This is to Juanita and anyone else who believes they can't learn to download and operate the free PAF Software.
Listen up.........if I can do it you can do it, for this 57 year old grandmother to do it, anyone can do it. First go to www.familysearch.org. On the top there will be a row of blue tabs and it says order/download products, click on that blue tab. Another screen comes up and in the middle of that page it will say software downloads/free, click on that. It will ask you what language you want and the english language is free as well as the multi-language. Those would be numbers 77062988-s english language or 77062000's multi-language. Once you've decided and clicked on your choice it will give you your system requirements and it will tell you how to proceed.
The software is very easy to operate and you can begin using it and typing in your information. You will say to yourself, why didn't I do this sooner it was so easy. This makes it easy to keep track of your data/history and share it with friends, family etc and for you to see your progress. It also encourages you to do lateral research because you have a place to put everyone. It's like running a home, once you have adequate storage you know where to find everything, a place for everything and everything in it's place.
Genealogy software works just like storage, it's storage for our ancestors, a place for everyone and everyone in their place, neatly availabe for us to find them and place them with their respective family members.
I hope this helps..........Alicia in San Jose, Calif
Genealogy Software Assurance
ALICIA,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
I GUESS IT IS GOOD TO POUR OUT YOUR FEELINGS. THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN FANTASTIC IN MANY WAYS.
NOW I REALLY HAVE TO GO TO WORK.
JUANITA
Alicia Carrillo wrote:
This is to Juanita and anyone else who believes they can't learn to download and operate the free PAF Software.
Listen up.........if I can do it you can do it, for this 57 year old grandmother to do it, anyone can do it. First go to www.familysearch.org. On the top there will be a row of blue tabs and it says order/download products, click on that blue tab. Another screen comes up and in the middle of that page it will say software downloads/free, click on that. It will ask you what language you want and the english language is free as well as the multi-language. Those would be numbers 77062988-s english language or 77062000's multi-language. Once you've decided and clicked on your choice it will give you your system requirements and it will tell you how to proceed.
The software is very easy to operate and you can begin using it and typing in your information. You will say to yourself, why didn't I do this sooner it was so easy. This makes it easy to keep track of your data/history and share it with friends, family etc and for you to see your progress. It also encourages you to do lateral research because you have a place to put everyone. It's like running a home, once you have adequate storage you know where to find everything, a place for everything and everything in it's place.
Genealogy software works just like storage, it's storage for our ancestors, a place for everyone and everyone in their place, neatly availabe for us to find them and place them with their respective family members.
I hope this helps..........Alicia in San Jose, Calif
Genealogy Software Assurance
Alicia and Juanita, i thing this is very easy for us, and for me to. I waiting know more things.
the software PAF is very simple for my genelogy tree. God bless to yours.
Juan Luis Gomez de Chihuahua.
juanita delgado escribió:
ALICIA,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
I GUESS IT IS GOOD TO POUR OUT YOUR FEELINGS. THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN FANTASTIC IN MANY WAYS.
NOW I REALLY HAVE TO GO TO WORK.
JUANITA
Alicia Carrillo wrote:
This is to Juanita and anyone else who believes they can't learn to download and operate the free PAF Software.
Listen up.........if I can do it you can do it, for this 57 year old grandmother to do it, anyone can do it. First go to www.familysearch.org. On the top there will be a row of blue tabs and it says order/download products, click on that blue tab. Another screen comes up and in the middle of that page it will say software downloads/free, click on that. It will ask you what language you want and the english language is free as well as the multi-language. Those would be numbers 77062988-s english language or 77062000's multi-language. Once you've decided and clicked on your choice it will give you your system requirements and it will tell you how to proceed.
The software is very easy to operate and you can begin using it and typing in your information. You will say to yourself, why didn't I do this sooner it was so easy. This makes it easy to keep track of your data/history and share it with friends, family etc and for you to see your progress. It also encourages you to do lateral research because you have a place to put everyone. It's like running a home, once you have adequate storage you know where to find everything, a place for everything and everything in it's place.
Genealogy software works just like storage, it's storage for our ancestors, a place for everyone and everyone in their place, neatly availabe for us to find them and place them with their respective family members.
I hope this helps..........Alicia in San Jose, Calif
Genealogy Software Assurance
Juan Luis,
Gracias, espero que esto inspire a esas personas que se creen incapacitadas en el uso de programas genealogicos. Si no nos arriesgamos a aprender algo nuevo, como podemos progresar?
Siempre hay que preguntar y con el solo hecho de preguntar se expone uno a nuevas oportunidades. Le deseo suerte en sus investigaciones.
Atentamente,
Alicia de San Jose
----- Original Message ----
From: Juan Luis Gomez
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Genealogy Software Assurance
Alicia and Juanita, i thing this is very easy for us, and for me to. I waiting know more things.
the software PAF is very simple for my genelogy tree. God bless to yours.
Juan Luis Gomez de Chihuahua.
Thank You Alicia
Alicia:
Thank you for sharing your experience with genealogy software and more importantly your analogy of such software and storage in one's home. It is a very vivid and valid analogy.
Just to share another story, this is how I got started with genealogy. My father asked me to help him organize information that he had so he could create a chart of some sort for a family reunion... if I had only known what I was getting into when I volunteered for the task and downloaded PAF...
My only mistake was to start entering names as quickly as possible without entering appropriate source information and details as to conjectures I was making along the way when the source documents did not explicitly state a relationship... Now it has become a real headache to fix what could have been done right from the onset with very little additional efforts. So my advice to anyone starting out is to document everything... PAF and other software has places to put notes and sources and these should be used extensively. You will thank yourself a few years down the line, not to mention that generations after you will thank you profusely as they review your work.
Thank You Alicia
Hi Arturo & Alicia,
Reading your messages brought back memories of how I started with genealogy
a few years ago......I wish I had taken it a little slower and CITED ALL MY
SOURCES instead of making "little notes here and there"......I still have
those notes but some have no dates, no places, nothing but info......and it
really does not mean much to me unless I have something to at least jog my
memory.........thank goodness I started putting dates and little notes like
"my conversation with Aunt Mary at her house on January 10, 1996" and this
brings me back to that time and sometimes I can remember other bits of info
that I now write down in the "notes" section of my software. It is all a
learning process and I am always learning something every day that I do my
research.
No ONE person will ever know it all but we can learn from others such as we
do in this group. That is one reason that Nuestros Ranchos is growing and
growing.......we all have the same passion and thanks to people like Arturo,
Joseph, Alicia, Erlinda, Jonathan, Marge and the MANY OTHERS who are so
generous and share their knowledge, we are able to see our family trees grow
and grow!
Josie in San Antonio
-----Original Message-----
From: research-bounces@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
[mailto:research-bounces@lists.nuestrosranchos.org] On Behalf Of arturoramos
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:25 AM
To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Thank You Alicia
Alicia:
Thank you for sharing your experience with genealogy software and more
importantly your analogy of such software and storage in one's home. It is
a very vivid and valid analogy.
Just to share another story, this is how I got started with genealogy. My
father asked me to help him organize information that he had so he could
create a chart of some sort for a family reunion... if I had only known what
I was getting into when I volunteered for the task and downloaded PAF...
My only mistake was to start entering names as quickly as possible without
entering appropriate source information and details as to conjectures I was
making along the way when the source documents did not explicitly state a
relationship... Now it has become a real headache to fix what could have
been done right from the onset with very little additional efforts. So my
advice to anyone starting out is to document everything... PAF and other
software has places to put notes and sources and these should be used
extensively. You will thank yourself a few years down the line, not to
mention that generations after you will thank you profusely as they review
your work.
Thank You Alicia
To me, one of the best benefits is finding new cousins. Prima Marge:)
On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Josie T. Trevino wrote:
> Hi Arturo & Alicia,
>
> Reading your messages brought back memories of how I started with
> genealogy
> a few years ago......I wish I had taken it a little slower and CITED
> ALL MY
> SOURCES instead of making "little notes here and there"......I still
> have
> those notes but some have no dates, no places, nothing but
> info......and it
> really does not mean much to me unless I have something to at least
> jog my
> memory.........thank goodness I started putting dates and little notes
> like
> "my conversation with Aunt Mary at her house on January 10, 1996" and
> this
> brings me back to that time and sometimes I can remember other bits of
> info
> that I now write down in the "notes" section of my software. It is all
> a
> learning process and I am always learning something every day that I
> do my
> research.
>
> No ONE person will ever know it all but we can learn from others such
> as we
> do in this group. That is one reason that Nuestros Ranchos is growing
> and
> growing.......we all have the same passion and thanks to people like
> Arturo,
> Joseph, Alicia, Erlinda, Jonathan, Marge and the MANY OTHERS who are so
> generous and share their knowledge, we are able to see our family
> trees grow
> and grow!
>
> Josie in San Antonio
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: research-bounces@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> [mailto:research-bounces@lists.nuestrosranchos.org] On Behalf Of
> arturoramos
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:25 AM
> To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Thank You Alicia
>
>
> Alicia:
>
> Thank you for sharing your experience with genealogy software and more
> importantly your analogy of such software and storage in one's home.
> It is
> a very vivid and valid analogy.
>
> Just to share another story, this is how I got started with genealogy.
> My
> father asked me to help him organize information that he had so he
> could
> create a chart of some sort for a family reunion... if I had only
> known what
> I was getting into when I volunteered for the task and downloaded
> PAF...
>
> My only mistake was to start entering names as quickly as possible
> without
> entering appropriate source information and details as to conjectures
> I was
> making along the way when the source documents did not explicitly
> state a
> relationship... Now it has become a real headache to fix what could
> have
> been done right from the onset with very little additional efforts.
> So my
> advice to anyone starting out is to document everything... PAF and
> other
> software has places to put notes and sources and these should be used
> extensively. You will thank yourself a few years down the line, not to
> mention that generations after you will thank you profusely as they
> review
> your work.