I still haven’t transferred my LDS Personal Ancestry Files over to my mac because I’m afraid I’ll screw things up making the mac run windows files. Do I use Crossover? Parallel?
What’s the best software for the PAF?
(sigh)
Just copy the files, then use this:
http://www.lanopalera.net/Genealogy/AboutPAWriter.html
I have written a freeware genealogy program, Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II), for the Macintosh, one version for MacOS 9.x and one for MacOS X. It combines most of the features of the LDS Personal Ancestral File program (PAF) for the Macintosh (for which all development stopped a few years ago after release 2.3.1), with additional features that generate web pages (in HTML), word processing files (in RTF for, e.g., AppleWorks) and desktop publishing files (in MML for FrameMaker). The generated report files include genealogical dictionaries, registers, ahnentafels and lineages—such as appear on this site—as well as some interesting text files and pedigree charts.