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May 2007 Meeting Summary

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.

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