Getting Started

• Basic SILKin Screen
• Open/Create a Context
• Add People/Unions
• Detail Display
• Terms of Reference/Address
• Making Dyads
• Multiple Kin Terms or None
• Reserved Words & Characters
• Restrictions on Names & Comments

Drawing and Editing Charts

• Ego, Alter & Linking Kinsmen
• Date Formats
• Labeling Options for People
• Editable vs Display-Only
• Reshaping the Chart
• Moving People & Unions
• Deleting Relationships
• Deleting People & Unions
• Multiple Charts
• Links Between Charts
• Deleting Charts
• Printing Charts

Context Editor

• What Is A Context?
• The Context Editor"
• Deleted Records
• User-Defined Properties
• Editing A Domain Theory

Suggestions

• Getting Suggestions
• Act on Suggestions
• Undo an Action

Editing Preferences

• Preferences Control Learning
• Ignorable Percent
• Maximum Percent
• Sub-Pattern Matches
• Induction
• Polygamy
• Capturing Surnames and Birth Dates
• Snap To Grid
• Help for Adoptions
• Save Interval
• Kin Type Priorities
• Fonts for Printing

Editing Definitions

• Theory Editor Window Layout
• What Is A Horn Clause?
• Rules For Writing Horn Clauses
• Pre-Defined Terms
• Auxiliary Terms
• Validating and Accepting Definitions
• A Sample Session
• Automatic Variable Generation
• Editing Comments

Non-Genealogical Factors

• Introduction
• Adoption
• Adoption Procedure
• Clans
• Deleting Special Relationships