The simplest and most elegant way that I have found to accomplish this is to use the program Family History CD. It will allow you to put the entire PAF database on a CD, generate a "front page" for the CD and help you to burn the CD. It contains a program that will display the PAF database. Furthermore, you can add pictures and printed material. It is available from Ohanasoftware.com. If your PAF database requires three floppies to accommodate it in the backup format, then it is almost certain that you have "collected" the information from compiled genealogies. Another approach would be for you to create a PAF database that contains only your "kindred dead". This is easy to accomplish using a GEDCOM file. This reduced file would then make it possible for you to confirm the acceracy of that which you have collected. For myself, I have only "computerized" the information researched by my family since they came to America in the 1840s and 1850s. In the last 55 years I have found thousands of factual errors in their work. Sadly sometimes that has included having the wrong parents for some of them. In the latter case the information was researched by a paid professional genealogist in Scotland. Richard L. Halliday B.H. Kemp wrote: >I need to burn a CD of my PAF 5 data to put in safe deposit box as hurricane protection, OR I might send it to my sister in another State. Ideally I would like it so sister could view it without having PAF on her computer. > >I have only burned pictures to a CD. Which is the file I chose in Windows Explorer to this? > >I backup to 3 CD-RWs, but that is in .zip format. I would like to get the "whole thing" on the CD > >bhk > >