Hi, Are you saying that When I open (any & All) files in PAF I will be able to use the "Insight" capabilities on each of them? Thanks, JC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Rands" <rrands@cfmc.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PAF-Insight question. > PAF Insight attaches itself to the PAF program, not to a database. So it > will be available for whichever database you have opened in your PAF > program at the time. > > Richard > > At 05:22 PM 3/27/2005 -0700, Claudia M. Christensen wrote: > >Will Insight attatch itself to "ALL" of my PAF files or just to the one > >currently open? > >JC > > > > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search > >http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > Having trouble with the software? Check PAF 5.x Information > http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uinfo.php > >

> Are you saying that When I open (any & All) files in > PAF I will be able to use the "Insight" capabilities > on each of them? That is correct. Aloha, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Rands" <rrands@cfmc.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] PAF-Insight question. > PAF Insight attaches itself to the PAF program, not to a database. So it > will be available for whichever database you have opened in your PAF > program at the time. > > Richard > > At 05:22 PM 3/27/2005 -0700, Claudia M. Christensen wrote: > >Will Insight attatch itself to "ALL" of my PAF files or just to the one > >currently open? > >JC > > > > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search > >http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > Having trouble with the software? Check PAF 5.x Information > http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uinfo.php > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/

Bill, on my computer nothing gets installed "by default" :-). I control exactly where programs are installed. As I wrote in my message, all my genealogical programs, data, GEDCOM files, utilities, images, research, etc., are all saved on their own exclusive drive partition. Each program has its own folder and within each of those folders I have a DATA folder. When I backup, within the various programs, the backups go to a special folder on another partition. This folder contains backups from other places as well. Periodically I burn the contents of this folder to CD's. As for backing up data contained in other non-genealogical folders, I have other programs to handle that. Outlook and its associated settings are backed up by Outback Plus daily. Outback Plus in its latest version will also back up the contents of My Documents if that option is set. I back up my Registry regularly (at least weekly) using either Regedit or ERUNT. I never have backed up my Desktop as I leave very little on there (only shortcuts) and it can easily be rebuilt if that was ever necessary. So, provided the correct methods are used, there is no problem with keeping data folders with the program or anywhere else. Having all data from all programs in one folder is another option which was suggested and I can see merit in that too. One thing, though, is you don't have to accept (by default) where Windows tells you something has to be saved to - you need to make that decision (if you want an organized computer, that is). Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Bill Linn [mailto:billinn@suscom.net] Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2005 6:41 AM To: Lance; PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Path mystery Just my 2 cents. I wouldn't save data files in Program Files, (where PAF-5 installs by default). When I back up I never include Program files. If all your data that changes on a regular basis is in My Documents or a sub folder within My Documents you only need to backup that folder, maybe including your Desktop, Registry, and Email. Regards, Bill

FTM is noted for the good variety of reports. It has also gained a reputation for having more bugs. Early on they implemented a version of the GEDCOM file that was based on a pre-release of the current GEDCOM standard. Later they added the capability to generate a PAF compatible GEDCOM file. Due to its early deficiencies I believe that it was written by non-genealogists who did not listen to their genealogical consultants. Every year before Christmas they will pester you with promotions for the newest version of FTM. The advertising is skillfully written to suggest that the new "improvements" are much better and more desireable than they actually are. They are probably the most successful commercial genealogical database. They are certainly the most heavily promoted genealogical program. Consider: when the FTM company goes out of business the program will become an "orphan". That will not happen with PAF. Richard L. Halliday West Linn, Oregon > I am fairly new to PAF having used FTM for year. > > Cna someone tell me what the biggest difference are and how you would > compare the two? > > Glenny > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/ >

What is the source of the document? That is what you would reference. > > From: "James Hunter Railey" <jrailey1@houston.rr.com> > Date: 2005/03/27 Sun PM 11:07:00 EST > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAF-5] New to PAF Question > > I have a source that offers information about the existence of a person and > a relationship (father to son). No further traditional genealogical > information is offered (birth death, marriage, etc). How do I cite this > document as the source of the existence of a person and their relationship > to someone? > > Thanks in advance for the help > > -----Original Message----- > From: alanjones10@cox.net [mailto:alanjones10@cox.net] > Sent: 27 March, 2005 9:34 PM > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAF-5] New to PAF > > > FTM costs $ > PAF is free > > I understand from my FTM user friends that the new FTM 2005 is more and more > like PAF. > > While I have used various genealogy programs I find it hard to compare. They > are just different. In this case FTM may provide more types of > reports/printouts. PAF only has 23. It is kinda like how would we compare a > Chevy and a Ford, the answer is all opinions and prejudices? > > > From: "Glenny~~Capriella" <capriella@earthlink.net> > > Date: 2005/03/27 Sun PM 05:30:57 EST > > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [PAF-5] New to PAF > > > > I am fairly new to PAF having used FTM for year. > > > > Cna someone tell me what the biggest difference are and how you would > > compare the two? > > > > Glenny > > > > > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > > RootsWeb > > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > Having trouble with the software? Check PAF 5.x Information > http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uinfo.php > >

Just my 2 cents. I wouldn't save data files in Program Files, (where PAF-5 installs by default). When I back up I never include Program files. If all your data that changes on a regular basis is in My Documents or a sub folder within My Documents you only need to backup that folder, maybe including your Desktop, Registry, and Email. Regards, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Path mystery > Good explanation, Linda, and one that many, including Betty, probably need > to heed. > > Another good place to "save" your PAF data is within the PAF folder (where > you have the program installed). Just create a DATA folder in there and > direct PAF to store all your data files there. Then you don't have to > search > all around your hard drive for them. You have all your PAF "stuff" in one > place :-). I have several genealogical programs. They are all on one > drive. > Each has its own DATA folder within the parent folder for each program. > For > IMAGES, I do have one "common" IMAGE folder in which I save all of my > family > history related images used by all the programs. I just "tell" each > program > where the images are (in that folder). > > The trick with Windows, Betty, is to remember you don't have to follow the > path it suggests for saving something. You can browse to an existing > folder > anywhere on your computer or create a new one if needed. Windows just > suggests things like MY DOCUMENTS by default. It is up to you to take > charge > and make the decision as to what happens on your computer. > > Lance > > P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy > program can be downloaded FREE at > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linda [mailto:geneamarm@if.rmci.net] > Sent: Monday, 28 March 2005 11:02 AM > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAF-5] Path mystery > > Here's my guess(es): > > Way back when you first started using PAF and really didn't have a clue to > where things were going (I'm not insulting anyone, I've been there, done > that!) you saved your file, but not having told the computer where to put > it, it shrugged its shoulders and put it where it thought you were telling > it to. Second, you probably didn't set your preferences for where files > are > to be saved. If you have not done this, you need to do so--go to > Tools-Preferences-folders to set this up. Once you have this set up, you > don't have to type in the entire path to find the file you want. PAF will > know where to look. Then you need to move the smith file over there. > > By the way, just a personal preference, I prefer to create a Family > History > folder under "My Documents", then have all the PAF databases saved there. > This is designated in the Preferences, so when I want to work on a file I > haven't used for awhile, when I select "Open" in the PAF menu, it goes > straight to that folder. All my PAF names and other family history > documents are there, without any other files not related to family > history. > > Linda > >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: betty [mailto:ashleybvm@netptc.net] >>>>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:46 AM >>>>To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >>>>Subject: [PAF-5] Path mystery >>>> >>>>I'm getting too old for these mysteries! >>>> >>>>I decided to work on a particular file which has been dormant for a >>>>while >>>>- I'll call it Smith. >>>> >>>>First I click on PAF5 shortcut and get a list of files with path as >>>>follows: >>>> >>>>C:\Documents and Settings\Betty Ashley\My Documents\surname.paf >>>>(several >>>>different surnames) But NO Smith file comes up. By the way I don't >>>>like >>>>this long, long path but because I don't know what I am doing, that is >>>>how my computer did it. >>>> >>>>So I did a search and up comes the following along with all the other >>>>long surname paths: >>>> >>>>Simply C:\Betty.paf !!!! How did this happen? I clicked on >>>>it, >>>>and there was my Smith file! How did it get in my root directory? Of >>>>course it does not come up with the others with the PAF shortcut ... As >>>>far as I know, it used to be available when I clicked the PAF shortcut. >>>> >>>>Can anyone explain this mysterious happening? And does everyone have >>>>such a circuitous path to their files? Thanks ..... Betty >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >>>>PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search >>>>http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 2005-03-27 > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index > Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > >

Good explanation, Linda, and one that many, including Betty, probably need to heed. Another good place to "save" your PAF data is within the PAF folder (where you have the program installed). Just create a DATA folder in there and direct PAF to store all your data files there. Then you don't have to search all around your hard drive for them. You have all your PAF "stuff" in one place :-). I have several genealogical programs. They are all on one drive. Each has its own DATA folder within the parent folder for each program. For IMAGES, I do have one "common" IMAGE folder in which I save all of my family history related images used by all the programs. I just "tell" each program where the images are (in that folder). The trick with Windows, Betty, is to remember you don't have to follow the path it suggests for saving something. You can browse to an existing folder anywhere on your computer or create a new one if needed. Windows just suggests things like MY DOCUMENTS by default. It is up to you to take charge and make the decision as to what happens on your computer. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Linda [mailto:geneamarm@if.rmci.net] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2005 11:02 AM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] Path mystery Here's my guess(es): Way back when you first started using PAF and really didn't have a clue to where things were going (I'm not insulting anyone, I've been there, done that!) you saved your file, but not having told the computer where to put it, it shrugged its shoulders and put it where it thought you were telling it to. Second, you probably didn't set your preferences for where files are to be saved. If you have not done this, you need to do so--go to Tools-Preferences-folders to set this up. Once you have this set up, you don't have to type in the entire path to find the file you want. PAF will know where to look. Then you need to move the smith file over there. By the way, just a personal preference, I prefer to create a Family History folder under "My Documents", then have all the PAF databases saved there. This is designated in the Preferences, so when I want to work on a file I haven't used for awhile, when I select "Open" in the PAF menu, it goes straight to that folder. All my PAF names and other family history documents are there, without any other files not related to family history. Linda >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: betty [mailto:ashleybvm@netptc.net] >>>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:46 AM >>>To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >>>Subject: [PAF-5] Path mystery >>> >>>I'm getting too old for these mysteries! >>> >>>I decided to work on a particular file which has been dormant for a while >>>- I'll call it Smith. >>> >>>First I click on PAF5 shortcut and get a list of files with path as >>>follows: >>> >>>C:\Documents and Settings\Betty Ashley\My Documents\surname.paf (several >>>different surnames) But NO Smith file comes up. By the way I don't like >>>this long, long path but because I don't know what I am doing, that is >>>how my computer did it. >>> >>>So I did a search and up comes the following along with all the other >>>long surname paths: >>> >>>Simply C:\Betty.paf !!!! How did this happen? I clicked on it, >>>and there was my Smith file! How did it get in my root directory? Of >>>course it does not come up with the others with the PAF shortcut ... As >>>far as I know, it used to be available when I clicked the PAF shortcut. >>> >>>Can anyone explain this mysterious happening? And does everyone have >>>such a circuitous path to their files? Thanks ..... Betty >>> >>> >>> >>>==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >>>PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search >>>http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 2005-03-27

PAF PAL is an add-on to PAF. It gives it some additional features. This website lists them http://www.cannonfam.org/pafpal/ > > From: CaroRaine@aol.com > Date: 2005/03/27 Sun PM 07:23:32 EST > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAF-5] PAF PAL? > > Could someone tell me what PAF PAL is? > > Thanks! > > Carole > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > Having trouble with the software? Check PAF 5.x Information > http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uinfo.php > >

FTM costs $ PAF is free I understand from my FTM user friends that the new FTM 2005 is more and more like PAF. While I have used various genealogy programs I find it hard to compare. They are just different. In this case FTM may provide more types of reports/printouts. PAF only has 23. It is kinda like how would we compare a Chevy and a Ford, the answer is all opinions and prejudices? > From: "Glenny~~Capriella" <capriella@earthlink.net> > Date: 2005/03/27 Sun PM 05:30:57 EST > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAF-5] New to PAF > > I am fairly new to PAF having used FTM for year. > > Cna someone tell me what the biggest difference are and how you would > compare the two? > > Glenny > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > >

I have a source that offers information about the existence of a person and a relationship (father to son). No further traditional genealogical information is offered (birth death, marriage, etc). How do I cite this document as the source of the existence of a person and their relationship to someone? Thanks in advance for the help -----Original Message----- From: alanjones10@cox.net [mailto:alanjones10@cox.net] Sent: 27 March, 2005 9:34 PM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAF-5] New to PAF FTM costs $ PAF is free I understand from my FTM user friends that the new FTM 2005 is more and more like PAF. While I have used various genealogy programs I find it hard to compare. They are just different. In this case FTM may provide more types of reports/printouts. PAF only has 23. It is kinda like how would we compare a Chevy and a Ford, the answer is all opinions and prejudices? > From: "Glenny~~Capriella" <capriella@earthlink.net> > Date: 2005/03/27 Sun PM 05:30:57 EST > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAF-5] New to PAF > > I am fairly new to PAF having used FTM for year. > > Cna someone tell me what the biggest difference are and how you would > compare the two? > > Glenny > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS

Thanks for the good explanations from y'all, about how XP was involved in my mystery. I guess I'm stuck in the old age of DOS, and these new-fangled things seem 'way too complicated! I appreciate your clear instructions. Betty

Hi James. On the Edit Individual Screen, your will find a button on the right side just below the notes and multimedia buttons labelled Individual sources. Use that option to enter a source and citation that is non-specific such as a relationship that does not have a specific event associated with it. Richard Rands At 10:07 PM 3/27/2005 -0600, James Hunter Railey wrote: >I have a source that offers information about the existence of a person and >a relationship (father to son). No further traditional genealogical >information is offered (birth death, marriage, etc). How do I cite this >document as the source of the existence of a person and their relationship >to someone? > >Thanks in advance for the help > >-----Original Message----- >From: alanjones10@cox.net [mailto:alanjones10@cox.net] >Sent: 27 March, 2005 9:34 PM >To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [PAF-5] New to PAF > > >FTM costs $ >PAF is free > >I understand from my FTM user friends that the new FTM 2005 is more and more >like PAF. > >While I have used various genealogy programs I find it hard to compare. They >are just different. In this case FTM may provide more types of >reports/printouts. PAF only has 23. It is kinda like how would we compare a >Chevy and a Ford, the answer is all opinions and prejudices? > > > From: "Glenny~~Capriella" <capriella@earthlink.net> > > Date: 2005/03/27 Sun PM 05:30:57 EST > > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [PAF-5] New to PAF > > > > I am fairly new to PAF having used FTM for year. > > > > Cna someone tell me what the biggest difference are and how you would > > compare the two? > > > > Glenny > > > > > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > > RootsWeb > > http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search >http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >Having trouble with the software? Check PAF 5.x Information >http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uinfo.php

----- Original Message ----- From: "betty" <ashleybvm@netptc.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:45 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Path mystery > C:\Documents and Settings\Betty Ashley\My Documents\surname.paf (several different surnames) But NO Smith file comes up. By the way I don't like this long, long path but because I don't know what I am doing, that is how my computer did it. This long path is the default because you are using a computer with a multi-user Operating System like Windows XP. Even though you could have multiple users in W95, W98, or ME, most people only had one. With W2K or XP, there is automatically an Administrator account and generally at least one other user. The computer uses those paths to prevent co-mingling your saved files. If you logged on as Administrator, the default save path would be to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\, which is a *different* My Documents folder than yours. Microsoft thought that by giving every user their own My documents folder and having the computer default to saving all their "stuff" there, it would be simpler. > > So I did a search and up comes the following along with all the other long surname paths: > > Simply C:\Betty.paf !!!! How did this happen? I clicked on it, and there was my Smith file! How did it get in my root directory? Of course it does not come up with the others with the PAF shortcut ... As far as I know, it used to be available when I clicked the PAF shortcut. The computer didn't move the file of its own volition. My guess is that is where it was saved to previously, for reasons now buried in obscurity. Then, everything you have done since was saved in the Windows default path. Also, since you hadn't worked on that one for a while, it dropped off the recent file list. If you close PAF with a file open, it re-opens with the same file. However, under the file menu will be a list of the 4 most recently accessed files. Gary Templeman

Could someone tell me what PAF PAL is? Thanks! Carole

----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: RE: [PAF-5] Path mystery > Good explanation, Linda, and one that many, including Betty, probably need > to heed. > > Another good place to "save" your PAF data is within the PAF folder (where > you have the program installed). Just create a DATA folder in there and > direct PAF to store all your data files there. Then you don't have to search > all around your hard drive for them. You have all your PAF "stuff" in one > place :-). I have several genealogical programs. They are all on one drive. > Each has its own DATA folder within the parent folder for each program. For > IMAGES, I do have one "common" IMAGE folder in which I save all of my family > history related images used by all the programs. I just "tell" each program > where the images are (in that folder). > > The trick with Windows, Betty, is to remember you don't have to follow the > path it suggests for saving something. You can browse to an existing folder > anywhere on your computer or create a new one if needed. Windows just > suggests things like MY DOCUMENTS by default. It is up to you to take charge > and make the decision as to what happens on your computer. > > Lance Having dedicated places to save data is worthwhile. My preference however is to NOT have each of them as sub-folders within the specific programs. Rather, I like to create a single Data folder on either the C drive or another drive, and make the sub folders within it. Some advantages I see are: 1. Never having to drill down more than two layers to get to a file and not having to remember the sometimes unintuitive program folder names 2. Easy automation for backups. It is much easier to configure a program (I use Karen's Replicator, free at www.karenware.com) to only have to copy the single Data folder to another location rather than making separate jobs for each data file I want to copy. 3. No worries that data might be lost if a program needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled, usually not a problem but I never trust programmers ;-). The downside is that some programs balk at having their data files in some other place. Gary Templeman

PAF Insight attaches itself to the PAF program, not to a database. So it will be available for whichever database you have opened in your PAF program at the time. Richard At 05:22 PM 3/27/2005 -0700, Claudia M. Christensen wrote: >Will Insight attatch itself to "ALL" of my PAF files or just to the one >currently open? >JC > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search >http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS

Here's my guess(es): Way back when you first started using PAF and really didn't have a clue to where things were going (I'm not insulting anyone, I've been there, done that!) you saved your file, but not having told the computer where to put it, it shrugged its shoulders and put it where it thought you were telling it to. Second, you probably didn't set your preferences for where files are to be saved. If you have not done this, you need to do so--go to Tools-Preferences-folders to set this up. Once you have this set up, you don't have to type in the entire path to find the file you want. PAF will know where to look. Then you need to move the smith file over there. By the way, just a personal preference, I prefer to create a Family History folder under "My Documents", then have all the PAF databases saved there. This is designated in the Preferences, so when I want to work on a file I haven't used for awhile, when I select "Open" in the PAF menu, it goes straight to that folder. All my PAF names and other family history documents are there, without any other files not related to family history. Linda >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: betty [mailto:ashleybvm@netptc.net] >>>Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 11:46 AM >>>To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com >>>Subject: [PAF-5] Path mystery >>> >>>I'm getting too old for these mysteries! >>> >>>I decided to work on a particular file which has been dormant for a while >>>- I'll call it Smith. >>> >>>First I click on PAF5 shortcut and get a list of files with path as >>>follows: >>> >>>C:\Documents and Settings\Betty Ashley\My Documents\surname.paf (several >>>different surnames) But NO Smith file comes up. By the way I don't like >>>this long, long path but because I don't know what I am doing, that is >>>how my computer did it. >>> >>>So I did a search and up comes the following along with all the other >>>long surname paths: >>> >>>Simply C:\Betty.paf !!!! How did this happen? I clicked on it, >>>and there was my Smith file! How did it get in my root directory? Of >>>course it does not come up with the others with the PAF shortcut ... As >>>far as I know, it used to be available when I clicked the PAF shortcut. >>> >>>Can anyone explain this mysterious happening? And does everyone have >>>such a circuitous path to their files? Thanks ..... Betty >>> >>> >>> >>>==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >>>PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search >>>http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS

I am fairly new to PAF having used FTM for year. Cna someone tell me what the biggest difference are and how you would compare the two? Glenny

Will Insight attatch itself to "ALL" of my PAF files or just to the one currently open? JC

Hello folks. I'm working on a one-name project. I have a set of individuals whom I suspect may be related. I'd like to generate a timeline of their life events as an initial step to see if this theory is worth further investigation. Is there any way to do this in baseline PAF-5, or would I need an add-on? I'm not looking for historical events, just a way to display the life events of a selected set of individuals, sorted by date. Donna Hrynkiw Currently examining HRYNKIW births and deaths in Minnisota.