A7 Book, pages and export

What the Strom app puts out of the tree (the family book, pages, files for the family and for other programs) and how it protects living people in them. Describes the app 3.21.2.

• The backup and the app with data can be encrypted with a password (Encrypt with a password); GEDCOM cannot. Encryption works only at a secure address: over https, on localhost or 127.0.0.1 and in a file opened from the disk; not at an http:// address in a network, and the password dialog says so (A1.1).

A7.1 Who is a living person

The privacy of living people (A7.2) concerns only people the app considers living.

1. A person marked as deceased (Deceased) is deceased; a person whose data say "living" explicitly is living.
2. A person with a date of death is deceased.
3. Otherwise the person is living when fewer than 110 years have passed since their latest possible year of birth.
4. A person without a year of birth and without any other clue is living (the safe choice).

• The latest possible year of birth is taken from the person's own data and events, from a marriage (at least 14 years before it) and from children (a parent is at least 12 years older than a child, across further generations).
• Limits: the mark † at a person in the tree is a different rule (presumed deceased after 120 years) and does not control privacy. A descendant's death alone does not mark an ancestor as deceased.
• Controls: the checkbox Deceased when editing a person; when a relative is added it is ticked by itself once a date or place of death is filled in.
• Since: app 1.2.0; ticking Deceased by itself app 3.21.2

A7.2 Privacy of living people

Before an output from the tree, how to show living people is chosen. In the export and in the family book the option is called Privacy of living people.

• Every option except Full data removes from living people all dates and places, notes, stories, the photo, events, citations, attachments, name variants, titles, the married surname, the open question, REFN and the research's data. With Initials the year of birth stays.
• The couple's data (dates, place, note, witnesses, stories, events) disappear when at least one of the partners is living. Initials keep the year the union began.
• Limits: the structure always stays: people, relationships and sex. Deceased people do not change.
• Sources: in the export (App with data, JSON, GEDCOM) every option except Full data leaves out the source catalogue, citations and attachments for all people, deceased too (the app says so at the option). The family book, the pages and the person page take sources away only from living people; a source cited only for living people drops out.
• Since: app 1.2.0; sources of deceased people in the book and on the pages app 3.18.0
• From app 3.26.0: the GEDCOM export keeps the sources and citations of deceased people in every option; it leaves out only the citations of living people and says so (“For N living people, K citations are left out. The deceased keep their sources.”, option Keep sources). The App with data and JSON exports do not change. The GEDCOM export first asks What the file is for: Back to {program} (full data, sources and program IDs), or To share with others (S6.6).

A7.2.1 Default privacy by output

• Limits: Family pages and Tree pages make no page of its own and no link for a protected person; in the index the person is under the protected name. When the choice contains living people and privacy is off, the dialog warns that the file will carry their names, dates and places.
• Since: app 1.2.0; person page app 3.18.0; family book app 3.19.0
• From app 3.26.0: GEDCOM with the option To share with others (the default) has Initials + birth year, with the option Back to {program} Full data (S6.6).

A7.3 Content of the file

In the export, next to privacy, the Content is chosen: what is saved into the file.

• Limits: the structure of the tree and the names always stay. The research's workshop (queue, tasks, drafts of stories) never goes into an export. The privacy option can leave out sources and attachments even with Complete archive (A7.2).
• Since: app 2.4.0

A7.4 Family book

The family book is a book to read from the start: a family tree, families by generations, stories and sources.

• What goes in the book: Whole tree · Family lines (one or more) · Ancestors of a person · Descendants of a person (the choice of people A7.4.1).
• Parts of the book in this order: Contents, Family line tree, Families (always), Stories, Life chart and timeline, The times (history), Sources, Record clippings and photos, Other families, Person index.
• A part without content is left out and the dialog says why: Stories needs stories, the chart a level of detail other than brief, The times history, Sources cited sources, Clippings a photo or a clipping. Other families are only in the book of the whole tree.
• Preset: For the family (all parts, the usual level of detail, without notes and data for researchers) · For researchers (full detail, notes, data for researchers: state of evidence and conflicts, R3.8) · Custom. The default is Whole tree, For the family, Initials + birth year and the language of the app.
• The Title is made from the choice (the tree's name, the family line, Ancestors: name, Descendants: name) and can be rewritten.
• Book language changes headings and labels; data from the tree are not translated.
• The options are remembered for each tree.
• Controls: export Family book; the book window: printing on A4 and Save as HTML.
• Since: app 3.19.0; the preset Custom app 3.21.0

A7.4.1 Choice of people for the book and the pages

• Limits: the line of ancestors and descendants is carried by biological and adoptive parents. A step-parent and a foster parent do not carry the line. The father means the male parent, biological before adoptive.
• Since: app 3.19.0; Selected people app 3.21.0

A7.5 Family pages and tree pages

The pages are a linked set of pages: the family line, families and people with links between them and with indexes of people, families, surnames and towns.

• Family pages: one or more family lines (A4).
• Tree pages: Pages for the whole tree (all family lines and Other families), Selected people, the ancestors of a person with a chosen number of generations.
• Privacy of living people and sources as in A7.2; default Initials + birth year.
• Since: Family pages app 3.20.0; Tree pages app 3.21.0

A7.6 Person page

The Person page shows the whole life of one person: dates in words, the family as a small family tree, stories, the places of the life on a map, a life axis with history, clippings from registers and sources, and the section For researchers.

• Save as HTML creates one self-contained file that opens offline in any browser. Groups of content and the privacy of living people can be chosen (A7.2.1); the choice is remembered.
• Controls: the menu of a person's card, Person page; also from the fan.
• Since: app 3.18.0

A7.7 Saved HTML (a standalone file)

App with data (HTML) saves the app and the tree into one file that opens in any browser without installation. Export as app in Export all trees puts all trees into one file.

• Such a file has its own storage in the browser. It does not synchronize with the app on stromapp.info; changes are kept by Save file (downloads a copy) and are moved into the web app by an import (From HTML file).
• Limits: by default the file protects living people (Initials, A7.2.1).
• Since: app 1.0.0

A7.8 Stories

A story is continuous prose about a person or a marriage, written on top of the tree's facts. It is not a source: sources document the facts, a story only retells them (A3.6).

• Where it shows: the Story window (from the person card menu), the person page (A7.6) and, in the family book, the Stories part after Families (A7.4). A couple's story, one per marriage, comes under the person's own; in the book it has its own subchapter.
• Text format: a blank line separates paragraphs; a line ## … is a subheading; lines - … are bullets; **bold** and *italic*. Other marks stay plain text. Neither * 1831 (birth) nor 1. ledna at the start of a line starts a bullet. An opening # … that only repeats the chapter subheading is left out. A bare source code in the text reads as the source's title.
• Limits:
  • the person's own story can be written and edited when editing a person, section Story: Chapter subheading and The story. The section shows when Settings → Person card → Advanced fields is on or some text already exists. A couple's story and Built on (the facts and the author's caveat) come with the file and are read-only;
  • a draft from the research, not yet approved, carries the tag Draft and the link Approve in the research. A new version from the research waits beside the approved one (“New version waiting”, Compare); editing in the app does not discard it, the decision is made in the research (R3.9.1);
  • in the book and in print there are no sources under the text; the story's sources are numbered in the book's list of sources;
  • in a GEDCOM file a story is in its own tag _STORY, not in a note.
• Controls: person card menu → Story; editing a person → section Story.
• Since: app 2.8.0; couple's stories and the person page 3.18.0; in the family book 3.19.0