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From: Alf Christophersen 02 45 41 97 <>
Subject: Letter from soc.roots on usenet netnews (2)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 20:46:21 EDT


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From: (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Software Info Request II
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Date: 15 Jun 89 04:10:31 GMT
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In article <>, (Jon Crisler) writes:
>
> Hello netlings,
>
> Due to the lack of response from my first posting, I will again attempt to
> elicit some responses. If there are enough responses, I will summarize and
> post results to the net. Round two ...
>
> I have a friend that is interested in porting over all of his hand written
> geneaology records onto a computer. His main interests lie in the area of
> maintaining/updating the database, and generating "family tree" type output
.

There has been some discussion on this group about the LDS software called
PAF (Personal Ancestral File). Though it is not my personal favorite
(I use a shareware package called Family History System), this would be a good
one for a beginner to start with due to its wide usage and low cost ($35.00).

It is available for both MS-DOS and the Mac. The GEDCOM interchange
format has become enough of a de facto standard that it allows data to be
converted to many other software packages should you find one later that
you like better.

There is a magazine published quarterly by Ancestry called "Genealogical
Computing" which goes into much more detail than I could hope to go into
here. There is quite a bit of useful information in the magazine with
features targeted to a wide variety of users from beginners on up. One
of the regular features is a hardware and software summary, with more
complete reviews of new packages as they come out.

PAF Software costs $35.00 for either MS-DOS or Mac and can be purchased from:

The Family History Department
Ancestral File Operations Unit
50 East North Temple Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
(801) 240-2584.

The Family History System software costs $35.00 (MS-DOS only)
for the registered (non-shareware version) from

Phillip E. Brown
834 Bahama Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Subscriptions to "Genealogical Computing" are $25.00 per year (4 issues)
from

Ancestry, Incorporated
350 South 400 East, Suite 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111

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