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From: Robert Heiling <>
Subject: Re: Software help in merging overlapping databases
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:39:00 -0800
References: <3AA26AD7.4557484E@bellatlantic.net>, <98cvki$omf$1@boile.a2000.nl>, <nbut6.47145$386.1837234@news.chello.at>


Istvan Csanyi wrote:

> Hi guys,

There are a few gals here too! :-)

> I am a newbie. What PAF and BK means?

Hi István and welcome to the group. Those stand for Personal Ancestral File and
Brother's Keeper. They are both programs for maintaining your family tree on a
computer. A couple of others are FOW (Family Origins for Windows) and FTM
(Family Tree Maker).

Hope this helps

Bob

> Sorry!
> István
>
> "Enno Borgsteede" <> wrote in message
> news:98cvki$omf$1@boile.a2000.nl...
> > Hi Cyril,
> >
> > > I have a medium sized database (4000 odd entries -- precision, not
> > > character) and have a number of smaller, but still over 1000 entry
> > > GEDCOM files which overlap my current material, not just duplicate
> > > people, but disparities on the data on people. Does there exist
> > > ANYWHERE software which will help in merging such files? I would like,
> > > at least, the ability to display two versions of the entry of a person
> > > and to be able to transfer data between them, including links to other
> > > people. I don't expect the software to correctly identify the matches,
> > > though it could give hints.
> >
> > Like you, I was disappointed that the new version of BK doesn't have this
> > feature. That's why I switched to PAF. It has a merge function, where you
> > can specify criteria to seearch on, like whether or not to use parent
> names
> > for comparing, etc. You can download PAF for free from
> www.familysearch.org.
> >
> > You can also try Legacy 3 (free) from
> > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Download.asp. It has some more features
> than
> > PAF, but I prefer PAF 4 myself, because it's faster here.
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Enno
> >
> >
> >
> >

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