What FS-certified PAF alternative should Mac users use?
-
- New Member
- Posts: 46
- Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:25 pm
What FS-certified PAF alternative should Mac users use?
Just wondering.
-
- Community Administrator
- Posts: 34417
- Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:53 pm
- Location: U.S.
Re: What FS-certified PAF alternative should Mac users use?
I wouldn't say "should use". There is one Mac product available. You can find it on the Family History Products page.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
-
- New Member
- Posts: 46
- Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:25 pm
Re: What FS-certified PAF alternative should Mac users use?
Thanks, Russell. I think there's a typo in your link.
Anyway, it seems like the focus of major GEDCOM software makers is on making a product that works on Windows. It'd be nice if they would use a high-end programming language like Java, since programs built on those types of programming languages either work on multiple platforms or don't work on any.
Edit: Looks like there's a demo version. I'd rather have a good piece of software that's free like PAF was.
Anyway, it seems like the focus of major GEDCOM software makers is on making a product that works on Windows. It'd be nice if they would use a high-end programming language like Java, since programs built on those types of programming languages either work on multiple platforms or don't work on any.
Edit: Looks like there's a demo version. I'd rather have a good piece of software that's free like PAF was.
-
- Community Administrator
- Posts: 34417
- Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:53 pm
- Location: U.S.
Re: What FS-certified PAF alternative should Mac users use?
It seems to work OK for me, but you'll have to select the appropriate tab. I don't see how to code that in the URL.moonman239 wrote:I think there's a typo in your link.
Unfortunately that seems to be the current situation.moonman239 wrote:Anyway, it seems like the focus of major GEDCOM software makers is on making a product that works on Windows.
If you can find a way to run a Windows program, you might look at Ancestral Quest as that has the look and feel and a direct tie to the old PAF code.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
-
- New Member
- Posts: 46
- Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:25 pm
Re: What FS-certified PAF alternative should Mac users use?
I clicked on the link from my e-mail inbox. Strangely, it worked when I clicked on the link you posted on this Website.
Here's the URL I clicked on from my inbox: https://familysearch.org/products/]Family
Anyway, there is a way to run Windows programs on a Mac, but I don't know if it runs afoul of any applicable copyright laws.
Here's the URL I clicked on from my inbox: https://familysearch.org/products/]Family
Anyway, there is a way to run Windows programs on a Mac, but I don't know if it runs afoul of any applicable copyright laws.
-
- Community Administrator
- Posts: 34417
- Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:53 pm
- Location: U.S.
Re: What FS-certified PAF alternative should Mac users use?
Depends on how you obtain the programs to do it.moonman239 wrote:Anyway, there is a way to run Windows programs on a Mac, but I don't know if it runs afoul of any applicable copyright laws.
Have you searched the Help Center? Try doing a Google search and adding "site:churchofjesuschrist.org/help" to the search criteria.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.
So we can better help you, please edit your Profile to include your general location.