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LOOK AND FEEL
Personal Ancestral File 5.2 – commonly called PAF – is a solid genealogy software package designed by The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, which is free. Perfonal Ancestral File has been designed for easy data input; in fact, this program set the standard that most other genealogy programs follow to import and export GEDCOM files.
Personal Ancestral File with its intuitive design is very well organized and makes it easy to jump right in and get started recording your family history information. The main screen is the Family View where you can see an individual with their parents, spouse and up to eight children. Among the data entry features include the ability to add multiple parents and mark the relationship as biological, adopted, guardian, challenged or disproved. Photos, sound and video files can be attached to individuals or sources. A caption and description can be added to each file and scrapbooks can be printed.
IMPORT CAPABILITIES
You can import GEDCOM files only.
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FEATURES
There are no dropline charts available as part of the program or the associated package, PAF Companion. However, basic pedigree and ancestry charts (left-to-right) are available within PAF and the Companion package adds hourglass (ancestors to the left and descendants to the right) and bow-tie charts (father’s family to left and mother’s to right) to this. Ahnentafel and modified register reports are easy to generate and there are some well laid-out family group sheets. You can also select individuals and families for export to your Palm handheld and view your data
SHARING YOUR WORK
It is very simple to produce ancestry or descendancy web pages for an individual or details of selected individuals. You can modify the header and footer for every page to meet your own requirements. The resulting pages look very plain, yet are straightforward to navigate.
PRICE
Free, $6.75 for PAF Companion.
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