Copy and Paste your pedigrees!

[VnV Stables]

I just wanted to give everyone a hint. I've bred 47 (have about 20 more requests in my box) foals this January. When you start getting that many requests it's ESSENTIAL you have your pedigrees so that you can just copy and paste them into your certificates you send out.

Believe me. I did it the hard way for many years, I used SitStay's pedigree generator and I hand typed every single pedigree every single time it was used. You would not believe the amount of time it saves you just to have it already typed up and you can copy and paste it every time someone requests it.

Of course most of mine aren't typed up yet, I only type them up when someone requests them so if they're ones no one's used before I still have to type them up. But I do have it then for any used after that.

I had someone request the same parents in different orders for half a dozen horses, imagine if I'd had to type those parents up each time!

So I highly HIGHLY recommend you have a certificate that allows you to save the parents and just paste them into your certificate when you need to.

I also recommend paper backups though. I always write my pedigrees out by hand first then type them when someone needs them. I've lost way too many files to technology to trust it completely.

[stableforchampions]

I have a question about that, though. How do you get the pedigree pasted so it's only as the second generation and up, not as the original horse....does that make sense? Because I tried saving my pedigrees one time in Word or some other program, but I couldn't figure out how to copy and paste it as the parent, in the right spot.

[stableforchampions]

Of course, I don't have time for that yet, anyway. I'm still typing them all up in a pedigree generator for the website, lol

[VnV Stables]

I type mine into my certificate as the parent, then I copy/paste that into a new file and save it. That way it saves so you can just copy/paste it as a parent.

[luke]

Really I've inspired by your nice post.