Manasota PAF News May 2003

DUPLICATE NOTES & SOURCES IN PRINTOUTS submitted by winpeterson@netzero.net My dilemma is how to print a report which includes resources without having them repeat over and over. If I cite the same source for two different individuals or two different facts then I wind up with the same source repeated in my report. Probably if I would take the time I might be able to find the solution. I asked Warren Artley about this and he says he puts his sources in notes.

AND THE ANSWER IS: If a document mentions more than one ancestor, you must cite it as a source or write it up in notes for each individual mentioned. Its only fair. What if you only mentioned a census record for the head of household and not for each of the children in his home at the time? The record for the children would be incomplete -- and this would definitely show up if you print:

If you follow my advice, and create a report in PAF, send it to a FILE, instead of printing it off right away. Then you can edit the file in your word processing program. You just have to remember WHERE PAF saved the file when you asked it to prepare the report. In my case, WORD opened up the file immediately after I selected PRINT TO FILE and clicked the PRINT button.

GENBOOK information gleaned from the website by Rex Clements."After you have entered your Family History data into your genealogy software, GEN-BOOK can read your data directly from Personal Ancestral File (PAF 2.31/3.0/4.0) and generate a BOOK. GEN-BOOK can read a GEDCOM file from Family Tree Maker (FTM), Brothers Keeper (BK), Reunion, Family Origins (FO), Roots, The Master Genealogist (TMG), or any other genealogy software that will make a GEDCOM file." $59 GEN-BOOK 2105 Country Lane Auburn, CA 95603-9735 Phone: 530-889-8801. http://www.foothill.net/~genbook/index.html#home" NOTE: The women can be indexed under their married name, with their maiden name in parenthesis.

Preserving Your Family History with Multimedia. This video demonstrates more advanced functions of common image software and image devices used to digitally preserve and enhance your family information and photos. On this video you will learn how to:
• Scan Photos and Film
• Enhance and Repair Photos
• Scan and Enhance Documents
• Use Digital Cameras
• Create Audio Files and Import Them into Your Genealogy Software
• Document Family History with Video
• Transfer Home Movies to Video

How's this for a quick look at our Country? submitted by AKeisacker@aol.com

It has been a long time since I saw the link for this site. Here are a few more:

PAF Insight "PAF Insight works with Personal Ancestral File 5 (PAF 5). With PAF Insight you can easily collaborate with other researchers, streamline your database, see the big picture & save time.

Advanced Merge - When performing a Match/Merge, do you ever wonder “How many more names do I need to go through?” When PAF 5 matches a pair of individuals who aren’t really a match, don’t you wish you could tell PAF never to match that pair again? Do you ever find yourself looking at a Match/Merge screen wondering what the differences are between the two individuals being matched? See how PAF Insight can make Merging a breeze!" http://www.ohanasoftware.com/

GEDmark submitted by Pat Richley, dearmyrtle@aol.com This nifty little program will allow you to mark your name/address/city/state/zip/ etc. for each individual in your database before you send it out to someone. In my opinion, this might be even more useful for marking the incoming data. This is a free download from: http://www.progenysoftware.com/gedmark.html

"How many times have you considered sharing your family history research with others, but were hesitant to do so because your authorship might be lost? GEDmark™, a new family tree tool created by Progeny Software, solves this problem by giving you the satisfaction of knowing your work has been safely marked with your author information."

It occurred to me that you could take an incoming GEDCOM file, and process it through GEDMARK to indicate in each person's file the author (e-mail address if nothing else) of the individual who sent you the file. Then you can distinguish who sent you what. This will prove particularly helpful when you want to ask that person for a photocopy of the documentation for an individual or family.

NEWS from our PAF Member-At-Large Newer members of the Manasota PAFUsers Group may not know about our dear friend, Chuck FitzGerald cdfitzg@dfnow.com. He and his lovely wife Eileen have sold their home here in Florida to remain full-time in their Pennsylvania digs, to be closer to the children. We get to hear from him from time to time -- READ ON.

Wow! I am really excited! The web site listed below (in Ireland) has the full color version of the sketch of our 37 greats grandfather, Maurice FitzGerald, the invader of Ireland in late 1169. http://www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/uk/ireland/irelandimage02.htm

The sketch is one of several which appear in the margin of the MS by Maurice's sister Angharad's son, Girald de Barri, a priest who followed his uncles to Ireland to learn what they had discovered there when they accepted the challenge to help put King Dermot MacMurrough back on his Leinster throne. I have been trying to learn the colors by working through the National Library of Ireland, and am still waiting for response to my plea there.

This would make a grand cover for a magazine article about the adventure of the Cambro-Norman barons and knights and archers who accepted the offer of lands in Leinster if they would help put Dermot MacMurrough (banished King of Leinster), back on his throne (which they did!) Not many of us are able to find any sort of crude likeness of an ancestor from so far into the past. Maurice was born about 1100 and died in Ireland in 1176 after fulfilling the agreement to aid MacMurrough. His several year effort is very well described in two documents which have survived more than 800 years - his nephew's "book" "Expugnatio Hibernica", and the Old Norman poem of which the title translates as "The Song of Dermot and the Earl".

I hope descendants of Maurice will be able to make a color print of the old warrior who stands with a yellowish outfit over his chainmail and a heavy sword partially drawn. What a great thing it will be to be
able to include a copy in the family history each of you is building! Best regards and good luck!

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