hessel@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Hessel) (06/01/90)
With regards to geneology programs, I have used Personal Ancestral File (PAF) from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It is good, but not perfect, well supported, and has excellent documentation. There is also considerable commitment to on-going expansion of its capabilities. I have also seen two shareware packages being sold by shareware vendors (those who sell copies of software, and leave you with the responsibility to pay for the right to use it separately, once you know it serves your need.) I believe that PAF may be obtained from the church distri- bution center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, area code 801. If someone wants me to look up the other programs, please let me know. Steve Hessel hpda!hessel@berkeley.edu
schrader@loligo (David F. Schrader) (06/01/90)
In article <-286529955@hpcupt1.HP.COM> wrote: >[Deleted...] (PAF) from the Church of Jesus Christ of >Latter-Day Saints. [Deleted...] >[Deleted...]commitment to on-going expansion of its >capabilities. Current version is 2.2. Supports color, mouse, most video modes (I have EGA). Configuration program for many items. >[Deleted...] sold by shareware vendors [Deleted...] Brother's Keeper is available via FTP from SIMTEL20 from the PD1:<MSDOS,DATABASE) directory as BK45??D1.ZIP, BK45??D2.ZIP, and BK45??D3.ZIP. (3 disks, D1=200+K, D2=300+K, and D3=200+K). Haven't had a chance to look at them yet... . > [Deleted...] >I believe that PAF may be obtained from the church distri- >bution center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day >Saints in Salt Lake City, area code 801. If someone wants >me to look up the other programs, please let me know. > >Steve Hessel >hpda!hessel@berkeley.edu > Yes, it is. Here is the info: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (The Mormons) Salt Lake Distribution Center Ancestral FIle Operations Unit 1999 West 1700 South 50 East North Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 1-801-240-2584 Ancestral File Unit /&/ Software Support 1-800-453-3860 Distribution Center Sales Note: The distribution center will accept Master/Visa Cards. When I bought V1.? It cost $35.00 (disks and manual(s)). I missed the V1.? to V2.0 upgrade but the upgrade to V2.2 cost me $13.00 ($5.00 for upgrade, $8.00 for the new manuals). It does lean toward "LDS" beliefs/philosophies (and isn't perfect) but is one of the best genealogy programs I have seen (I am LDS so you know my personal bias). David Schrader Disclaimer: This is personal not work related.
robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison) (06/03/90)
In article <861@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> schrader@loligo (David F. Schrader) writes: [Description of other geneaology programs deleted] > >Brother's Keeper is available via FTP from SIMTEL20 from >the PD1:<MSDOS,DATABASE) directory as BK45??D1.ZIP, >BK45??D2.ZIP, and BK45??D3.ZIP. (3 disks, D1=200+K, >D2=300+K, and D3=200+K). Haven't had a chance to look >at them yet... . > I have been looking at brother's keeper for the last couple of weeks. I like it! It lets you input quite a bit of info on each person. There are the obvious Birth, Death & Marriage Dates. You then have Baptised, and Buried, and one user-definable field for date/place. Actually, you can change the Baptised, & Buried fields to other names. There is a provision for message lines to be added for each person. I believe it is about 5 lines worth of text that can be entered here. If that isn't enough there is a way to put an automatic pointer to a separate text file. It has the ability to print out Group Sheets (Tabular listings of info on a particular family) as well as Tree Diagrams. You can print a tree of ancestors of a certain person, or descendants of a certain person. When descendants are printed it handles the siblings nicely and spreads things out so that multi-strip outputs can be taped together to make a huge family tree. You can also print more tabular types of reports, some of which can be user customized. All in all I think it is a very flexible & powerful tool for keeping track of bunches of related people. It even calculates relationships for you! (i.e. So-and-so is a Third Cousin Four Times Removed). Just my comments, bob -- Bob Robison - Southwest Research Institute, Electromagnetics Div. robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu {sun!texsun, gatech!petro, uunet!cs.utexas.edu}!swrinde!dfsun1!robison