Here is the latest message from PAF users group. I mentioned them to you. Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: <PAF-5-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:00 AM Subject: PAF-5-USERS-D Digest V05 #54

when a tab is grayed out it means that the individual/marriage has a tag but that the tag is not in the configured master list of tags. if you click on the all tags note then you will be able to see all of the notes and perhaps change the tag for this one note. another option would be to add the tag to the master list of notes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nobia" <nobia@centurytel.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:31 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Note Selector Screen >I use the note selector screen. Some of my tagged notes are grayed out. I >have notes in military and when I click it the notes come up, but >"Military" is grayed out. Would like to know why, and how to delete notes >that are grayed out in my tagged notes. > Thank you for your help. > > Bette > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: > Connecting the World One GEDCOM at a Time > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > >

I use the note selector screen. Some of my tagged notes are grayed out. I have notes in military and when I click it the notes come up, but "Military" is grayed out. Would like to know why, and how to delete notes that are grayed out in my tagged notes. Thank you for your help. Bette

At 08:41 PM 3/13/2005 -0700, Claudia M. Christensen wrote: >I have been asked WHY Insight? Is there someone that could help me answer >this question.(Simply) >How it works and why it is such a huge help with PAF. I'll take a stab at it. PAF Insight works like a "plug-in" to PAF to give you the ability to do several highly useful tasks. When you install Insight, it adds itself to the Tools menu. When you select the PAF Insight menu choice, it pulls your PAF database into its work area and offers the following features: - Search IGI (A high speed, power searching of the IGI with ranking of search results and the option to merge unique data fields) - Compare and Synch two PAF databases (Identifying differences between two databases and merging of the unique data fields) - Match/Merge (Similar to Match/Merge in PAF except it highlights the differences) - Edit RINs and Pedigrees (Allows you to swap RINs between people and to identify disconnected pedigrees.) - Repair & Compact (A more comprehensive repair routine and a means to eliminate unused RINs to reduce space used by unused RINs) All changes to your database made using PAF Insight are queued up in the Insight work area and then applied to your database when you exit Insight provided you click OK. Richard Rands

I have been asked WHY Insight? Is there someone that could help me answer this question.(Simply) How it works and why it is such a huge help with PAF. JC

Dear List, Your answers to my request regarding backups have been very helpful. I didn't know there were such things as memory sticks. My family has read your answers too. But my son says he had the misfortune to lose his memory stick with several hours of work on it. He thinks it fell out of his computer case going through airport security. For my small database I will probably stick to floppies, but add the date each time. Before I had just added the date to the label. Occasionally I will do a CD-RW as an added backup. Have a good week. LaVerne, Researching BACHMANN, BOEHMKE, HEMMANN, HEINEMANN, LANDL, LINHARDT, OTTO, PIETSCHMANN, ROEHL, SEHLER, TELLE, ZACHARIAE, ZEITLER

THANKS EVERYONE!! JC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Rands" <rrands@cfmc.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Insight > www.ohanasoftware.com > > At 04:53 PM 3/11/2005 -0700, Claudia M. Christensen wrote: > >My "puter" is up and running again. I cannot find the address for > >downloading Insight. Anyone have it handy? Thanks Ahead > >JC > > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List > >http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uindex.php > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List > http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uindex.php >

Hi all, Someone asked on the recent Flash Drive thread how you can find out if you have USB 1 or USB 2 ports. Have a look at this page, it explains how to find this out: http://www.usbman.com/Guides/checking_for_usb_2.htm Regards, Andrew McPhee http://mixedbunch.com/

My "puter" is up and running again. I cannot find the address for downloading Insight. Anyone have it handy? Thanks Ahead JC

www.ohanasoftware.com At 04:53 PM 3/11/2005 -0700, Claudia M. Christensen wrote: >My "puter" is up and running again. I cannot find the address for >downloading Insight. Anyone have it handy? Thanks Ahead >JC > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >PAF-5-USERS Mailing List >http://www.ausbdm.org/p5uindex.php

Hi there, Is anyone willing to test a program that will allow you to use PAF5 files on a MacOSX or Unix flavor? Kind regards, Manfred Riem mriem@manorrock.org http://www.manorrock.org/

Richard, most USB2 devices will work with USB1 ports. They are just a little bit slower. Eldon J. Edgin 14908 Woodbriar Drive Dallas, Texas 75248 Phone: (972) 991-4891 eedgin@sbcglobal.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Rands" <rrands@cfmc.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:36 AM Subject: RE: [PAF-5] What is a Flash Drive/ > How do you find out what speed your USB hub is? The only way I know is to > plug a USB 2 device into it and see if you get a warning on the screen > saying that you have plugged a USD 2 device into a USB 1 port. It is only > a warning to let you know that the USB device will run slower than > expected. Since they look the same physically, and they don't seem to be > identified differently in the device table, I don't know any other way. I > am in the process of buying 1,000 little 4 port USB 1 hubs for my company > to give away at trade shows, and nowhere on the devices does it indicate > that it is a USB 1 hub. I suspect, however that if they were USB 2 hubs, > it would be marked as such. > > If you have a desktop machine, you can purchase a USB 2 interface card and > install it in your machine so that you will not have to buy a whole new > machine. These cards cost about $40. > > Richard Rands > > > > > > > At 08:28 PM 3/10/2005 -0500, Donna wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Richard Rands >> >><<Someone else mentioned the issue of USB 1 vs. USB 2, so it may be good >>to >>provide a little bit more info about this to help some of you avoid >>problems. If your machine is more than about a year old, your USB ports >>(if you have them) will more than likely be USB1.1 which are considerably >>slower than the new USB 2 ports. USB 1.1 runs at about 11 Mps whereas the >>USB 2.0 ports run at 480 Mps. Before you decide to purchase a Flash >>Drive, >>you ought to be sure you know what speed your computer's port is. Also, >>if >>you need to purchase a hub to add more USB ports, you need not buy a USB >>2.0 hub if your computer is only a USB 1.1 port.>> >> >>How can you find out what speed your USB port is? If you have the slower >>port, can nothing be done but buy a newer PC? >>Donna >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >>RootsWeb >>http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ >

Belarc Advisor (a free download) will give you plenty of information about your computer system; it is a short download and a short investigative run. Google "Belarc Advisor" to locate it on the Internet.

Don wrote: >>>>My Lexar jump drive worked so well that my son borrowed it to transfer files between home and work. Well, now you know what to give for a Christmas present! >>>>> Bad W98 requires drivers to be loaded for the jump drive - newer OS's do not have to have any drivers loaded. I don't know that I'd call this "bad", just inconvenient. I've downloaded drivers both at home and at the FHC (still on Windows 98) and it only takes a minute. It would be nice if the industry had a package of drivers so that we didn't have to download for each kind of flash drive, but then there really aren't that many, so it's still just an issue of convenience. Linda

All; For aver a year I have been using two Flash Memory plug ins on the USB ports on the front of my computer. I have had no trouble. I liked this arrangement so well that I purchased a 200 Gig external hard drive to use as a full system backup. This works well so far (complete backup = 3 1/2 hours and I have not yet figured how to make it backup only the new files). Today the first problem reared its ugly head. A friend came by ready to do check against the IIGI in preparation for submitting for temple work. His USB Flash Memory would not read on either of the two ports on the front of my computer. It did read on one of the ports at the rear. This suggests to me that there may be a problem with the connectors. It was mentioned that there may be a problem with the "cute, curvy" USB flash memory sticks. I have one of those. I cannot plug it into the port when there is anything plugged into the adjacent port. I have a flat USB flash memory stick (Kingston). It does not have the interference problem. Richard L. Halliday (once again having trouble with my e-mail because of Microsoft)

And here is another place to check: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form I keep both this and the RootsWeb locator icons (links) on my Task Bar, and always go first to RootsWeb and check all the places. I once found a city with the same name in 3 different places in the same state - REALLY confusing! I checked GNIS for Era, Pennsylvania. It brought up Eravel, Clinton, PA. Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeannie" <westfieldfleck-jhf@comcast.net> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:58 AM Subject: [PAF-5] Re: Not a PAF issue but ... maybe someone can help me > > Could it be ERIE, Erie County, Pennsylvania? > Here is the place I go to find out what county a city/town is in: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi > (If you type in the Town Name without the State Abbreviation, > it will return results of every occurrence of that city throughout > the USA. > ====== > :-) Jeannie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lorin Lund" <wbs@infowest.com> > To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:26 PM > Subject: Not a PAF issue but ... maybe someone can help me > > | I recall hearing or reading about a web site for looking up > | old location names that are not currently used. > | > | I'm looking for Era, PA. > | > | We have that as the birth place of > | Meredith /Fisk/ 26 Jan 1845 > | > | His mother died while crossing the plains. His father > | handed the baby over to someone else and turned back. > | > | The adoptive parents were Ira Ames and Catherine Slayson but > | we want to find the birth mother too. > | > | ______________________________ > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > http://www.familysearch.org/ > >

I have an additional question related to this one: When I turn off sources and notes on a family group sheet, the notes and sources don't show up, but the source reference numbers do. It looks very messy when there are about 40 source numbers. Thanks, Sherrie Jens Verner Nielsen wrote: > I use PAF ver. 5.2.18.0 and want to make web-pages with descendants. > > I have sources to most of the descendants, but I do not want to show > those sources om the web-pages. I have unchecked "Source notes" and > "General notes", but on the web-pages is shown numbers at every person > linking to those non-existent source-pages. > > How can I avoid those numbers or get rid of the numbers in an easy way > afterwards. >

I use PAF ver. 5.2.18.0 and want to make web-pages with descendants. I have sources to most of the descendants, but I do not want to show those sources om the web-pages. I have unchecked "Source notes" and "General notes", but on the web-pages is shown numbers at every person linking to those non-existent source-pages. How can I avoid those numbers or get rid of the numbers in an easy way afterwards. -- Med en venlig hilsen fra ======================================================= * Jens Verner Nielsen * +45 74 41 55 80 * * Bagergyden 1 - Høruphav * jensverner@mail.dk * =======================================================

At 07:38 PM 3/10/2005 -0700, Linda wrote: >Another note though. You do need to check that your version of windows is >compatible with the flash drive. If you are running Windows 98, it "may" >not be compatible. However, my Lexar says 98SE, but the drivers worked fine >on my 98 (non SE) computer. 2000 and above, again according to geek son, >don't need any extra driver downloads as those versions can recognize the >flash drive. So check the package carefully to be sure it will work with >your version of windows. Linda's son is correct. Windows machines running 98SE and later have the flash drive drivers built in. If you have a Windows 98 machine, you will need to install a driver, but it will still work. Richard

How do you find out what speed your USB hub is? The only way I know is to plug a USB 2 device into it and see if you get a warning on the screen saying that you have plugged a USD 2 device into a USB 1 port. It is only a warning to let you know that the USB device will run slower than expected. Since they look the same physically, and they don't seem to be identified differently in the device table, I don't know any other way. I am in the process of buying 1,000 little 4 port USB 1 hubs for my company to give away at trade shows, and nowhere on the devices does it indicate that it is a USB 1 hub. I suspect, however that if they were USB 2 hubs, it would be marked as such. If you have a desktop machine, you can purchase a USB 2 interface card and install it in your machine so that you will not have to buy a whole new machine. These cards cost about $40. Richard Rands At 08:28 PM 3/10/2005 -0500, Donna wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Richard Rands > ><<Someone else mentioned the issue of USB 1 vs. USB 2, so it may be good to >provide a little bit more info about this to help some of you avoid >problems. If your machine is more than about a year old, your USB ports >(if you have them) will more than likely be USB1.1 which are considerably >slower than the new USB 2 ports. USB 1.1 runs at about 11 Mps whereas the >USB 2.0 ports run at 480 Mps. Before you decide to purchase a Flash Drive, >you ought to be sure you know what speed your computer's port is. Also, if >you need to purchase a hub to add more USB ports, you need not buy a USB >2.0 hub if your computer is only a USB 1.1 port.>> > >How can you find out what speed your USB port is? If you have the slower >port, can nothing be done but buy a newer PC? >Donna > > > > > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/