Your message is mixing three different things here. The first part is nFS and PAF. The key word is *directly*. The new FamilySearch (nFS) web site is a collaborative based database combining the previous LDS databases of Ancestral File, IGI, Pedigree Resource File and others. PAF is NOT going to be able to work *directly* with that site as PAF is not going to be updated to add that capability. Your options will be: 1. Use a third-party add on program such as Family Insight (the upcoming replacement for PAF Insight) 2. Use a different commercial genealogy program that IS going to be updated to interface with nFS. 3. Manually transcribe information from nFS into PAF or another program. 4. Upload your information to nFS and work solely online. Please note that nFS is currently in a roll-out period, first by LDS temple districts for Church members only, then as their server capacity is increased, to the general public. No time frame for that has been annnounced. So when any of the options above become available to you is uncertain and depends on your status as an LDS member ir not, and when the roll-out is completed. Whether you want to continue with PAF is a personal choice. It runs fine in Vista and will continue to do the same things it does now, it will just not add any new functionality. If you have a need for more bells and whistles in your software, or will need to *directly* interface with the information in NFS then you will eventually need to make some decisions on your future use of PAF as noted above. The second issue you mention is selecting a person in a genealogy program and doing an Internet search. Each program is different in how extensive that capability is (what sites are accessed, etc), and each person is different in how much they use that feature. Again, PAF is not going to be updated, so the other Internet search functions it currently has will not change. The third issue it the search engine results on the sites themselves. While it is a nice wish that they would be 100% accurate, it is not really a PAF issue and there is nothing you can do other than point out the errors to the site owners. Gary Templeman -------------- Original message -------------- From: Elborn Mendenhall <[email protected]> > A few days ago I posted the following comment on the mailing > list, and while I have not received a direct reply, do I > assume that my statement about search engines is > correct, or do other reasons exist for not using PAF? > > As a user of PAF, (I also have other genealogical programs I use) but > I like PAF but I don't understand the reference to not working directly > with NFS? I assume this is a feature that other programs have which > allow you to check on an individual and do an search on the Internet. > I know that some of the other programs do that, and sometime I find > it useful, sometimes I don't. I do wish that the search engines on > sites such Footnote, Ascestry, WorldVitalRecords were better. > When you know some things are true and you want other things, > it is less than desirable to have 1930 Census records come up > for a person you know was born in 174? and died by 184?. > > > ------------------------------- > 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