Bette wrote: >Good Morning, > >I would like to divide my PAF into two surname files. Can someone tell me the best way to do this? I will still keep my original file intact. >Thank you for any help you can give me. > >Bette > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index >Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! >http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > > > If you want to export a portion of the infomation in your paf file select Export from the File menu. Then you get a dialog box where you select which program you are exporting to. Use PAF 5. For the information to Include check all boxes. For Selected Individuals click 'Partial'. The click the Select button. Another larger dialog box will appear. You have now entered the wonderous world of PAF advanced search. The list window can scroll to show all the individuals in your file. As you select individuals they are marked with '>>' on the left edge of the list window. You can select (or deselect) based on relationship to a reference individual (relationship filter) and/or by search for some value in any of many fields (field filter). You'll probably want to experiment with powerful capability but for dividing a file into two surname lines you will want to consider the relationship filter 'All Ancestors Related'. If however the two groups you want to seperate have other intermarriages I think you will have to deselect some individuals after you select with 'All Ancestors Related'. This same selection capability is available for use with reports and for mass deletions.