Hi Richard As you may be aware Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is an older version of Ancestral Quest (AQ). The two are compatible and AQ is now offering support for former PAF users. My understanding is that the facility to "tag" notes in the way you have done is unique to PAF/older versions of AQ. Other programs including the current version of AQ achieve the same result by allowing notes, citations and images to be attached to facts as discrete items. In Family Tree Maker (FTM), for example, you can attach a note to an individual, to a fact and to a source. I migrated from PAF to AQ and then to FTM and had used note tags for occupation and address in PAF. These did transfer to the individual's note section in AQ and from there to FTM with spacing between each piece of text though the actual "tag" functionality was lost on the first transfer. However, I've been deleting these notes ever since as it is so much better adding facts to the individual's record for occupation, residence etc. with their own notes and images attached. As an aside, I did find a big problem with images attached to sources. In PAF and AQ you can add only a single image to a source (e.g. an image of a census return) but unless you have a unique citation for each fact all the images get bundled together behind the scenes. To all intents and purposes it is a hidden problem that I did not discover until I tried to print out a book report with Images from AQ. The support people for AQ asked for a copy of my data so that they could identify the problem and then proceeded to ignore me in spite of numerous reminders hence I switched to FTM. The Ancestry people were very up front about the problems I would face in transferring my data pointing out, without prompting, that the difference in database design would cause an issue especially with regard to images. No doubt it would have been possible to get a script written to put things in the right places but I decided to take the bull by the horns and review all my citations manually,! it is taking for ever but I am spotting a lot of errors in the process. Colin -----Original Message----- From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of richardkendell Sent: 28 February 2014 10:36 To: cheshire@rootsweb.com Subject: [CHS] MOVE FROM PAF I am considering moving from PAF to one of the “new” Family History programs and have downloaded free versions to see how I get on with them. With the exception of Ancestral Quest I have a problem, I cannot get my notes from PAF to transfer as I would wish. In PAF I have divided my notes for all records into separate sub categories eg Occupation, Military Service, Newspaper cuttings, Burial Details, Will, Hearth Tax, Census data etc. When I transfer to the new programs (with the exception of Ancestral Quest) I get the notes coming across in one large block of test with no division into sub categories or, as far as I can see, any method of easily achieving that end. Does anyone know if Legacy or RootsMagic actually do what I want or if I am seeking to achieve the impossible. If the former does anyone have any tips on how to achieve what I want? Richard ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message