I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't want to convert to PAF 3.0 I, too, have 26K names on the hard disk and several floppies with other PAF files. I'm a ward family history counselor, and I hate using 3.0 because it doesn't have some of my favorite shortcuts and features. For example, in PAF 2.31, you can print a sorted list starting with a specified RIN or MRIN number. This is really useful when you've added a GEDCOM. You print all the names starting with the last one before you added the GEDCOM; this gives you a RIN order list of all your new records. Under 3.0, you have to specify the PAGE you want to print. How in the heck is someone supposed to figure out what page record #19,999 will appear on? PAF 3.0 doesn't have SOUNDEX search anymore. This is really handy when you're going to do census searches. For example, I printed a family group record with the names of ten children and the husbands of the daughters. I got this from names in a partition suit (to divide up a piece of land among the heirs). Next to each daughter's name, I wrote in the SOUNDEX code for the husband. When I went to the library at lunch today, I just zipped through the microfilm reels, since I didn't have to stop and figure out the codes. I realize that in today's Windows environment, PAF was going to have to change in order to compete with more commercial programs, but I was perfectly happy with the old PAF! At only $15, it's easily within reach just about everyone. There are some PAF utilities that allow you to print books and do descendancies in standard numbering formats. I haven't bought one before now because I was trying to decide whether to upgrade to 3.0. I only hope that the FHCs will continue to allow users to create GEDCOMS in either 3.0 or 2.31 and lower. ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: [HANDCART-L] Software Author: JCBrooks@aol.com Date: 8/6/98 3:53 PM I am about ready to scream....I have been using PAF 2.31 for what seems like forever and thought I'd better upgrade to 3.0. I hesitated because of the glitches but was assured that 3.0M would fix all that. So I downloaded all my info into 3.0...and started adding more....such as completed temple data, etc. and a few new families I researched recently. I am SOOOOOOOO frustrated with 3.0......you can't default, you can't insert without hitting a special key each time, the ditto function is a pain in the neck...and the family group sheet print outs are UGLY....and I can't get rid of all those useless notes that I don't even have..it just prints extra pages with names. The PAF Companion is also a pain in the next....the family group sheets require so much paper...my personal family has four kids...it used to take one page to print it..now it takes two. that's not a big deal unless you have a 30000 name database like I do and want to print out. So, what software have all of you LDS researchers turned to that is user friendly and allows for TempleReady? I had hoped to do a book someday and get a scanner...which software imports those things well? Ideas...opinions? Michele Brooks Received: from sirius.tmac.com (192.206.250.5) by ccmail.tmac.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 2.12 Enterprise) id 00003449; Thu, 6 Aug 98 15:53:08 -0400 Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) by sirius.tmac.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA08071 for <Durfee_Lynda@tmac.com>; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 15:59:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10553; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:55:14 -0700 (PDT) From: JCBrooks@aol.com Message-ID: <1469c6f9.35ca09cb@aol.com> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 15:53:43 EDT Old-To: jensenet@vii.com, HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 Subject: [HANDCART-L] Software Resent-Message-ID: <"wTzbWD.A.qgC.Zogy1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/907 X-Loop: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: HANDCART-L-request@rootsweb.com