uFTi user manual: Windows

Oughtibridge Ltd

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Contents

Quick Start

Six short pages that take you from opening uFTi to your first person, with its source and a copy.

• Get uFTi
  Download uFTi, install it and open it for the first time.
• Add your first person
  Make your own workspace and add yourself, or someone you know well.
• Look around
  See what the main menu items show for the person you added.
• Say where you found it
  Add a source to a fact, so you always know why you believe it.
• Keep it safe
  Save a copy of your tree as a file, and keep it somewhere else too.
• What next
  You have a tree, a person, a fact with its source and a copy, so choose where to go from here.

Five things to know

The five ideas behind uFTi, in two minutes.

Work with your tree

Find people, add people and families, read their events and sources, and write notes.

• The screens of the app
  What each item in the menu at the left shows, with a picture of each screen.
• Find a person
  Search your tree by a name, a place or an event, then open the person you want.
• See a family tree
  Draw the parents, partners and children of one person.
• See the events of a person
  List what happened in a person's life, such as birth, marriage and death, and open any one.
• Look at the sources of a fact
  See which books and records back up a birth, a death or another fact, and change or remove one.
• Add another person
  Add a person to a tree that already has someone in it.
• Change a person
  Correct a name, a date or a place on a person's page.
• Add a family with children
  Join two partners, record their marriage and add their children.
• Add a note to a person
  Write down something you know about a person that does not fit in a date or a place.
• The Photos buttons
  What the three buttons under Photos do on a person, an event or a source.
• Choose how the app looks
  Pick a colour theme, and a light or dark look, for this computer.
• A page says no person is selected
  What to do when Events, Notes or Family tree ask you to pick a person first.

Bring in, share and keep safe

What your workspace holds, why a GEDZIP file is the one to keep and send, and when a plain family tree file is better.

• Your workspace and its files
  A workspace is your family tree and its linked files, and a GEDZIP file holds all of them in one file.
• Opened files and copies
  On a computer, uFTi works on the file you open, so make a copy first if you want the original left alone.
• Open a family tree file
  Bring a tree from another program, or a copy from a relative, into uFTi.
• Remove a tree from the list
  Take a tree off the Workspaces screen without deleting its file.
• Which file to send
  Send a GEDZIP file to anyone who uses uFTi, and a plain family tree file only to an older program.
• Files beside your tree
  The files you may see beside your tree: the tree itself and its backup.