A person record is the most important record type in a genealogical database. Such a record contains all the information about a person. GEDKeeper allows you to store the full name, nickname, and sex in a person record. You can list all events and facts that relate to the person's life. Using GEDKeeper you easily investigate family and social relations of the person (associations with other people). GEDKeeper never restricts you in the number of a person's families and children. Also, you can divide people by different social groups, add additional indicators to improve obviousness (references), add unlimited number of notes, multimedia materials and sources, and add a person's portrait for displaying in trees.
This is the list of dialog tabs and respective data categories you can change:
Any person can have several "full names" - i.e. each such name can include parts of the last name, first name, middle name, nickname, etc.
This is done for those cases when during a person's life, all or some parts have changed. For example, if during adoption, a person changed all parts: last name, first name, middle name. There are also cases (real example), when a child Shirokov Zenovey Efremovich was born, then the parents died, was adopted by godparents and for several years was called Pugov Zenovey Efremovich, and then the middle name changed according to the name of the adopter, the person became Pugov Zenovey Ivanovich.
In such cases, it is convenient to make three entries of full names in the person record, where there will be a full indication of all parts and a note of the name type.
In other cases, a person may have several very different names in different languages - when not only the transliteration of names differs, but the surname and first name have completely different spelling and pronunciation.
Note: the fields for entering parts of the name, located at the top of the person editing dialog - always change the parts of the name that is listed first in the list of names. Any full name can be made first, then it will be the main one for displaying everywhere.
Note: Several tabs in this dialog have buttons for the functions
"Copy" and
"Paste".
These functions are very useful when entering large amounts of information in bulk.
A detailed description of these functions is in the section Clipboard.
There is a uniting table on the "Persons" tab of the main working window which includes all persons available in the database. A person summary to the right of the table shows all information about the selected person and references to other records.