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Labels Tab

This tab defines the text labels that GED-GEN uses when generating your family, surname and index pages. If you would like to customize this text, simply change the phrases. For best results, do not include punctuation characters, or leading or trailing space characters. If you do it may interfere with the punctuation that GED-GEN adds. The phrase "in" is an exception. It is used before the place field for a birth, marriage and death. If you prefer a colon after "in," then be sure to add one.

This tab also assists those wishing to generate web pages in a language other than English.

Click Reset to Defaults to reset all text phrases to their original, default values. If you do this, you will lose any changes you have made to these phrases. This command affects all fields on the Labels tab, except User-defined Facts.

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Common and More Tabs

Click either of these tabs to change the labels displayed on generated web pages.

Group Sheet

These are the most common labels that appear on a family group sheet.

  • Husband
  • Wife
  • Born
  • Married
  • Died
  • in <place>
  • Father
  • Mother
  • Spouses
  • M (male)
  • F (female)
  • Name
"in" is followed by a place of birth, marriage or death. You may prefer "at" instead.

Section Titles

These labels delineate sections on a family group sheet.

  • Children
  • Additional Information
  • Footnotes
  • individuals in
  • families
  • Most Common Surnames
"individuals in" and "families" form a subtitle on the Surname and Index pages, for example:

"831 individuals in 386 families"

Navigation Links

These labels appear as hypertext links to navigate between web pages.

  • Home
  • Surnames
  • Index
  • Prior
  • Next
  • Group Sheet
  • Bibliography
  • Repository
  • Link Separator
The "Group Sheet" link appears on the footnotes page when you choose to display source citations in a frame window at the bottom of the browser. This allows a visitor to display the corresponding group sheet if they reach your footnotes page via an Internet search engine.

The link separator is displayed between the inter-page navigation links. The default is a vertical bar character (|) enclosed between two non-breaking space (&nbsp;) characters.

Other

These are miscellaneous other labels.

  • Notes
  • Marriage Notes
  • Medical Notes
  • Revised
  • Revision Date Format
  • Unknown (surname)
  • continued
  • Ibid
"Unknown" is a phrase displayed for unknown surnames.

Leave the "Notes:" field empty to display notes without a preceding "Notes:" label.

"Revised" is followed by the date the web page is generated. Leave this label empty to omit the date.

"Revision Date Format" controls how the revision date will appear. It uses special codes to represent the month, day, year and weekday. The arrangement of these codes determines how the date will appear. For example,

dddd MMMM dd, yyyy
results in:
Tuesday January 01, 2002

Click the drop-down button to select a pre-configured format, or type in your own format string using the codes below. Enter codes exactly as they are shown, including uppercase or lowercase letters. You may include spaces, commas, slashes, and hyphens. Enclose other characters in single quotation marks ('), as in:

d 'of' MMMM, yyyy  for  1 of January, 2002.

MMonth (1-12) dDay (1-31)
MMMonth (01-12) ddDay (01-31)
MMMMonth (Jan-Dec) dddDay (Mon-Sun)
MMMMMonth (January-December) ddddDay (Monday-Sunday)
yyYear (00-99)
yyyyYear (1900-2040)

Bibliography

These labels are used on the bibliography and repository web pages.

  • Agency
  • Changed
  • E-Mail
  • Event
  • Events
  • FAX
  • Period
  • Phone
  • Quality
  • Reference
  • Role
  • Website

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Facts A-M and Facts N-Z Tabs

Click either of these tabs to change the text of other facts, which are displayed either within the family page, or in a separate section at the end of each family page. Other facts are not displayed unless you enable them using the Facts tab.

  • Adoption
  • Annulment
  • Baptism
  • Bar Mitzvah
  • Bas Mitzvah
  • Blessing
  • Burial
  • Caste
  • Cause of Death
  • Census
  • Christening (Adult)
  • Confirmation
  • Cremation
  • Divorced
  • Divorced Filed
  • Education
  • Emigration
  • Engaged
  • Fact
  • First Communion
  • Graduation
  • Immigration
  • National ID
  • Nationality
  • Naturalization
  • Number of Children
  • Number of Marriages
  • Marriage Bann
  • Marriage Contract
  • Marriage License
  • Marriage Settlement
  • Occupation
  • Ordination
  • Physical Description
  • Probate
  • Property
  • Religion
  • Residence
  • Retirement
  • Social Security Number
  • Title
  • Will

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User-defined Facts Tab

Registered version only Many genealogy software programs allow you to define your own facts about an individual. These facts are ordinarily displayed if you choose Include other facts on the Facts tab. You can prevent certain user-defined facts from appearing on your family pages.

Simply enter the fact label in one of the fields on this tab. Be sure to spell each fact exactly as it appears in your genealogy program. Then on the Facts tab, clear the checkbox next to the user-defined fact.

Bonus: To exclude several related facts, you can use a wildcard notation. Enter a caret (^) as the first character, and then a substring to be matched. If the specified substring appears anywhere in the fact label, it is processed according to the setting on the Facts tab, that is, either included or excluded.

Suppose you want to exclude two user-defined facts, "Time of Birth" and "Time of Death." You could enter them separately as two facts. Or, you could enter one user-defined fact and use the wildcard notation:

^Time of

to match both facts. The caret must always be the first character. You cannot use it in the middle or at the end of a string. If your fact actually has a caret in the first position, enter two carets (e.g., ^^Time of Birth). This will cancel the wildcard feature.

Use the wildcard notation carefully. If your substring appears anywhere in the fact label, it will be considered a match. Thus if you had specified "^Time" rather than "^Time of," you would also match a fact like Time Period.

Registered version only = Feature is available only in the registered version.

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Notes

Advanced Users

You can surround many labels on the Common and More tabs and all labels on the Facts A-M and Facts N-Z tabs with HTML syntax. This allows you to further customize how they appear. For example if you want the title for the additional information section to appear in an italic font, change the label for "Additional Information" to

<i>Additional Information</i>

You can also use an image file. Suppose you created a GIF file named addinfo.gif as a title for the additional information section. You could then specify the label as

<img src="addinfo.gif" alt="Additional Information" border="0">

GED-GEN uses the lengths of the following labels to determine column alignment. You should not specify HTML elements for them. The elements would occupy character positions that are not necessarily displayed and therefore interfere with column alignment. This also applies to other facts you choose to display within the family page rather than at the end of the family page.

  • Husband
  • Wife
  • Name
  • Born
  • Married
  • Died
  • Father
  • Mother
  • Spouses
  • M (male)
  • F (female)

The "M (male)" and "F (female)" labels are handled differently. If an ampersand (&) or left angle bracket (<) character appears in the first position, it is assumed you are specifying HTML syntax that will occupy only one character position when displayed. This allows you to display, for example, a symbol for a person's gender rather than a letter or word.

Note

If you enable the Use non-proportional font option on the Attributes tab, an image (<IMG> element) is technically not allowed within a preformatted text area (<PRE> element), such as the family group sheet. It would violate HTML conformance.

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Revised: January 8, 2007
Copyright © 2001-2007 Mike Voisin. All rights reserved.