please reverse the direction of the Hebrew by pressing on the relevant menu option in the Maintenance Hebrew Handling menu In this menu item you also find the option for activising or hiding the Hebrew virtual keybord To invoke the Edit dialog box click on the Update icon 2nd from left or double click anywhere in the middle display section of either Husband or Wife Your first DoroTree family file has temporarily been called Untitled The first time you exit DoroTree or save the file by clicking on the Save icon you will be prompted for the name of your family file This is the name of the file in which your family data will be stored You may save this file under any directory you wish on your disk The file name you choose will become the name of your family tree database A DoroTree family file name has dte as its extension e g MyFamily dte You may change the file name at a later stage by choosing the File Save as menu item and you may choose a different location and or file name Be aware that if you do so you are duplicating your family file under a different name which may cause serious data synchronization problems You may choose any valid file name for your tree Save your family tree file in the folder of your choice DoroTree will create a backup of the tree in the same folder by adding the words Backup of to the name you chose for your file DO NOT
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