All; Yesterday I received the following from a friend. As a result I am now looking at Legacy and Ancestral Quest. My tentative conclusion is Ancestral Quest. Since it was the origin of PAF 4 & 5 it looks more familiar, it appears to handle the source citations better, its date modifiers (abt, bef, est, etc.) seem to be more familiar and it already has at least a partial interface with new FamilySearch. Comments? Richard L. Halliday West Linn, Oregon (where Winter Springs Right Back" {this morning's Oregonian}) "If the Lord wanted it done perfectly, He would not let me help." "Also at the conference,it was announced that a group of developers has created an extension to the PAF database file format allowing continued use of PAF files with the new capabilities of NFS. Commercial programs equipped with this extension will be able to support existing PAF files while simultaneously providing the advantages and new features of NFS." Those "developers" are Gaylon Findlay (developer of Ancestral Quest) and John Vilburn (developer of PAF Insight). Ancestral Quest 12 already exploits some of the extensions when used in its "PAF mode". Gaylon made this presentation at the Developers Conference: [Wed., March 12] 11:00 Gaylon Findlay PAF SDK/ Sync (C++) The basic layout of the PAF 5 database structure will be covered, along with the basics of using the PAF 5 SDK provided by the Church. From this base, we will discuss the recent changes engineered by Incline Software and Ohana Software to allow syncing with the new FamilySearch Family Tree. http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwgeneal/familysearch http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwgeneal/familysearch/class_description.cfm "If you go here and scroll down to the schedule you will find links to the presentations. The presentations are available in PowerPoint, PDF or Adobe Connect. Adobe Connect gives you the screen capture with the audio portion of the presentation. The next best thing to being there." -Renee's Genealogy Blog : http://devnet.familysearch.org/Members/clarkegj/march-3-2008-familysearch-developers-conference --- Lesly Klippel <[email protected]: Subject: Future of PAF Here is an interesting item I found on the "Ancestry Insider" blog. Mike Benning ========================================== Gordon Clarke (Family History Department) read an official statement at the FamilySearch Developers Conference today announcing future migration paths available to users of the venerable PAF genealogy software. Once New FamilySearch (NFS) is fully available, PAF users will have several migration options available. Users can perform a one-time transfer of their data to NFS, which like PAF, will be free. Or users can purchase a commercial genealogy program, many of which are currently developing support for NFS. Also at the conference, it was announced that a group of developers has created an extension to the PAF database file format allowing continued use of PAF files with the new capabilities of NFS. Commercial programs equipped with this extension will be able to support existing PAF files while simultaneously providing the advantages and new features of NFS. The announcement is essentially an end-of-life announcement for PAF and puts to rest rumors that PAF was dead already as well as rumors that FamilySearch would make one more release of PAF with New FamilySearch support.

How does or will that effect anybody still wanting to carry on using paf as it is. I have a database with 20,000 individuals in it from over 20 of research and am happy as I am..Ok I am a stick in the mud but "end of life announcements" surely don't actually mean that the programme stop working just because there will be no more updates or enhancements to it. I for one, am happy without all the add ons,. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Halliday" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:40 PM Subject: [PAF-5] PAF End-of-Life Announcement > All; > Yesterday I received the following from a friend. As a result I am > now looking at Legacy and Ancestral Quest. My tentative conclusion is > Ancestral Quest. Since it was the origin of PAF 4 & 5 it looks more > familiar, it appears to handle the source citations better, its date > modifiers (abt, bef, est, etc.) seem to be more familiar and it already > has at least a partial interface with new FamilySearch. > Comments? > Richard L. Halliday > West Linn, Oregon (where Winter Springs Right Back" {this > morning's Oregonian}) > "If the Lord wanted it done perfectly, > He would not let me help." > > "Also at the conference,it was announced that a group of developers has > created an extension to the PAF database file format allowing continued > use of PAF files with the new capabilities of NFS. Commercial programs > equipped with this extension will be able to support existing PAF files > while simultaneously providing the advantages and new features of NFS." > > Those "developers" are Gaylon Findlay (developer of Ancestral Quest) and > John Vilburn (developer of PAF Insight). Ancestral Quest 12 already > exploits some of the extensions when used in its "PAF mode". > > Gaylon made this presentation at the Developers Conference: > [Wed., March 12] 11:00 Gaylon Findlay > PAF SDK/ Sync (C++) > The basic layout of the PAF 5 database structure will be covered, along > with the basics of using the PAF 5 SDK provided by the Church. From this > base, we will discuss the recent changes engineered by Incline Software > and Ohana Software to allow syncing with the new FamilySearch Family > Tree. http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwgeneal/familysearch > http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwgeneal/familysearch/class_description.cfm > > "If you go here and scroll down to the schedule you will find links to > the presentations. The presentations are available in PowerPoint, PDF or > Adobe Connect. Adobe Connect gives you the screen capture with the audio > portion of the presentation. The next best thing to being there." > -Renee's Genealogy Blog : > http://devnet.familysearch.org/Members/clarkegj/march-3-2008-familysearch-developers-conference > > > --- Lesly Klippel <[email protected]: > > Subject: Future of PAF > > Here is an interesting item I found on the "Ancestry Insider" blog. > > Mike Benning > > ========================================== > > Gordon Clarke (Family History Department) read an official statement at > the FamilySearch Developers Conference today announcing future migration > paths available to users of the venerable PAF genealogy software. Once > New FamilySearch (NFS) is fully available, PAF users will have several > migration options available. Users can perform a one-time transfer of > their data to NFS, which like PAF, will be free. Or users can purchase a > commercial genealogy program, many of which are currently developing > support for NFS. Also at the conference, it was announced that a group > of developers has created an extension to the PAF database file format > allowing continued use of PAF files with the new capabilities of NFS. > Commercial programs equipped with this extension will be able to support > existing PAF files while simultaneously providing the advantages and new > features of NFS. > > The announcement is essentially an end-of-life announcement for PAF and > puts to rest rumors that PAF was dead already as well as rumors that > FamilySearch would make one more release of PAF with New FamilySearch > support. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >