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From: "d g hamby" <>
Subject: Re: [BlackSheep-L] Generations vs FTM
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:17:05 -0500


Dot - Thanks for your response! Gosh, I didn't know choosing a software
program would be so difficult!

Regards
Judy
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From: DBaker3381 <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, February 27, 1998 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [BlackSheep-L] Generations vs FTM

>In a message dated 98-02-27 11:34:48 EST, writes:
>
><<
> Apropos the question of software - if price is any consideration at all,
> Personal Ancestral File, which is available from the LDS church in Salt
Lake
> City, costs only $15.00 plus an additional ten (so they tell me) for a
recent
> add-on - I have'nt bought it yet. I have used it for several years,
through
> two upgrades, and it works fine and is
> fairly easy to use. It doesn't scan in pictures or maps, however. It
does
> allow for multiple sourcing and for extensive notes associated with
>individual
> events in a person's live (birth, death, marriage, will, etc.), rather
than
> running all the notes and sources together. GEDCOM compatible (the LDS
set
> the standard), prints lots of reports. Has a $60.00 supplemental program
> (from another source) that will almost write the book for you when you get
> ready to take that step.
>
> Hope this helps. >>
>
>
>I personally have Personal Ancestral File (PAF) along with the supplement.
>For ease of use, it is excellent, far superior to FTM.
>
>I might add that my disgust with FTM was the difficulty in exporting
gedcoms
>when you did not want to export the entire database, opening and deleting
>supplemental databases (I often open a new database to review gedcoms I
>receive). I just felt FTM was extremely clumsy.
>
>Dot
>
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