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From: "Georgia Lane" <>
Subject: Re: Genealogy Program for PC
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:30:31 -0500
References: <william.davidson-DBF2BD.19275724032002@nr-ott01.bellnexxia.net>


I am not familiar with Reunion, except by reputation. I have had the LDS
system for many years ( about 20?); it is called PAF = Personal Ancestral
File. It cost only $35; the directions are very easy to understand. And,
if you have any difficulty, there are FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) to
read, and there usually is a telephone number to call for more personal
assistance. In fact, they have a help line directly to experienced helpers
in Salt Lake City who are quite knowledgeable and kind. Sometimes, you can
update your program for free on the internet, and they offer resources free
there as well.

Good luck and happy hunting! If I can help answer a few questions, try me.
I don't pretend to know all about searching; I'm only back to the year 830
in England. After all, I've only been looking for my relatives for 62
years..........

georgia wilcoxon
10 Apr 2002

I frankly think it is a fine program and I have no intention of changing. I
can make charts and reports of all kinds. I can focus on one person or his
family or his entire line in both directions -- ancestors or descendants.
And it is so easy to learn!

My pre-kindergarten teacher told my mother (in my hearing) that I was
"backward". Oh, dear. What she REALLY meant was that I was very shy, but
it certainly didn't sound like that to me! I AM a slow learner in my book.
I had to actually work when I taught fifth grade English to keep ahead of
the class in grammar and diagramming.

So, do join us. Warning, though! You DO know that in becoming interested
in family history and genealogy, you will have been bitten by the famous
bug. And, you will sink in deeper and deeper until history and family
relationships become an obsession. Your family should also be aware of the
passion which will shortly develop into turning family vacations into
cemetery/tombstone hunts, courthouse records such as deeds, visiting current
township trustees to examine the old records they might have of that little
Presbyterian Church which used to stand on the corner of Main and High
Streets.

And your distant cousins will soon learn that whenever they see your return
address on an envelope, you want to know SOMEthing about their family, or
their latest photograph, etc.

Welcome! As many of us say, "Genealogists don't die, they just lose their
census." (Sorry about that, just couldn't resist.)


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