Can some one out there tell me a bit about PDA's? At this point I know nothing about them. I am using PAF version 5.0 What does one have to have to move PAF from the windows side of a Mac iBook to a PDA? Do PDA's take the USB flash drives (those little key fob like things? I think that is what they are called.) Can a PDF be hooked to a printer? I will be spending sometime in Salt Lake this fall. I don't want to take my laptop and I don't want to have to take huge notebooks full of paper in order to have my info to work from if I can get out of it. Also I am not keen on taking my computer. Any ideas, suggestions etc. would be most helpful. Thanks Janice Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:[email protected] "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the following conferences: NGS Conference 1-4 June 2005, Nashville Tennessee FGS Conference 9-10 Sept 2005, Salt Lake City Public service site http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html

Hi Janice, I have my genealogy records on my PDA. I currently have a PalmOne Tungsten T5. Just previous to that I had a Sony Clie, which is no longer made. The PDAs I have used use the Palm Operating System. GedStar Pro is the software I have on my PDA for my genealogical records. It does a conversion between The Master Genealogist database to GedStarPro so that I can load it on my PDA. The way PDAs work is that you hook them to your computer via a USB port and "hotsync" the information between the two. You don't need These are the questions you need to ask yourself: 1. Do you want a PALM OS or POCKET PC operating system? I have always had PALM OS, because there are more programs made for them still. POCKET PCs are gaining in popularity though, and that might change. There is a program called the Pocket Genealogist that works with Pocket PCs. 2. Now that I think about it, I don't know if POCKET PC's, which are Windows based will hotsync with a Mac. You need to make sure that whatever you get has desktop software for the Mac. That's necessary for hotsyncing between the two. 3. You need to make sure that you can do a good conversion of your records from PAF, since that's what you use. I imagine that all of the PDA genealogy software will at least let you convert a Gedcom file, but as you know, you may lose some of your information by converting from your genealogy database to Gedcom. 4. Then you need to chose your PDA genealogy software. I've used GedStarPro and My Roots. GedStarPro is definitely more full featured and even gives the full citations for your sources and repositories. I am not able to enter data with GedStarPro, but just to look at what I already have entered on my computer. I'm hoping this is helpful. Hopefully you don't plan to be up an run next week! There's a bit of learning curve with PDAs. Let me know if I can be of any further help. I teach PDA skills at work, so I do know something about it. Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice M. Healy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:18 PM Subject: [GFO] PDA info needed > Can some one out there tell me a bit about PDA's? At this point I know > nothing about them. > > I am using PAF version 5.0 > > What does one have to have to move PAF from the windows side of a Mac > iBook to a PDA? > > Do PDA's take the USB flash drives (those little key fob like things? I > think that is what they are called.) > > Can a PDF be hooked to a printer? > > I will be spending sometime in Salt Lake this fall. I don't want to take > my laptop and I don't want to have to take huge notebooks full of paper in > order to have my info to work from if I can get out of it. Also I am not > keen on taking my computer. > > Any ideas, suggestions etc. would be most helpful. > > Thanks > Janice > > > Janice M. Healy > Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" > > Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. > Mailto:[email protected] > > "Oregon Burial Site Guide" > http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html > Plan ahead for the following conferences: > NGS Conference 1-4 June 2005, Nashville Tennessee > FGS Conference 9-10 Sept 2005, Salt Lake City > > Public service site > http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html > > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that > contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >