marg wrote: > Good morning. > > I ahve been using PAF for ever and really like it. the list I belong to was > sent the following > > "Whoah there! Be careful about PAF. Judging by what I've been reading in > various blogs, the LDS will let PAF die a natural death once they roll > out the new version of FamilySearch. " > > So I am wondering what is to happen to my very relaible PAF. And waht does > that mean? > _Eventually_ PAF will die because the operating system after Vista won't run it. Until then, don't worry about it...unless you want to start looking at alternatives so you'll know which one to move to 4, 5 years down-stream. AncestralQuest is the windows version of PAF's big brother. LegacyFamily Tree is free. Which of the dozen or so PC-based programs out there you'd prefer is kinda like which which Ice cream or car is best -- no accounting for tastes (g) ... some people are perfectly happy with vanilla icecream or a VW; others want Rocky Road or a Corvette. Cheryl -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.

To clarify, the basic Legacy program is free and is a good solid program, but does not have all the features that the paid Legacy Deluxe version has. When a software program comes in more than one "flavor" and one want to use the free version, it is good to research the differences to be sure you understand the limitations. The free versions work for a lot of people, and are also great for testing even if you think you might want to upgrade to the paid version later. Gary Templeman ----- Original Message ----- From: "singhals" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 6:53 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Re PAF2wiz > marg wrote: > >> Good morning. >> >> I ahve been using PAF for ever and really like it. the list I belong to >> was >> sent the following >> >> "Whoah there! Be careful about PAF. Judging by what I've been reading in >> various blogs, the LDS will let PAF die a natural death once they roll >> out the new version of FamilySearch. " >> >> So I am wondering what is to happen to my very relaible PAF. And waht >> does >> that mean? >> > > _Eventually_ PAF will die because the operating system after > Vista won't run it. Until then, don't worry about > it...unless you want to start looking at alternatives so > you'll know which one to move to 4, 5 years down-stream. > > AncestralQuest is the windows version of PAF's big brother. > LegacyFamily Tree is free. Which of the dozen or so > PC-based programs out there you'd prefer is kinda like which > which Ice cream or car is best -- no accounting for tastes > (g) ... some people are perfectly happy with vanilla > icecream or a VW; others want Rocky Road or a Corvette. > > Cheryl > > -- > There should be no attachments on this message, unless I > specifically mentioned them above. > > ------------------------------- > 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

I may be jumping the gun a bit here, but so far, all versions of Windows have come with a 'Compatibility Wizard' (just type that into Help to find it) which allows you to run any software as if it were in another (earlier) operating system. My son has several games which will only run under Windows 95, but his machine runs Windows XP. This compatibility wizard allows those games to run under Windows XP. I am assuming therefore that the next version of Windows after Vista will also have this wizard, so the use of PAF will not die after Vista. Don Farnham Researching Norster and Noster, Worldwide www.norster.org.uk GOONS 3004 singhals wrote: > marg wrote: > > >> Good morning. >> >> I ahve been using PAF for ever and really like it. the list I belong to was >> sent the following >> >> "Whoah there! Be careful about PAF. Judging by what I've been reading in >> various blogs, the LDS will let PAF die a natural death once they roll >> out the new version of FamilySearch. " >> >> So I am wondering what is to happen to my very relaible PAF. And waht does >> that mean? >> >> > > _Eventually_ PAF will die because the operating system after > Vista won't run it. Until then, don't worry about > it...unless you want to start looking at alternatives so > you'll know which one to move to 4, 5 years down-stream. > > AncestralQuest is the windows version of PAF's big brother. > LegacyFamily Tree is free. Which of the dozen or so > PC-based programs out there you'd prefer is kinda like which > which Ice cream or car is best -- no accounting for tastes > (g) ... some people are perfectly happy with vanilla > icecream or a VW; others want Rocky Road or a Corvette. > > Cheryl > >