Personal Ancestral File 5.2

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Personal Ancestral File 5.2

• Church of Jesus Christ
• of Latter-day Saints
• Valley Forge Family History Center

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Getting Around PAF 5.0

• There are three ways of navigating through your
  database.

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1. Family View

• Shows an individual and his parents, spouse and
  children.

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2. Pedigree View

• Use this view when you want to see five
  generations of a persons ancestry.

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3. Individual List

• Lists all individuals in your database by RIN
  Number...

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...or

• Alphabetically if you click twice on the Full
  Name field.

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Primary Position

• This is the position of the individual on the
  Family View screen on the top left.
• Use the triangular arrow buttons next to each
  individual to move the person to the primary
  position.
• It is necessary to move an individual to the
  Primary Position to add parents, spouse and
  children. Lets try a few.

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Spouse In Primary Position

• To move a spouse to the Primary Position press
  the up/down arrow button above the spouse.

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Get Back to the Home Person

• To get back to the Home Person click on the Go To
  Home Person icon. (It looks like a mans face
  with a red up arrow.)

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Editing Records

• Double-click on the individual or marriage you
  wish to edit.
• Type the information.
• Click Save.

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Other Information on theAdd or Edit Individual
Screen

• There are other information fields available on
  the Individual Record.

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Title (prefixes)

• Type suffixes, such as Junior, Senior, or III,
  after the surname.
• Type titles, such as Captain, Deacon or Doctor in
  the Title field.

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Married Name

• Type the married name of the female.
• This becomes useful when you dont remember her
  maiden name, such as entering information from
  death records.
• You can later search for her by her first name
  and married name.

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Also Known As

• Type any other name the person used as a stage
  name, pen name, criminal alias, and so forth.

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Nickname

• Type the person's familiar name.

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Cause of Death

• Type the cause of death.

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Physical Description

• Type the physical description of the person. We
  recommend that you give the description of the
  person at about 25 years of age. We all get
  older, get grey hair and get a little wider.
  Lets present us at our best.

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Custom ID

• If you have your own numbering system for the
  people in your family, type it here. You can use
  both letters and numbers.
• Tip Bbirth certificate, Mmarriage
  certificate, Ddeath certificate

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To Add Other Events Attributes

• There are other events you may want to enter,
  such as immigration info, military service,
  moves, census info or probate info.
• To add this, go to the Edit Individual screen for
  the individual and click the Options button, then
  click New Event/Attribute.
• A menu of choices will appear.

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• If the event is on the list, click the event, and
  click Select.
• If the event is not on the list, click New to add
  it to the list.
• Type the date and place of the event and any
  other useful information and click Save.

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Lets look at some I have used.
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One great feature is that after you add the Other
Information and Save it, it will automatically
sort it chronologically so you can see a
snapshot of a persons life on the Edit
Individual screen or documents you print!!!
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Confidential Information

• If you want to keep a note confidential, type
  as the first character of the paragraph.
• If you want to print a note on reports, type ! as
  the first character.
• Tip If you are recording information about
• a person who is still living,
• please keep it
  confidential.

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Also please remember that Social Security
Numbers, birthdates and mothers maiden names of
living people can be used for identify theft.
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Rearranging Order

• By default, children are listed in the order in
  which they are typed. You can change the order
  if needed.

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• From the Edit menu, select Order Children.
• From the Child Order screen, select the child you
  want to place in a different order.
• Click the up or down buttons to move the child to
  the correct order in the list.
• Click Save.

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Adding Contact Information

• The contact information is the name, address,
  telephone number, and e-mail address of living
  people who can
• be contacted for more information about your
  relatives or ancestors.
• be added to a list of family reunion contacts.

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• From the Individual screen, click the Address
  button. (It looks like an envelope with a
  pencil.).
• Type the information and press OK.

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Remember to...PRACTICE YOUR NEW SKILLS