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paf-digest V1998 #74
paf-digest Friday, December 25 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 074
In this issue:
[PAF] Printing from PAF broken
[PAF] Re. Questions about family history.
Re: [PAF] Re. Questions about family history.
[PAF] Submission from [Rob & Heather Williams <will7370@students.sou.edu>]]
Re: [PAF] Submission from [Rob & Heather Williams <will7370@students.sou.edu>]]
[PAF] Re:quest abt family history.
Re: [PAF] Submission from [Rob & Heather Williams <will7370@students.sou.edu>]]
[PAF] Re. Accuracy within messages.
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:04:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Justin Masters "jmasters@pcocd2.intel.com" <jmasters@pcocd2.intel.com>
Subject: [PAF] Printing from PAF broken
I'll assume for your printing problem that you're printing from under
windows (PAF run from icon, or run from DOS window below windows 9x/NT).
If it's win9x or winNT, you should be able to re-install your printer
drivers. It's possibly that they were corrupted somehow.
Try going into Start-Settings->Control Panel->Printers->Add Printers
(or maybe see if you can find someway to install the printer driver
from in there.)
If you're running from DOS without the above setup, I'd reinstall PAF
and reset your preferences.
Justin
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:04:35 +0000
From: Fred MacKay <fmackay@bigfoot.com>
Subject: [PAF] Re. Questions about family history.
In a message dated 12/16/98 9:16:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rick.power@ns.sympatico.ca writes:
1. Why/How did you get involved in family history?
2. How old were you when you started?
3. And, what is the best thing or most exciting thing you've found from
family history?
These are my answers to these questions, which have been, abbreviated
somewhat to make this message shorter and not an epistle.
1. In 1963 after wanting to trace my ancestry, I finally started by
writing to my mother who lived some 10,000 Kms. from me on another
Continent i.e. Africa to Europe. I asked for information on ALL of my
family, and received back a 5-page letter with loads of data including
dates, places and whom they were related to.
2. I was 30 years old and started out by writing for birth, marriage and
death certificates for these ancestors, which soon became compelling
urge to obtain the details. I would await the post for the
certificates. When the arrived we would read the details to find out the
next stage of the research. In one instance the registrar wrote a
comment on a marriage certificate which had only the barest details.
The marriage took place of the 26 December and didn't have more details
than the names of the bride and groom and date with the comment that the
minister had celebrated Christmas a little too much.
3. The satisfaction that I will have an heritage to pass onto my
progeny, together whatever I have been able to glean about what life was
like for my ancestors lives and all the hardships and highlights in
there lives.
Perhaps others, who may wish to share the above from there lives would
send a message to the list.
May I take this opportunity to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year?
Best wishes,
Fred MacKay.
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:12:49 -0600
From: tomboelling@juno.com (Thomas C Boelling)
Subject: Re: [PAF] Re. Questions about family history.
>1. Why/How did you get involved in family history?
2. How old were you when you started?
3. And, what is the best thing or most exciting thing you've found from
family history?
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my answers:
1. When my older brothers did it for a scout project one said our
ancestry was German. a few years later the other said Irish. I just
wanted to do it for a hobby and trace them.
2. I started out after high school to do it (Age 20). I'm now near 43.
3. The best thing I found from family history is all the cousins I've met
and told me much as they knew about their heritage that they come to me
to find other pieces of the puzzle. Since then, they come to me to find
out how to get to the next piece of the tree solved.
Tom
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:15:18 +0200
From: Ed Rogers <zulander@netsonic.fi>
Subject: [PAF] Submission from [Rob & Heather Williams <will7370@students.sou.edu>]]
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:16:14 -0800
From: Rob & Heather Williams <will7370@students.sou.edu>
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Hello folks,
This is not so much a technical problem as it is a
procedural one. I would like to get comments from the group
related to how they insert undocumented relationships into
PAF 3.0.
>From time to time I will receive an email, or a pedigree
through regular mail that shows a certain parentage, or
lineage for a person. However, sometimes these are
accompanied by absolutely NO documentation whatsoever and
are just hearsay.
Being the good genealogists that we are, we wisely don't
take these things at face value. My dilemma is what to do
with the information in PAF? As far as I can tell there is
no option in PAF 3.0 to designate an individual - or a whole
line for that matter - as unproven. Yet, at the same time I
don't want to let the info go without recording it
electronically somehow. What do I do if I come up with two
or more different possible parentage/lineages for the same
person?
Is my only option to insert more than one parent for a
child, and just leave a note in the notes section that this
is unproven? How can you add more than one set of parents
for an individual?
Sorry for the bother, but my conscience bothers me about
inserting unproven lineages into my database without some
provision for documenting them as such. I know I can insert
that fact into the notes, however, just looking at the
pedigree on the screen by itself offers no indication
whether a link is documented or not. I guess that is my
main problem.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Take care,
Robert
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:01:15 EST
From: aaberg3@juno.com (Robert M Aaberg)
Subject: Re: [PAF] Submission from [Rob & Heather Williams <will7370@students.sou.edu>]]
U could always start a new file and puth them in until you prove it.
Bob
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 22:17:12 EST
From: aaberg3@juno.com (Robert M Aaberg)
Subject: [PAF] Re:quest abt family history.
>1. Why/How did you get involved in family history?
2. How old were you when you started?
3. And, what is the best thing or most exciting thing you've found from
family history?
*************
my answers:
1. Dad passed a way in 1985. He had a book of Aaberge Family History,
which I got.
It was published by a remote cousin in Norway and did research way back.
2. So I started at age 57.
3. I then started checking info at a local FHC and took it back to 6AD.
The day I hit that a lady working on here line, heard me hollar what
I'de hit, and she said she had a book that took that man back to Noah and
Adam. Then a week later she came in with another list to a different son
of Noah. I got so involved that I've now got over 9000 names. And could
add many more from the FHC files. My wife and I then got so involved
with the FHC, We became the Co-directors and ran it for a year. During
that time, we set up 6 other FHC's and trained staffs. These were all
located in LA (Lower Alabama). (S.W. Alabama) They are all still in
operation and doing fine.
Bob
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 12:40:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Cheryl Singhal <csinghal@CapAccess.org>
Subject: Re: [PAF] Submission from [Rob & Heather Williams <will7370@students.sou.edu>]]
Ed forwarded a message from someone named Robert whose final sentences
indicated that he was having a conceptual problem because the pedigree
display screen didn't differentiate proven from unproven links.
Evidently he doesn't much mind having these links in there, he mostly
objects to being unable to tell at a glance which ones they are.
Two thoughts: (1) in the title field put (NP) for Not Proven. (2)
sometimes you can't rely on technology but have to read the FINE manual--
in this case that means you have to read the details in the NOTES, and
can't just fly by the pedigree screen -- which doesn't show you
everything there is to see anyway (it omits siblings of each generation,
for instance).
Cheryl -- whose Seasonal spirit, such as it was, was seriously dampended
by 4 hours in a snow-emergency traffic jam last night.
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 01:04:15 +0000
From: Fred MacKay <fmackay@bigfoot.com>
Subject: [PAF] Re. Accuracy within messages.
Hi! There Folks,
This is just a note, which I hope will be accepted in a gracious way, as
I don't have any ulterior motive to stir it up.
I have noticed that some persons make a typo on the word
'Encyclopaedia'.
A great deal of the time it is spelt incorrectly as 'Encyclopedia'.
A close look at the two spellings shows that it has an 'e' instead of
'ae'.
I know that a large number of Internet users don't use a spell checker
while on line, but making the effort of using a spell checker is
important as when one is giving details of family members names errors
do occur.
Please ponder the comments made above when sending messages, as we are
family historians and should be at least trying to send out accurate
data.
Do have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and enjoy all the
festivities.
Best wishes,
Fred MacKay.
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Captain Francis Wheler, R.N., H.M.S. Tiger 1864.
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