Personal Ancestral File (German Wikipedia)

PAF 5.0 - Dick Eastman Online 1/3/2001 "Languages and Cultures. The biggest change in PAF 5 is that you can type and store characters from many of the world's languages. Not only can you record information in your own language, but you can also type characters from the languages of any of your ancestors. Technically, the database has been redesigned to accommodate all Unicode data."- Archive - Ancestry.com

ancquest.com

Ancestral Quest. Incline Software, abgerufen am 6. August 2010 (englisch).
Incline Software's press releases Press Release
Ancestral Quest - Program Description - PAF Compatibility - "NOTE 1: In 1999, Incline Software donated a copy of the source code for Ancestral Quest 3.0 to the LDS Church. The LDS Church then used this code as a base for creating PAF 4 and PAF 5. This is part of the reason why the two programs are so compatible."
FAQS - "Is there a relationship between PAF and Ancestral Quest?" - In 1999, Incline Software, with some strategic help from its partners, helped the LDS Church develop PAF 4 based on the newly released AQ 3.0. Both PAF 4 and the newer PAF 5 are therefore very similar to AQ. Since 1999, while the LDS Church has developed adjustments and new features into PAF, Incline Software has also develop dramatic new features into AQ." - Incline Software

familysearch.org

David Pugmire: Personal Ancestral File (PAF) Is Discontinued. 21. Juni 2013.
Certified Products for new.FamilySearch.org (Family Tree). FamilySearch, abgerufen am 6. August 2010 (englisch).

l-ags.org

PAF 2.3 Still Has Problems! - THE LIVERMORE ROOTS TRACER - VOLUME XIII AUTUMN 1994 NUMBER 5 - Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society "Personal Ancestral File (PAF) Release 2.3 is no longer being offered or distributed by the Family History Department of LDS. There are some known "bugs" that they are still trying to fix."

lds.org

LDS.org - Ensign Article - News of the Church: “Personal Ancestral File: New Genealogical Software for Home Computers,” Ensign, June 1984, 78 - "At present, Personal Ancestral File has been developed for IBM PC and IBM PC/XT computers"
LDS.org -Kathleen Lubeck, “The Church and Computers: Using Tools the Lord Has Provided,” Ensign, Jun 1984, 24 "“The Genealogical Department has just completed development of a new genealogy software program for those who own or have access to personal computers,” he added. Personal Ancestral File is now available"
LDS.org - Ensign Article - News of the Church - “New Genealogy Software Available for Computers,” Ensign, July 1986, 75 "While the original software package (Personal Ancestral File 1.0), released two years ago, was written in BASIC, Personal Ancestral File 2.0 uses “C,” a computer language that allows faster operation and fits on fewer diskettes."
LDS.org - New Era Article - Lori Stephenson Dawson, “Even in an Ordinary Ward,” New Era, Nov 1987, 9 Personal Ancestral File - "Personal Ancestral File (release 2.0) is available in versions for MS-DOS computers, Apple computers, and CP/M computers."

ldscatalog.com

Personal Ancestral File 5.2 and PAF Companion 5.4 - Software Version Changes (Memento des Originals vom 6. März 2009 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2

ldschurchnews.com

Family history data can now be submitted on computer diskette By R. Scott Lloyd - Church News staff writer -Published: Saturday, July 16, 1988 "Named Release 2.1 to distinguish it from earlier versions of the Personal Ancestral File, Releases 1.0 and 2.0, which are no longer available,"
LDS Church News - Upgraded software soon available for home-computer genealogy - By R. Scott Lloyd - Church News staff writer - Published: Saturday, Nov. 18, 1989 "For now, Release 2.2 is only available in a version for MS-DOS (IBM-compatible) computers."
LDS Church News - Upgraded Personal Ancestral File available Published: Saturday, Jan. 8, 1994 "Release 2.3 of the program, for MS-DOS computers"
LDS Church News - Church releases new PAF version for computers Published: Saturday, June 7, 1997 "A new DOS version of Personal Ancestral File 3.0"
LDS Church News - Newest PAF version available on Internet Published: Saturday, July 10, 1999 "Personal Ancestral File 4.0 was made available on the Internet service on June 28, just five weeks after the service's launch."
LDS Church News - Software upgrade makes names easier to submit to temple Published: Saturday, March 24, 2001 "(PAF 5.0 was recently updated to accept most of the world's alphabets and now has screens in and prints reports in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Swedish and German.)"
LDS Church News - Key new features now on PAF 5.0 "Key new features include a Palm OS application" Published: Saturday, June 16, 2001
LDS Church News - Software upgrade makes names easier to submit to temple Published: Saturday, March 24, 2001 "PAF 5.1 will check the FamilySearch Internet site and check for updates. This upgrade is now available"
LDS Church News - Updated PAF 5.2 available - Published: Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002

ldslibrary.com

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Chapter 8: Automating the Records, BYU Studies, vol. 34 (1994), Number 2--1994 - "Personal Ancestral File (PAF) was initiated in 1983 as a part of the Ancestral File project. It was released in April 1984"
"Chapter 8: Automating the Records, BYU Studies, vol. 34" (1994), Number 2--1994 "The earliest version of Personal Ancestral File had one glaring deficiency-poor response time. Release 2.0, a complete rewrite that was available in April 1986"

redirecter.toolforge.org

Personal Ancestral File 5.2 and PAF Companion 5.4 - Software Version Changes (Memento des Originals vom 6. März 2009 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2

web.archive.org

Personal Ancestral File for Macs - Selected FAQ (Memento vom 20. Februar 2009 im Internet Archive) "The current version of Personal Ancestral File for the Macintosh is 2.3.1. The current IBM versions of Personal Ancestral File are 4.0.4.18 and 5.2.18 (as of Aug 2002)."
RootsWeb: ROOTS-L Re: Genealogical Programs From: Cliff Manis (Memento vom 15. Juli 2011 im Internet Archive) "I still have the PAF 1.0 in BASIC." - Date: Sun, 28 Oct 90 18:17:06 CST
NSGS--NEBRASKA ANCESTREE Vol VII, no. 3, page 83 - Winter 1984-5 (Memento vom 6. März 2009 im Internet Archive) From: Keith W. Chambers, Beatrice, NE KEITH'S COMPUTER KORNER - "I read an article in the World-Herald about a new computer program that was being introduced by the LDS Church"
RootsWeb: ROOTS-L Re: Genealogical Programs (Memento vom 15. Juli 2011 im Internet Archive) - From: Ron Holt Date: Sun, 28 Oct 90 16:23:48 GMT - "I'm one of the original developers of PAF (version 2.0) and know there was a Unix (actually Xenix) version done. Though the original version was developed on an IBM PC, we got to the point that we did most of our development work on the Xenix version and then ported that version to the PC, Apple II, etc." Date: Sun, 28 Oct 90 18:17:06 CST
Personal Ancestral File 5 Tips and Tricks (Memento vom 27. März 2010 im Internet Archive) - Family History Conference Class Handout - By:Kevin Owen - 25 October 2008 - Brigham Young University - Idaho
Personal Ancestral File for Macs - Selected FAQ (Memento vom 11. Februar 2012 im Internet Archive)
Personal Ancestral File 5.2 and PAF Companion 5.4 - Software Version Changes (Memento des Originals vom 6. März 2009 im Internet Archive) Info: Der Archivlink wurde automatisch eingesetzt und noch nicht geprüft. Bitte prüfe Original- und Archivlink gemäß Anleitung und entferne dann diesen Hinweis.@1@2