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    1. Re: [HANDCART-L] Software
    2. Ronald Colby
    3. Try FAMILY ORIGINS 6.0 Has variable fact fields, over 100 and you can even creat your own. All temples are listed Temple ready 4 ways to config. dates Supports all LDS functions. Has date calculator and the list goes on When you want to Edit a person all facts are listed, you don't have to change screens. AND guess what the writer of the program lives in Utah and has a mail list on rootsweb and he monitors the list and jumps in and gives answers. When purchassing make sure you buy the book "Getting the Most Out of Family Origins" this book is worth its weight in gold FAMILY ORIGINS is dist. by Parsons Tech. Deseret Book carries this program. I have looked into alot of programs FTM, PAF, Ancestry, and several DOS program and found FO to be the most user friendly of all. Sorry about the commerical, but I like what I like. Ron Colby ---------- 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

    08/06/1998 08:25:27