Welcome to Fzip Family Tree, shareware
genealogy software to view, search, maintain genealogy
details and report on family trees. I hope that you find
this software easy, fast and friendly to use.

I am always interested in improving the software so
please contact me to provide feedback.


[ Name    ] Fzip Family Tree Software
[ Version ] 1.6
[ Contact ] Internet  :	acroft@ozemail.com.au or
	    Post      :	Andrew Croft
			Fzip Support
			13 Heather Avenue
			Ashwood 3147
			Australia
[ Copyright ]
	The software and associated documentation is copyrighted 
	by Andrew Croft. 

[ Summary of Software ]
        Fzip Family Tree is a highly featured,
        fast and easy to use Windows genealogy package. 
	The software allows a person to view, search, 
	maintain genealogy details and report on family trees.

        It has EXTREMELY HIGH speed GEDCOM import and export
	facilities making it suitable as a GEDCOM browser.
	
	The main screen show up to 4 generations of people 
	and provides simple navigation around a family tree. 

	A simple search facility (Easy Find) is available to quickly and 
	easily find people. In addition a powerful and fast search (Find)
	 and sort facility can search by any field for 
	People, Marriages, Places and Sources and includes a 
	special selection to select Roots, Unrelated, Ancestors, 
	Ancestor Roots, Descendants.

	Entry and modification of data is simple and quick using 
	full screen data entry.

	Twenty one different reports are available including :-
		 1. Current Person
		 2. Selected People
		 3. Selected Marriages
		 4. Selected Places
		 5. Selected Sources
		 6. LDS Ordinances
		 7. Descendant Tree Report
		 8. Family Group Report
		 9. Descendant Box Chart
		10. Descendant Story
		11. Hourglass Box Chart
		12. Ancestors Report
		13. Pedigree Report
		14. Ancestor Story
		15. Ancestor Box Chart
		16. Family Summary Report
		17. Kinship Report
		18. Kinship Box Chart Report
		19. Date Check Report
		20. Statistics Summary Report
		21. Statistics Detail Report
 	            
	Alphabetic Indexes are available for Descendant Tree,
	Family Group, Descendant Box, Descendant Story, Ancestor Tree
	and Ancestor Story. This lists all the people reported in
	alphabetic order with the page number and line number where
	they appear in the report.
	       
	The Select reports have choices for sorting the data.

	Reports can be directed to the screen, printer or file.

	There is a limit of 65,534 people per file. Each person may have
        up to 600 children.

	A bookmark facility is available with up to 20 bookmarks
	being available for use. These are stored with a 
	genealogy file.

	New Genealogy files are easily created and accessed and 
	use little disk space. The number of genealogy files  
	supported is limited only by available disk space.

	When a genealogy file is saved a backup of the previous 
	version is stored as a backup.

	The program works by loading all the genealogy data 
	into fast computer memory. Changes are not saved to 
	disk until the Save command is executed.
	
        Online help is available. 

        The main differences between this software and others 
        are the speed of displaying, searching, importing and
        exporting data and the small size of its data files.

[ Latest Version ]
        The latest shareware version of the software may be 
	obtained from www page 
	http://www.ozemail.com.au/~acroft

[ List of Fields Stored and Sizes ]
	Data is stored for people and relationships. (Individuals
	and Families). Data is stored in a compressed format 
	minimising disk storage. Fields and maximum sizes of 
	fields are listed below. Other fields (which are not 
	listed) contain the connections between the records.
	These are automatically maintained.

	Fields for People       Maximum Size in characters
        Family Name             50
	First Name              70
	Sex                     1
	Title                   8
	Date of Birth           date
	Place of Birth          70
	Date of Death           date
	Place of Death          70
	Date of Christening     date
	Place of Christening    70
	Date of Burial          date
	Place of Burial         70
	Religion                50
	Occupation              70
	Address                 255 (maximum of 5 lines)
	Source Birth            70
	Source Death            70
	Source Christening      70
	Source Burial           70
        Reference Number        70
	Cause of Death		70
	LDS fields
	Notes                   30000
		
	Fields for Relationships
	Divorced		1
	Date of Relationship    date
	Place of Relationship   70
	Source Relationship     70
	Date of Divorce		date
	Place of Divorce	70
	Source Divorce	        70
	LDS fields
	Notes                   4096

[ Shareware ]
	This product is distributed as SHAREWARE. 
	Shareware distribution gives you a chance to TRY
	software before BUYING it.

	You may use this for an evaluation period of up 
        to 30 days. After this time you are required to 
	stop using the program or, to REGISTER. 
	When you register, you will receive the latest 
	version of Fzip, some registration keys and 
	documentation. (see file REGISTER.TXT)

	You may copy and distribute the SHAREWARE VERSION
	of Fzip to whoever you wish, provided that it is
	not altered in any way and that no fee is charged 
	other than a normal time usage fee required by 
	some service providers, or a disk duplication fee
	not to exceed $10.

[ Disclaimer ]
	The Genealogy computer software is provided as is. 
	No responsibility is accepted for loss of profit, 
	data or incidental damage associated with the use 
	of this software.

[ Configuration ]
	This program requires an IBM PC or compatible to run 
        with Windows 3.1 and 4 MB of memory or Windows 95 with
        8MB of RAM. (It has been run under Windows NT although
        not extensively tested.) If necessary it
        can be run from a floppy disk.

[ Installation ]
	1. Make a backup copy of the diskette.
	2. Run program SETUP on the installation diskette 
		This will create a directory for the software,
		copy the software to this directory and create
		program manager icons to run the program.

	When the program is run it will create the FZIPFT.INI 
	file on the Windows directory.

	If you are installing this on a machine which already
	contains GENEA then you will need to manually move 
	any .GEN files to the FZIP directory and then perform
	File Open again.

[ Uninstallation ]
	1. Export all your genealogy files as GEDCOM files in a
		directory different to the program directory.
        2. Delete FZIPFT.INI file from the WINDOWS directory.
	3. Delete directory that program exists on.

[Running from Floppy Disk]
	The program can be run from floppy disk by running 
	FZIP.EXE. If you do this it is recommended GENERR.TXT 
	is made read only. When this is done GEDCOM import 
	errors are written to the hard disk to file 
	C:\GENERR.TXT rather than to the same directory as 
	FZIP.EXE. (The same comments apply if this is to be
	run from CD ROM.)

[ List of Files on Disk ]
	FZIP.EXE        - program
	FZIP.HLP        - help file
	FILE_ID.DIZ     - documentation
	GENERR.TXT	- GEDCOM error file
	README.TXT      - this file
	xxx.LNG         - language specific files
       	TEST.GED        - sample GEDCOM file
	CATALOG.EXE     - Catalog and Credit Card Encryption
	ORDERAUS.TXT	- Orderfrm for Australia paying by Cheque or Cash
	ORDERFRM.TXT	- Orderfrm for all other
	REGISTER.TXT	- Registration Information
	SETUP.EXE	- Setup program
	SETUP.INI	- Setup parameters
	POPOLSKU.TXT    - Polish Instructions

[ Recent Version History - see Windows Help What's New for full list]
 1.6b      6 Apr 1999
	1. Updates  to language files
	2. Addition of new report - Kinship Box Chart Report

 1.6a     27 Mar 1999
        1. Integrated character map
	2. Addition of French and Italian customised screens

 1.6	  6 Mar 1999
	1. New - Ancestor Box Report - Box Chart showing Ancestors
	2. New - Hourglass Report - Box Chart combining Ancestors 
		and Descendants Box Chart
	3. New - Statistics Summary Report - displays statistics for 
		Nr of Children in Family, Nr of Marriages for a Person, 
		Birth Month, Death Month, Age at Death, 
		Age at Death with 10yr intervals, Age of Parents at Birth
	4. New - Statistics Detail Report - displays individual 
		people for statistics of Nr of Children in Family, 
		Nr of Marriages for a Person, Birth Month, Death Month, 
		Age at Death, Age of Father at Birth, Age of Mother at Birth
	5. New - FindList - Brief story of person is now displayed in window below list
	6. New - Program will open a .GEN file or import a .GED file 
		if it is selected and file associations are linked to program FZIP.EXE.
	7. New - Sex of Unknown (?) can be input.
	8. New - Add extra option to Descendant and Ancestor Story 
		reports to always show individual as a separate entry 
		even if they have minimal information.
	9. New - Greatly improved ability to customise for another 
		language. Can now have menus, screen literals, messages, 
		button text, report literals in a language other than English. 
		Minor exceptions for some registration text.
	10. New - New date qualifier of XXX can be used to order children within 
		a family. eg. XXX 1952 Dates with this qualifier will not print. 
		Children/Siblings are ordered by their date of birth. 
		If you do not have a date of birth then you can use this date 
		qualifier to order the siblings.
	11. Fix - Date Check Report reported problems in birth dates which were 
		blank but the comparison against the baptism date would cause an error.
	12. New - Find Selection can now enter number of generations to 
		search for special selection.
	13. Change - Reports - Date of Divorce now prints when Level of Detail = 1
		 rather than Place of Marriage. Divorce Details now print for 
		Level of Detail = 2
	14. New - Edit Screen now has mini Date Calculator available for 
		manipulating dates.
	15. New - Person Report, Selected People and Family Group can now 
		report as a Story -  Level of Detail of 8
	16. New - New Translation of program literals into Polish. 
		Thank you Grzegorz Kwiatowski
	17. New - Translation of program literals into German. 
		Thank you Manfred Hirtler.
	18. Fix - Date Check incorrectly reported some messages 
		( Person married at  and Person a Mother/Father at age ..) - corrected

 1.5d 	   Jan 1999
	1. New - Edit Marriage order function

 1.5	   May 1998
	1. New - Alphabetic Indexes for some reports
        2. New - Descendant and Ancestor Tree reports now can print
		across pages
        3. New - Improved formatting for many reports
        4. New - Print Preview - zoom
        5. New - Print Preview - jump to a page number
	6. New - Improved support for languages other than English.
 
see Windows Help What's New for full list of Versions
