Manasota PAF News 12/2000 Part 2

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Manasota PAFNews
December 2000 ~ Volume 7 Issue 2
A publication of the Manasota PAF User Group, Inc. of Bradenton, Florida
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NOTE: Be sure to print all three sections of the newsletter to take with you to our December meeting.

See the Manasota PAF Meetings page for map, dates & time.

The Board of the Manasota PAF Users Group and the members who attended the November meeting heartily endorse the PAF Training Video provided by www.123genealogy.com . This month we're going to look at the "Adding Names in Pedigree View & Inserting Special Characters" option demonstrated by narrator Steve Lemmon in PERSONAL ANCESTRAL FILE: Getting Started. ISBN 158629100-9. To order your own copy of the video go to: www.123genealogy.com

From DearMYRTLE's Message Board
Posted by Brenda Gens rbgens@prairie.lakes.com on Thu, 30 Nov 2000

"I am looking for a software program that would allow me to transcribe some old calendars/journals that my grandmother has kept. I would like a monthly calendar that I could type in her daily notes. My Print Shop software does not let me modify it enough to be able to get a big enough area in each day to fit in my grandmother's daily notes. And she has a number of these yearly calendars, so I would prefer transcribing them onto monthly calendars, instead of weekly calendars. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated."

Dear Brenda,
Why not create a book? Photocopy the calendars and journals. Place one page in a left-side page protector, then the transcription in the right-side page protector. As the notebook is open, you can see Grandmother's work on one side and a neatly typed word-for-word transcription on the other.

What program to use? Did you resize the text in your calendar program? If that doesn't solve your problem, you'll have the same situation with other calendar programs. I use Calendar Creator Plus and it has a lot of flexibility. But, why not just use a word processing program for the transcribed pages? Then use your Print Shop to design a cover page using one of the sign templates.

In any event, be sure to use Grandmother's spelling, phrasing, and abbreviations just as she did in the original work.

Our family association printed such a book of the Journal of Conrad Weiser. It was most effective in making you feel closer to the ancestor, to see his handwriting on the left pages. In this case, we had the translation from the German on the right side. It was printed in a 5" x 7" paperback, owing to the size of the original.

What a treasure you are making for future generations!

Myrt, as you note, Ultimate Family Tree has a healthy looking Web site at http://www.uft.com where they tout UFT 3.0. However, please note their announcement that they will no longer develop UFT beyond 3.0 and support for the program will only continue "through the next year" (from May 2000):

There is no indication on the message board that this was any kind of a hoax. The fact that they made this announcement only on a message board, did not inform their current users, and make no mention of it on their Web site while continuing to SELL version 3.0 was a crucial factor in my decision to switch from their sister program, Family Tree Maker, to The Master Genealogist.

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