User manual FAMILYSEARCH PERSONAL ANCESTRAL FILE 5.2

[. . . ] Personal Ancestral File 5. 2--User's Guide Important: For version 5. 2, minimal changes were made to the help and Users Guide to correct errors and to explain new features. Because the changes are so minor, it is recommended that you not print the entire Users Guide for 5. 2 if you printed the previous version. The text for the Users Guide is identical to the information found in the online help, and the online help actually contains more information than the Users Guide. If you use the online help, you do not need to print the Users Guide, which is nearly 200 pages. 2002 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. [. . . ] If you have enough hard disk space, store your multimedia files in one folder on your computer's disk drive. For example, if you store your . paf files in C:\My Data\Genealogy, store your multimedia files in C:\My Data\Genealogy\Multimedia. This gives you the following advantages: You always know where your multimedia files are. If you decide to include multimedia with a GEDCOM file, you can easily find and copy the multimedia files. You never have to swap compact discs when displaying or printing information with multimedia files. If you decide to include multimedia with a GEDCOM file, the GEDCOM file uses a relative path as the multimedia link. The program assumes that the folder is in the 91 - Personal Ancestral File 5. 2--User's Guide same drive and folder as the main file. In other words, the location of the multimedia file is relative to the location of the main file. If you store your multimedia files in another place, then Personal Ancestral File must use an absolute path as the multimedia link. An absolute path contains the drive letter and the name of every folder where the multimedia file is stored. When a GEDCOM file contains absolute paths as multimedia links, then the receiver will have to copy the multimedia files to exactly the same drive and folder where you stored them. If that person wishes to store the multimedia files elsewhere, then he or she will have to use Global Search and Replace to change the paths of the multimedia file names. Tip: If you started using multimedia, did not follow these guidelines, and would like to start using them, you will need to find all individuals in a . paf file with multimedia files, move the multimedia files to a new folder, and change the location where Personal Ancestral File expects to find them. See "Case Study: Finding all individuals with multimedia and moving all multimedia files to the same folder" (p. If you do not have enough hard disk space, store your multimedia files on a compact disc, a zip drive, or on some other type of storage device. You must insert that storage device when you use Personal Ancestral File, or the program will not be able to display or print the multimedia files. You will have fewer problems if you store all multimedia files on one storage device, such as on one compact disc or one zip drive. Sharing multimedia The . paf file does not store the multimedia file itself; it stores only the path where the file can be found. This fact has the following implications: When you make a backup copy of the . paf file, only the links to multimedia files will be included. When you import or export a GEDCOM file that includes multimedia, you must also give the individual a copy of the multimedia files. That individual must then copy the multimedia files onto a drive and folder that his or her computer can use. It is helpful if you tell him or her the drive and folder(s) where you store your multimedia files. If the receiver copies the files onto the same drive and folder, the multimedia will appear. [. . . ] 151 aft (after) 43 Ahnentafel charts 130 AKA 43 aliases 43 alphabetical lists 28, 98, 100, 132, 137 Advanced Focus/Filter 29, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107 custom reports 137, 139 Individual List 29, 98 individual View screen 28, 29, 30 printed lists 29, 132 also known as 43 ancestors 98, 121, 126 displaying 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 151 finding 98, 99, 100, 101, 103 printing 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 132 submitting for temple work 103, 121, 122, 123, 124 Ancestral File 117, 119 correcting information 119 merging records from 148 submitting information to Ancestral File 114, 117, 118, 119 Ancestral File numbers (AFNs) 151 displaying and printing Ancestral File numbers 154 editing 151 merging records with identical Ancestral File numbers 148 ancestry charts 129 ANSEL 115 ANSI 115 approximate information 45, 123 articles in journals and newspapers and magazines 74 assumed places 45 audio files 90 Automatic Match/Manual Merge 142 B B. C. dates 43 baby blessing dates of Latter-day Saints 46 187 Personal Ancestral File 5. 2--Users Guide backup copies 21, 22 baptisms of Latter-day Saints 46 adding 42, 46 displaying Latter-day Saint options 151 finding records with similar ordinance information 100, 104, 106 lists of incomplete ordinances 132 printing 126, 127, 132 submitting names for temple work 122, 123, 124 bef (before) 43 BIC 43 birth certificates 71 birth order 49 bitmaps (. bmp) 90 blank forms 127, 128 blessing of infants of Latter-day Saints 46 books 130 books as sources 71, 72 printing Ahnentafel and modified register books 130 born in the covenant (BIC) 43 C calculated dates (cal) 43 calculators 165, 166, 168 Date Calculator 166 Relationship Calculator 165 Soundex Calculator 168 calendars 43, 133, 166 calculating dates 166 Gregorian calendar 43, 166 Japanese Emperor dates 43 Julian calendar 166 other calendars 43 printing calendars of birthdays and anniversaries 133 cancelled sealings 46 capital letters 162, 164 caption of a multimedia file 93 case studies and examples 71, 107, 108, 109, 110, 142, 143 advanced focus/filter 107, 108, 109, 110, 142 custom reports 108 import and match/merge 142 sources 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77 CDs as sources 75 cemetery names 45 certificates of births and other events 71 188 Change names to mixed case 162, 164 character map 31, 32 charts. 126 Check/Repair 23, 171 children 33, 49 adding 36, 37 changing the order of 49 children who die before age 8 43 parent links 42 removing from families 51 stepchildren and adopted children 40, 41, 42 citations of sources. 58 clans 43 Cleared (Cle) in ordinance fields 123 compact discs as sources 75 Compuserve PNG (. png) 90 confirmation dates of Latter-day Saints 46 contact information 97, 109 continental pedigree 130 copy 38, 62 information on the Individual screen and Marriage screen 38, 39 notes 39, 85 sources 62, 63 Copy command 39 copyright 118 correct. 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