PICTORIAL FAMILY TREE (PFT) INSTRUCTIONS

1. PICTORIAL FAMILY TREE LAYOUT:

   Let me  first describe the  PICTORIAL FAMILY TREE (PFT) FOLDER/FILE layout.  
   The PFT folder is the overall folder containing a subfolder for each
   family member. Within each member subfolder, ie, member folder, there are
   two subfolders, one for storing pictures and one for storing documents.

   Each family member folder is prefixed with a 3-digit sequence number
   to place that member wihtin a hierarchical genealogical sequence.
   Members in the same generation are prefixed with the same 3-digit number.
   The smaller the numerical prefix, the farther back in time that the 
   member lived. I chose my own generation as 100 to allow more room for
   older members.

   In addition to the pictures and documents subfolders, each member folder 
   contain a headshot picture & an HTML file which "links" to the other 
   member folders of immediately related family members. 

2. ADDING A MEMBER FOLDER:

   To add a member o the PFT, all you need do is to create a new member folder
   and load it with the data required. To accomplish this task I have included 
   a member folder template herein, 000-MEMBER-FOLDER-TEMPLATE. For backup
   purposes, copy and paste this folder somewhere outside of the PFT folder,
   because you  will need for adding more than one member. Having done that,
   let's get to work. 
 
3. ADDING FILES TO THE 000-MEMBER-FOLDER-TEMPLATE.

   The first thing you will want to add is the person's headshot. Copy 
   the .jpg picture of the person you want and paste it into the member's
   folder. Delete the template called HeadShot.jpg and rename the person's
   picture to HeadShot.jpg.

   Copy and paste any other pictures and documents to the Pictures and
   Documents subfolders, respectively.  

4. MAKE CHANGES TO THE MEMBER HTML FILE CALLED MemberFacts.html:

   And now comes the part you may choke on, ie, updating the member's HTML FILE.
   The html file tells your browser how to paint a a member's screen as well as
   where to go to find immediately related family members, ie, links. The html
   file must have the file-type .html when used by a browser. 

   Included in the member folder template, you will see a file called
 
            MemberFacts.html. 

   You must use a text editor, like Windows NotePad, to update this file.
   When you first open the file with your text editor, you will see two types 
   of happy faces, one smiling followed by one with sun glasses. These mark 
   respectively the beginning and end of each data field where you have to 
   enter information for your new member. In between the two similey faces
   is the indicaton of what is required. After entering the text into each
   data fueld, MAK SURE YOU DELETE THE TWO SMILEY FACES LEAVING NO SPACES.

   The following is important to understand in text editing the file.
     DO NOT CHANGE ANY LINES CONTAINING LONG STRINGS OF &nsb,
     BECAUSE   THOSE ARE SPACES USED FOR FORMATTING.
     AND DO NOT REMOVE ANY <BR> LINES,
     BECAUSE THOSE ARE LINE FEEDS (ie, CARRIAGE RETURNS).
     WITHOUT THESE CONTROL  CHARACTERS YOU WILL GET LINE WRAPS.
     (NOTE: Do not allow the addition of any ACTIVEX or SCRIPTS into the html file.)

   Finally after making your changes, MAKE SURE YOU SAVE MemberFacts.html 
   WITHOUT CHANGING THE FILE-NAME & FILE-TYPE.

5. ACTIVATING THE MEMBER FOLDER.

   Having completed updating the new member folder, it is now time to rename 
   it to the appropriate numerical generation prefix and person's name.
   You now have the new member's folder established and ready to respond 
   to links from other existing member folders.   

6. TEST USING YOUR BROWSER.

7. THE 002-GROUP FOLDER.

   This folder is intended to keep sub-folders which in turn contain 
   related group shots where there are far too many members to create 
   an individual member folder for each peson shown. If an individual 
   member appears in a group shot, then that fact can be updated 
   in the WHERE SEEN links of the individual member.