Genealogy Online

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Genealogy Online

• Keeping Track

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Keeping track of it all - then
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Keeping track of it all now
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Genealogy Software

• Organize info by family
• Easy to modify
• Many reports
• Interchange data via GEDCOM
• Free or low cost

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Which Software

• If what you have works for you great!
• www.consumersearch.com/www/software/genealogy-soft
  ware/ for reviews
• Free genealogy software
• RootsMagic Essentials
• Upgrade to full RootsMagic for 30
• Personal Ancestral File

• If what you have works for you great!
• www.consumersearch.com/www/software/genealogy-soft
  ware/ for reviews

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RootsMagic Essentials

• Download from www.rootsmagic.com/Essentials/
• Can later upgrade to RootsMagic
• Feature comparison chart www.rootsmagic.com/RootsM
  agic/Features.aspx

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Personal Ancestral File

• Download
• PAF 5.2
• PAF Companion Basic
• PAF Tutorial
• From
• www.familysearch.org/eng/home/welcome/pafdownload.
  asp
• Upgrade to PAF Companion for 6.75
• Very good charts

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PAF Tutorial

• 7 Lessons on PAF usage
• Getting Started Typing in Your Family
• Getting Started Making Changes
• Notes and Sources
• Printing Forms and Reports
• Sharing Files
• Match/Merge
• Advanced Focus/Filter
• Can access fromwww.familysearch.org/ENG/paf/lesso
  ns/paf5.html

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GEDCOM

• GEnealogy Data COMmunication
• For exchange of databases
• Filetype is GED (ex. - surname.ged)
• FileImport - to bring data in from file
• FileExport - to create file

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PAF Reports

• PAF
• Pedigree
• Ancestry
• Descendants
• Books, etc
• PAF Companion (6.75)
• More sophisticated, colorful charts
• Fan charts, kinship, hourglass, etc