Customizing the Brother's Keeper Options

We strongly recommend that you set the Brother’s Keeper display preferences according to the following instructions. Doing so will make the program run much more efficiently, especially with a large data set such as GRANDMA.

A. Start the Brother’s Keeper program.

B. Select File, Options (see below):


C. On the next screen, click Edit Screen and check the following boxes:

Have the screen blank and prompt for a name to find
-When the program starts have it go to the edit screen
-Show date of last change
-Make the Select Person list show in birth year order
(see below):


D. Select File (top left corner), Save and Close (see below):

 

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