On Jan 31, 4:49 pm, singhals <singh...@erols.com> wrote: > Charlie Hoffpauir wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:03:23 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber > > <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > >>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:02:34 -0800 (PST), > >>"leonardodiserpierodavi...@gmail.com" > >><leonardodiserpierodavi...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in > >>soc.genealogy.computing: > > >>>I installed PAF a few weeks ago and as far as I remember it did not > >>>have the option to import GED files. > >>>Thanks for the links. > > >>        Really? > > >>        PAF is, as I recall, produced by the people who, theoretically, > >>/define/ what is a GEDCOM file... It would seem rather odd that it > >>wouldn't import their own data transfer file... > > > Apparently Leonardo is commenting without really learning how to use > > the programs that he has downloaded. I'm still waiting for the names > > of the 3 programs he downloaded that will not import GEDCOM files. > > > I must have tried about 20 different programs over the last 20 years, > > and I really didn't find a single one that wouldn't read the basic > > data from a GEDCOM. Not all did a decent job of it, but I was able to > > get names, and bmd dates. > > The Family Edge /DOS (TFE) in its freeware version did not > do GED.  In fact, IRRC, even the paid version required a > utility to do GED. > > A freebie that didn't do GED was something called > "Genealogy" -- OTOH, maybe what it didn't do was work on any > of my boxes rather than not doing GED, since I never got to > the point where I could even do dataentry with it. > > Eucalyptus a shareware out of Oz didn't do GED either. > > OTOH, all those programs have been defunct for more than 8 > years, and I didn't even know you could still d/l 'em. > >   Cheryl- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Bad genealogy programs, like bad genealogy, seem to float around the net forever. *GRIN*