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Paf5

barrie

barrie

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Does anyone else use PAF5 from the LDS site to store some of their family tree work? If anyone does, could you please help me, by telling me how to alter the "Home" person.

I bought myself a new laptop yesterday, out of the money I have saved by not smoking, when I transfered my tree history onto the new laptop, it has the wrong person as "Home". I always use my Dads name for this.

Thank you.
Barrie.
 
Hi Barry, I use PAF but I'm not sure what you mean by Home person. I have a separate file for each family, each one staring with the oldest male. This is what the Help on PAF says about moving pople around in your files.

Moving Around on the Family View Screen
The name in the upper-left portion of the screen is in the primary position. You use several methods to move another person to the primary position:
• Click the triangular arrow button next to the person’s name.
• On the keyboard, press S to move the spouse, F to move the father, M to move the mother, or C to move a child. (These keys work much the same way as they did in previous versions of Personal Ancestral File.)
• Right-click on an individual, and select Primary.
• Use one of the options listed on the Search menu.
• Hold down the Ctrl key, and double-click on the individual.

If this is not what you want, let me have a snap shot of yor PAF.
 
Hello Di.

I have always used my dad as the primary or home person. Where ever I am in the family tree, if I click onto the home person at the top of the screen, [its a mans head with a red arrow on it] the tree goes back to the home person, in this case my dad.

Since installing Paf5 on this laptop, the home person has changed, and I want to get it back to being my dad. Hope that makes sense.

Barrie.

ps how do I do a snapshot?
 
Hi Barry, if you are researching your family name then the oldest person in the family is on the top of the tree in PAF5. So each family name you research will have a different file and a different person at the top of the tree. I went into each of my files and when I pressed the head with red arrow I got the senior member of that family, which is what I expected to get. You can put your father there by following the help I put in my previous reply. The file calls him the primary person.

When I said snapshot I just meant send me a copy of the file, but I understand what you mean, and I think you can do it.

Meant to say well done giving up smoking, we are off on holiday soon, all paid for out of the old cigs fund.:)
 
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