- Dec 24, 2020 Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is a tool to help you record, manage, and share your genealogical information. With this program, you can create and store family information about thousands of people. You may want to check out more Mac applications, such as Personal Ancestral File, which might be related to PAF on Mac.
- Find Any File 2.2b1. Find Any File 2.2b1 macOS Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though.
Guide Review - Personal Ancestral File 5.2. Personal Ancestral File 5.2 is surprisingly powerful and feature-packed given that it is a free program. Multiple views, including a five-generation pedigree view, make the program easy to navigate and the data entry screen is simple to use.
Personal Ancestral File (PAF) was a genealogy management software product formerly provided free of charge by FamilySearch. Like other genealogy management software, PAF allowed users to enter names, dates, places, source citations and other information into a database, and to print family group records, pedigree charts, descendancy charts, and other reports. PAF also allowed users to share their genealogical files with other researchers using GEDCOM formatted files and to link image and media files to individual records in their database.
On July 15, 2013, PAF was retired and is no longer available for download or support. Current PAF users may continue to use the software on their personal computers or they may prefer to switch to another product.
Other Genealogy Software[edit | edit source]
There are dozens of other commercial genealogical software programs available for purchase. Each of these products provide their own unique approach to gathering, storing and using your data and image files to list sources, share data with others, and create various forms and reports.
- To learn more about other genealogy software, visit Cyndi's List / Software and Computers section, browse the categories, and visit the different sites.
- Many of these products are compatible with FamilySearch.
- FamilySearch maintains a list of FamilySearch-affiliated products.