Personal Ancestral File (PAF)

Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is a genealogy program which can be downloaded free of charge from the LDS (Latter Day Saints) website:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp

The current version is PAF5.

The program is fairly simple to use, but here are some instructions which should help to answer some of the most frequent questions.

How to change the "Home Person".

The "home person" is the person that the tree should start with (normally you). Sometimes, when you import your tree from other programs, the home person gets changed to the wrong one. Then, when you export your tree to some sites (such as Genes Reunited), you'll find that it starts with the wrong person. Here's how to change it.

Go to the Tools menu and click on Preferences. Then click on the File tab. Where it says "RIN of home person on file open" click on Search, then click on Individual List. This lists all the people in your tree. Click on the name of the person you want your tree to start with, and hit OK.

To check that you've done it right, click on the big red arrow in the row of icons at the top of the page. This takes you immediately to the Home Person you've chosen.