Files from Apple using PAF

[Paul Blair]

Some advice, please...

I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC

The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that
accept GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.

But if anyone knows differently, please let me know. It might save me
making hard work of something

TIA

Paul Blair
Canberra

[Helen Castle]

If it is a GedCom then any of the many reputable programs will import it
with varying degrees of accuracy - try a couple of different ones and see
what the differences are. Check things like sources and notes. Open the
GedCom in a text editor and see if there is anything in it that you dont see
come up in obvious places - takes some interpretation but it is do-able.

If it is a Mac file for Paf then maybe only Paf for Mac will read it but as
Paf is usually so friendly I would give it a go with Legacy or one of the
many other programs that open Paf files.

Make sure you make a copy before you do all this.

Helen Castle
Narangba Qld


"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Some advice, please...

I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC

The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that accept
GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.

But if anyone knows differently, please let me know. It might save me
making hard work of something

TIA

Paul Blair
Canberra

[cecilia]

Paul Blair wrote:

I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC
The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that
accept GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.

Searching http://www.google.com for
PAF 2.31 Gedcom
I find confirmation that there may be a difference (the Legacy site says
"Personal Ancestral File is now used in two different flavors, 2.5x and
3.x, and since they handle notes, sources and repositories in radically
different ways" - http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/TourExport.asp)
between the GedCom required for input to different versions of PAF - the
page gives details.

http://www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf indicates that GedCom from all
earlier versions of PAF can be imported to PAF 5, but not whether
identical databases are created.

[Paul Blair]

Well, the files turned up as .DAT - I wonder how I deal with that!
Scanning through them shows some odd format...

Paul Blair

cecilia wrote:

Paul Blair wrote:


I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC
The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that
accept GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.


Searching http://www.google.com for
PAF 2.31 Gedcom
I find confirmation that there may be a difference (the Legacy site says
"Personal Ancestral File is now used in two different flavors, 2.5x and
3.x, and since they handle notes, sources and repositories in radically
different ways" - http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/TourExport.asp)
between the GedCom required for input to different versions of PAF - the
page gives details.

http://www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf indicates that GedCom from all
earlier versions of PAF can be imported to PAF 5, but not whether
identical databases are created.

[Robert Heiling]

Paul Blair wrote:

Well, the files turned up as .DAT - I wonder how I deal with that!
Scanning through them shows some odd format...

Paul Blair

I haven't seen a reply as yet, so permit me to point out that those would be
PAF 2.x files. FTW will import them.

Bob

cecilia wrote:
Paul Blair wrote:


I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC
The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that
accept GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.


Searching http://www.google.com for
PAF 2.31 Gedcom
I find confirmation that there may be a difference (the Legacy site says
"Personal Ancestral File is now used in two different flavors, 2.5x and
3.x, and since they handle notes, sources and repositories in radically
different ways" - http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/TourExport.asp)
between the GedCom required for input to different versions of PAF - the
page gives details.

http://www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf indicates that GedCom from all
earlier versions of PAF can be imported to PAF 5, but not whether
identical databases are created.

[Paul Blair]

Bob:

Thank you. The indiv2 file is 60kb, full of hieroglyphics, and while FTW
is happy to accept the file, it brings no names (no anything!) to the
FTW file. As well as indiv2, there are marr2, namadd2, name2 and notes2
files, part of the same suite, I guess.

The data came from LA, so I will need to go back and get a fresh copy, I
think.

Cheers

Paul

Robert Heiling wrote:

Paul Blair wrote:


Well, the files turned up as .DAT - I wonder how I deal with that!
Scanning through them shows some odd format...

Paul Blair


I haven't seen a reply as yet, so permit me to point out that those would be
PAF 2.x files. FTW will import them.

Bob


cecilia wrote:

Paul Blair wrote:



I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC
The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that
accept GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.


Searching http://www.google.com for
PAF 2.31 Gedcom
I find confirmation that there may be a difference (the Legacy site says
"Personal Ancestral File is now used in two different flavors, 2.5x and
3.x, and since they handle notes, sources and repositories in radically
different ways" - http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/TourExport.asp)
between the GedCom required for input to different versions of PAF - the
page gives details.

http://www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf indicates that GedCom from all
earlier versions of PAF can be imported to PAF 5, but not whether
identical databases are created.

[Robert Heiling]

Paul Blair wrote:

Thank you. The indiv2 file is 60kb, full of hieroglyphics, and while FTW
is happy to accept the file, it brings no names (no anything!) to the
FTW file. As well as indiv2, there are marr2, namadd2, name2 and notes2
files, part of the same suite, I guess.

I'm assuming you did an Append/Merge. You could try the Ancestral Quest demo then
http://www.ancquest.com/faqs.htm. Here's some more info on those files and it
saves me the typing.
PAF 2.31 – This is one of the very first versions of the PAF Program. Depending on
whether the file is a data
file (.dat) or backup file (.bak), the extensions are as follows: Indiv2.dat or
indiv2.bak, marr2.dat or marr2.bak, namadd2.dat or namadd2.bak, name2.dat or
name2.bak, notes2.dat or notes2.bak, reptitl2.dat or reptitl2.bak. Indiv2 can
be a combination of all six files.

The data came from LA, so I will need to go back and get a fresh copy, I
think.

LALA Land eh?

Have fun

Bob

Robert Heiling wrote:
Paul Blair wrote:


Well, the files turned up as .DAT - I wonder how I deal with that!
Scanning through them shows some odd format...

Paul Blair


I haven't seen a reply as yet, so permit me to point out that those would be
PAF 2.x files. FTW will import them.

Bob


cecilia wrote:

Paul Blair wrote:



I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC
The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that
accept GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.


Searching http://www.google.com for
PAF 2.31 Gedcom
I find confirmation that there may be a difference (the Legacy site says
"Personal Ancestral File is now used in two different flavors, 2.5x and
3.x, and since they handle notes, sources and repositories in radically
different ways" - http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/TourExport.asp)
between the GedCom required for input to different versions of PAF - the
page gives details.

http://www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf indicates that GedCom from all
earlier versions of PAF can be imported to PAF 5, but not whether
identical databases are created.

[Paul Blair]

Robert Heiling wrote:

Paul Blair wrote:


Thank you. The indiv2 file is 60kb, full of hieroglyphics, and while FTW
is happy to accept the file, it brings no names (no anything!) to the
FTW file. As well as indiv2, there are marr2, namadd2, name2 and notes2
files, part of the same suite, I guess.


I'm assuming you did an Append/Merge. You could try the Ancestral Quest demo then
http://www.ancquest.com/faqs.htm. Here's some more info on those files and it
saves me the typing.
PAF 2.31 – This is one of the very first versions of the PAF Program. Depending on
whether the file is a data
file (.dat) or backup file (.bak), the extensions are as follows: Indiv2.dat or
indiv2.bak, marr2.dat or marr2.bak, namadd2.dat or namadd2.bak, name2.dat or
name2.bak, notes2.dat or notes2.bak, reptitl2.dat or reptitl2.bak. Indiv2 can
be a combination of all six files.


The data came from LA, so I will need to go back and get a fresh copy, I
think.


LALA Land eh?

Have fun

Bob


Robert Heiling wrote:

Paul Blair wrote:



Well, the files turned up as .DAT - I wonder how I deal with that!
Scanning through them shows some odd format...

Paul Blair


I haven't seen a reply as yet, so permit me to point out that those would be
PAF 2.x files. FTW will import them.

Bob



cecilia wrote:


Paul Blair wrote:




I've been offered a GEDCOM from PAF 2.5 (if that was the last Apple
version?) for use in Australia. It will be sent by e-mail to my PC
The sender seemed a bit cautious about my handling this, due to
"technology differences". Well, I have a range of Windows apps that
accept GEDCOMs, surely one of them will handle this.


Searching http://www.google.com for
PAF 2.31 Gedcom
I find confirmation that there may be a difference (the Legacy site says
"Personal Ancestral File is now used in two different flavors, 2.5x and
3.x, and since they handle notes, sources and repositories in radically
different ways" - http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/TourExport.asp)
between the GedCom required for input to different versions of PAF - the
page gives details.

http://www.svpafug.org/convert.pdf indicates that GedCom from all
earlier versions of PAF can be imported to PAF 5, but not whether
identical databases are created.



Just for the record, the original author cut me a GEDCOM file, and it

imported just fine into PAF5, FTM, Legacy5.

Seems to be the way to go...thanks to everyone for their inputs. I
learned a lot!

Paul Blair