Dora, have you tried Legacy? They have the 3.0 edition free on their website. It will even help you make a great webpage! Rhonda IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dora Smith" <[email protected]> : Does anyone know of a genealogy program that imports : GEDCOM's from PAF and puts out nice reports, "books" : with pictures and stories and that sort of thing? : : I got an older version, 7.0, of Family Tree Maker : Deluxe Edition, and it can't even import dates. It : drops or mangles Puritan dates, such as 4 Nov 1626/27, : which the members of the FTM tech support list spent : extensive time telling me isn't a valid GEDCOM date : even though PAF is the creator of the GEDCOM standard : and the date is both valid and common for the period. : : It has trouble if you don't write "about" correctly, : and the paf form is "abt", and it may have trouble : with 1636-1637! : : I've got people telling me I've got to go back and : manually reenter all of those dates, and in FTM format : so that 1636/1637 abecomes 1636-1637, which loses the : fact that it's a Puritan date and makes it look : ambiguous. With a large database of course I'm not : going to do that. : : There also seem to be other bugs not designed with : people serious about genealogy in mind, such as : "books" have indexes but they don't let you list dates : or identification numbers with the names! : : Another problem people were reporting; FTM mangles : facts and attributes on importing such that if you : list occupation, date and place the actual occupation : gets listedin the place field. : : It is the height of stupid that any genealogical : program can't import from PAF - does anyone know of a : program that does it better? I'm a little scared to : go out and try another program now. : : Only reason why I want another program is to do nice : reports; I am satisfied with PAF for data entry and : exchange. : : Come to think of it, noone has ever sent me a GEDCOM : that the details were mangled when I opened the file. : PAF obviously imports from other programs without : mangling! : : Dora