Label for an individual record

There are two kinds of labels that GEDKeeper uses for a person record to make navigation easier: patriarch label and bookmark. They are almost identical. Both labels are set up as flags in the person modifying dialog. A label is formal and used only to make navigation easier when processing a large database.

The best practice for using a patriarch label is to label the most distant male ancestor in each investigated line (the family founder).

You use a bookmark to label people that are actively being investigated.

There are two ways to use labels: