OPENING DISCUSSION;
• Secretary will put all members into a list in BCC
• Apple store person shopper card distrubuted
• Digital Rights Manger lifted on many songs on iTunes store in future will be cost $1.29 per song
• There was a discussion of iPod shuffle. Ed Danley passed around his small Shuffle
• discussion of editing iPhoto library library options
PROGRAM:
Ed Danley and Phil De Buhr presented program on Genaeology
Ed: Talked about Personal Ancestrial File application – Old application on genealogy supported by Mormons
Mac Family Tree application data based may be read by any data application
Phil: Used Personal Ancestral File PAF 2.3.1 Family Records Program running in Classic in Panther OSX 10.3.9. (There is also a free
download Windows version that will run on the new Intel Macs) and demonstrated his years of research on his family.
He listed the qualities of the program:
• changes are stored when updates are made
• organizes data in an easy way that you can get to it fast
• relationship calculator helps define relationships
• weakness designed for short report, difficulty for Phil’s large data base
• best sources are people in family
• export a Ged Comm file with single relative
• showed several descendants charts
• can add notes that relation to specific relative
• application has never crashed
• well designed for its purpose, robust and fast
30 years of data & photos of family material by Phil
Mac World May issue review of genealogy applications
NEXT MEETING: June 18 at Jewel/Osco on Money Applications, Online
Banking, Quicken, etc.