Personal Ancestral File 5.2
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Personal Ancestral File 5.2

Free Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is an excellent tool for genealogists and family historians
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5.2.18 See all
Developer:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Personal Ancestral File is a genealogy program developed to help you collect, store and organize family history records and information. It is an exquisite tool to build a detailed family tree.
One of the most important features in this application is its ease of use. The interface is well-organized and simple. It has been translated to several languages: English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Swedish.
The application organizes your information on different reports like pedigree charts, family group records, descendants charts, individual summaries, calendars and other custom reports. It permits you to create and store an ancestral database with individual data entering for each ancestor with demographic information, notes, references and pictures. You must type each person's information and then it allows you to link individuals or families and display each person in the relationships you request.

Also, you can set various preferences, such as fonts, colors and format, add multimedia resources as digitized and scanned photos, video clips, and sound files to individual records, create templates to customize data entry, print reports, track research sources, search, find, and correct information, view family information in different ways, filter searches, share information with others and publish Information on the World Wide Web.
There is a User’s Guide for online help.
This program is distributed as Freeware and it will work under Win98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP.

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Pros

  • Free
  • Easy to use
  • Information is encrypted for increased security

Cons

  • Needs typing information for each person (intense data entry)

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rating Edwina
I've happily used PAF since it came out back in the 80s, but my laptop was stolen and I'd like to find a copy to download to my new laptop. I can't seem to find the link here to download the program or anywhere else. Maybe it's just me and it's here somewhere??

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rating Don Outram
I've used the PAF Program since it first came out, & love it. I've uploaded my FH GED file onto FamilySearch.org but still use my PAF program to fine individuals, & their notes etc. When you have over 18,000 individuals in a file it's easier to fine one person on PAF than search on FamilySearch for them.

Oct 21, 2023 Was it helpful?  yes(5) no(0) | Reply
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Sarah
My brother has all our geneology on PAF5.2 and I would like to install PAF5.2 on my ocmputer so that I get all the documentation tranfered over correctly which it does not do onto the other suggested apps. How do I download PAF 5.2 so that I can tranfer ALL his information over correctly.

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