I have windows 7 and, because I have never liked FTM2008 tried the previous version first - which doesn't work on vista. Works perfectly on Windows 7 so I am now very happy! Isobel -----Original Message----- From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ann zeman Sent: 09 March 2010 21:57 To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software I just got a new laptop with Windows 7; found my Family Tree Maker software wasn't compatible; contacted the FTM company to see if there was a software patch; NO, there wasn't. I had to buy a new Family Tree Maker, which I installed, However! It won't open any of my old FTM files. Big sigh. I have to wait to have a free 4 or 5 hours (and a quiet mind) to try to phone FTM back and see if there's a solution. Isn't technology interesting. Ann Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "M Keith Abel" <kabel@kingston.net> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software > Dear Colin: > > I am using a program which will do exactly as you describe but I suspect > it > is all obsolete now. The Genealogy Program was Personal Ancestral File > Version 2.3 > > A program called "Pafability" written by an American Woman, I believe in > Washington DC, was capable of reading the files produced by PAF 3 and > assembling fully and beautifully worded reports beginning with anyone of > your choosing. Unfortunately Paf 3 would not work with any version of > Windows and as far as I know, the versions of PAF that do work with > Windows > have a different File Structure and don't work with Pafability. > > A complication of my own: the printer that works on the computer with my > genealogy program has gone into a sulk and won't print anything. I think > all it needs is a cleaning out but I haven't found anyone to clean out an > antique printer. > > Perhaps someone out there knows if the newer versions of PAF that operate > with Windows have the very fine report generating capability that > "Pafability" had. > > M Keith Abel > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin Speed" <colin@caspeed.co.uk> > To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com>; <angus@rootsweb.com>; <sct-fife@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:51 PM > Subject: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software > > > > Some years ago I had a family tree program which could generate > > descendant > > reports for my entire database automatically. That is to say that it > > would > > analyse the database and work out the oldest memn=bers of each line, > > then > > start a new chapter for that line. > > > > Is there any existing program which will do this nowadays, preferrable > > not > > too expensive. My old programme was not compatable with a Windows Update > > (it > > was Windows 95 or (* I thing) > > > > Many thanks > > > > Colin > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2727 - Release Date: 03/06/10 19:34:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2727 - Release Date: 03/06/10 19:34:00

One thing to consider, whichever, software you use is whether or not your Windows operating system is 64bit or 32bit. Many of the older programs work if you installed or had installed Windows 7 32bit but don't worked at all if you install Windows 7 64bit. Gordon -----Original Message----- From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Isobel Davidson Sent: March-09-10 3:34 PM To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software I have windows 7 and, because I have never liked FTM2008 tried the previous version first - which doesn't work on vista. Works perfectly on Windows 7 so I am now very happy! Isobel -----Original Message----- From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ann zeman Sent: 09 March 2010 21:57 To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software I just got a new laptop with Windows 7; found my Family Tree Maker software wasn't compatible; contacted the FTM company to see if there was a software patch; NO, there wasn't. I had to buy a new Family Tree Maker, which I installed, However! It won't open any of my old FTM files. Big sigh. I have to wait to have a free 4 or 5 hours (and a quiet mind) to try to phone FTM back and see if there's a solution. Isn't technology interesting. Ann Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "M Keith Abel" <kabel@kingston.net> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software > Dear Colin: > > I am using a program which will do exactly as you describe but I suspect > it > is all obsolete now. The Genealogy Program was Personal Ancestral File > Version 2.3 > > A program called "Pafability" written by an American Woman, I believe in > Washington DC, was capable of reading the files produced by PAF 3 and > assembling fully and beautifully worded reports beginning with anyone of > your choosing. Unfortunately Paf 3 would not work with any version of > Windows and as far as I know, the versions of PAF that do work with > Windows > have a different File Structure and don't work with Pafability. > > A complication of my own: the printer that works on the computer with my > genealogy program has gone into a sulk and won't print anything. I think > all it needs is a cleaning out but I haven't found anyone to clean out an > antique printer. > > Perhaps someone out there knows if the newer versions of PAF that operate > with Windows have the very fine report generating capability that > "Pafability" had. > > M Keith Abel > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin Speed" <colin@caspeed.co.uk> > To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com>; <angus@rootsweb.com>; <sct-fife@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:51 PM > Subject: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software > > > > Some years ago I had a family tree program which could generate > > descendant > > reports for my entire database automatically. That is to say that it > > would > > analyse the database and work out the oldest memn=bers of each line, > > then > > start a new chapter for that line. > > > > Is there any existing program which will do this nowadays, preferrable > > not > > too expensive. My old programme was not compatable with a Windows Update > > (it > > was Windows 95 or (* I thing) > > > > Many thanks > > > > Colin > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2727 - Release Date: 03/06/10 19:34:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2727 - Release Date: 03/06/10 19:34:00 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2732 - Release Date: 03/09/10 00:33:00

Hi all, I have the PAF 5 version and it works just fine - will do all you ask. This is free from the IGI. I am running on a older version of Windows (can't remember what it is called - a "senior's moment" I'm afraid). It is not Vista - the one before it. PAF 5 and its upgrades will produce beautiful "modified registers" for anyone in the database. Cheers, Carol On 10 March 2010 09:59, Gordon McLeod <gordon@shieldaig.com> wrote: > One thing to consider, whichever, software you use is whether or not your > Windows operating system is 64bit or 32bit.  Many of the older programs work > if you installed or had installed Windows 7 32bit but don't worked at all if > you install Windows 7 64bit. > > Gordon > > -----Original Message----- > From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Isobel Davidson > Sent: March-09-10 3:34 PM > To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software > > I have windows 7 and, because I have never liked FTM2008 tried the previous > version first - which doesn't work on vista.  Works perfectly on Windows 7 > so I am now very happy! > > Isobel > > -----Original Message----- > From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of ann zeman > Sent: 09 March 2010 21:57 > To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software > > I just got a new laptop with Windows 7; found my Family Tree Maker software > wasn't compatible; contacted the FTM company to see if there was a software > patch; NO, there wasn't. I had to buy a new Family Tree Maker, which I > installed, However! It won't open any of my old FTM files. > Big sigh. I have to wait to have a free 4 or 5 hours (and a quiet mind) to > try to phone FTM back and see if there's a solution. Isn't technology > interesting. > Ann Z > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M Keith Abel" <kabel@kingston.net> > To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:24 AM > Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software > > >> Dear Colin: >> >> I am using a program which will do exactly as you describe but I suspect >> it >> is all obsolete now.  The Genealogy Program was Personal Ancestral File >> Version 2.3 >> >> A program called "Pafability" written by an American Woman,   I believe in >> Washington DC,   was capable of reading the files produced by PAF 3 and >> assembling fully and beautifully worded reports beginning with anyone of >> your choosing.   Unfortunately Paf 3 would not work with any version of >> Windows and as far as I know, the versions of PAF that do work with >> Windows >> have a different File Structure and don't work with Pafability. >> >> A complication of my own:   the printer that works on the computer with my >> genealogy program has gone into a sulk and won't print anything.  I think >> all it needs is a cleaning out but I haven't found anyone to clean out an >> antique printer. >> >> Perhaps someone out there knows if the newer versions of PAF that operate >> with Windows have the very fine report generating capability that >> "Pafability" had. >> >> M Keith Abel >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Colin Speed" <colin@caspeed.co.uk> >> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com>; <angus@rootsweb.com>; <sct-fife@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:51 PM >> Subject: [ABERDEEN] Family Tree Software >> >> >> > Some years ago I had a family tree program which could generate >> > descendant >> > reports for my entire database automatically. That is to say that it >> > would >> > analyse the database and work out the oldest memn=bers of each line, >> > then >> > start a new chapter for that line. >> > >> > Is there any existing program which will do this nowadays, preferrable >> > not >> > too expensive. My old programme was not compatable with a Windows Update >> > (it >> > was Windows 95 or (* I thing) >> > >> > Many thanks >> > >> > Colin >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2727 - Release Date: 03/06/10 > 19:34:00 > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2727 - Release Date: 03/06/10 > 19:34:00 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2732 - Release Date: 03/09/10 > 00:33:00 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >