Hi Terry, In some ways you can finish a family by cutting the generations in half. I am doing our McArthur line in two parts. Our immigrant came to Tasmania in 1857, their marriage took place in 1856 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, I have yet to find John McArthurs true date and place of birth in Scotland, but I am not going to dwell on that date as I may never find out, so I am starting at his approx year of birth 1828 according to his age on the marriage certificate which was 28 and I have the names of his parents as they are on his marriage certificate,, no birth for him there though. I am taking the family to 1957 so the first one hundred years. Then Part two I am starting at 1910, the birth of the next generation character and that will be on going for a little while at least. I am waiting for the rest of the births for this last generation to be born,then I may start again with part three as I already have sufficient records, newspaper clippings, photos for the second part. That! is it for the Australian side of our family. My Lincs famiy, I think I have as much as can be found for the time being, that is my maternal family, along with my paternal family, of Yorkshire and Middlesex, that should be enough to be interesting to complete another side of the family history. you can just keep creating new episodes, hopefully someone will keep it going after we have gone. For now though, I have enough to finish part one, for each side of our family, maternal and paternal on both of our families. Edie ------------------------------------------ From: Terry Wells <terry.wells@talktalk.net> To: eamca@bigpond.com; eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com; ovington.one@gmail.com; Subject: PAF (and others) Edie says: ". I can't wait to finish at least one family........." I don't believe this ever happens! Terry -----Original Message----- From: eamca@bigpond.com [mailto:eamca@bigpond.com] Sent: 30 March 2016 12:08 To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com; ovington.one@gmail.com Subject: Re: [LIN] Admin. note: Research Thank you Nivard, I know PAF has been in use for many years since about the time I started my family history many moons ago. I use family tree maker 2014. So far I have never needed support as we do have workshops at our family history society which helps a bit, but I dont have much trouble anyway. The fun will start when I go to print out a family history book one day. As you say though some of the programs including family tree maker have features you will never use. I cant wait to finish at least one family to produce a booklet just for the family not for the general public. Edie ------------------------------------------