In a message dated 9/16/02 7:44:47 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Does anyone know of a genealogy program that imports > GEDCOM's from PAF Dora, which version of PAF do you have? the newer 5.0 version has more options than the 4.0 and earlier. It is also a free download. I would advise you to play with PAF a little. Click on the tabs at the top and see what is in them. See what it will do before you go to another program. I have PAF along with Ancestral Quest. I'm happy with both. Ancestral Quest does some nice reports. I haven't put pictures in, but I know that it will do so. Aleta, IBSSG, Charter Member Bo-Peep Award Ogden, Utah, USA "God sent his Singers upon the Earth, With songs of Gladness and Mirth. That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them to Heaven again." --Longfellow

Missed second part of this; does Ancestral Quest import date ranges, "abt 1635", and 1636/1637? I don't think I was quite clear on this. I need the documentation to send to the people at Genealogy.com and Arts and Entertainment Channel, who own Family Tree Maker. Unlike Family Tree Maker, they cannot reasonably be expected to know all about such a detail. I know that usually one can deduce that if a date is Feb 1636/1637 the "real" year is 1637, and that if it is Nov 1636/1637 the "real" year is 1636. Or I DID know that before I learned last night that the other reason for the double dates is the change from Gregorian to modern caldendar system. So one cannot really know what the date "means" and therefore cannot transcribe it. Moreover, the dating systems confuse both people transcribing the records, and the people who recorded the records. The exact original Quaker records on my great-great grandfather show him born one year and two months after his mother died. Only logical explanaiton is that his mother died when he was born in January 1804, and not only was the date reocrded in the Quaker (Puritan) dating system in the records, but because it was the "real" new year the recorder got confused and "forgot" to write 1804. Either that or the correct Quaker date WAS the previous year, consistently with calling it month 11, it confuses anyone. I've also seen dates transcribed differently for the seame person. One person was christened same date, 1636/1637 and 1638/1639. The only thing that can be done in such a context is to record teh date exactly as I found it. Not guess what is "really" the year. Yours, Dora --- [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 9/16/02 7:44:47 AM Mountain > Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Does anyone know of a genealogy program that > imports > > GEDCOM's from PAF > > Dora, which version of PAF do you have? the newer > 5.0 version has more > options than the 4.0 and earlier. It is also a free > download. > > I would advise you to play with PAF a little. Click > on the tabs at the top > and see what is in them. See what it will do before > you go to another > program. > > I have PAF along with Ancestral Quest. I'm happy > with both. Ancestral Quest > does some nice reports. I haven't put pictures in, > but I know that it will > do so. > > Aleta, IBSSG, Charter Member > Bo-Peep Award > > Ogden, Utah, USA > > "God sent his Singers upon the Earth, With songs of > Gladness and Mirth. That > they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them > to Heaven again." > --Longfellow > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com