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From: Alf Christophersen 02 45 41 97 <>
Subject: Letter from soc.roots on usenet netnews
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 89 22:50:47 EDT

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From: (Emmett Black)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: What programs ARE available for the Mac?
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Date: 09 Jun 89 01:57:32 GMT
Organization: GE Research; Schenectady, NY 12345
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Well, you really HAVE to look at PAF (Personal Ancestrial File)
from LDS (The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints aka the Mormons).
I've just gotten a copy of it and am fairly pleased with it so far.
It does have a real mac interface; I haven't tried to make postscript...
but i hope it does do that as well.... i'll have to check...

and with a $35 price tag - you can't beat it!

the biggest problem i have with it it as follows;
i got on the GENCOM bandwagon a LONG time ago before they got the
"standard" settled.... i have all my stuff on home brew computers and
systems that include a combination of relational databases, spread
sheets and other goodies... and i generate it all out in GENCOM format.
well... sort of... it is gencom... but there are a few glitches...
it seems that "NOTES" in PAF have to be "level 1" items....
and there seems to be no way to attach a note to a marriage record.

i had been recording notes such as "who performed" the ceremony,
and where were the family residences as notes subordinate to the
marriage record....
and similarly for individuals, i had notes subordinate to birth records.
for example:

1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 Feb 1985
2 NOTE Delivered via C-Section at 09:50 EDT.

well -- ALL notes seem to be requred to be "level 1" and attached
to an individual -- even though it is more appropriate to attach it
at a lower level -- or to the "FAMILY" record instead....
(you don't want to have the residences records attached to each person
in the family... (until they go their separate ways))

I've digressed... anyone have suggestions?

--Emmett
J.E.Black; GE Research/K1-3C26; Schenectady, NY 12345

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