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PRESS CONTACT
Gaylon Findlay
President
801 280 4434
gfindlay@ancquest.com
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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Incline
Software Releases PAFWiz 2.0
Salt Lake City, Utah (May 10, 2007) – Incline Software,
LC, a producer of Windows®-based Family Tree software products, announced
today that a new version of its PAFWiz was recently released. This new
version 2.0 provides several important new capabilities.
PAFWiz is an enhancement
utility to supplement Personal Ancestral File® (PAF) version 5. Users of
PAF 5 (which is based on an older version of Incline Software’s Ancestral
Quest™) can benefit from a huge list of additional capabilities which are
not available in PAF.
Major New Features
True PAF 5 Compatibility. In 1999,
Incline Software helped the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(LDS Church) create their first Windows version of Personal Ancestral File®
(PAF), by giving the LDS Church a copy of the Ancestral Quest source code.
With the advent of PAF 5, the LDS
Church changed PAF’s
database, making older versions of PAF and other PAF utilities incompatible
with it. The first version of PAFWiz (released in 2003) could open a PAF 5
database to create reports and generate web pages. The new version 2.0 of
PAFWiz can now directly edit a PAF 5 database, and scores of additional
capabilities have been made available to help a PAF user work with a PAF 5
database.
To Do Lists/Research Manager. Keep
track of research efforts and requirements.
Database Compare and Merge.
Compatible databases (including GEDCOM files and PAF files) can be compared
with a main PAF 5 database. Similarities and differences can be discovered.
Then selected new individuals, family lines, or changes can be imported and
merged. This revolutionary new feature helps in coordinating research
efforts in ways that eliminate the tedium of any past methods.
Publish a Family Book. PAFWiz now
allows a user to print out any combination of many of its reports under an
umbrella of a master Table of Contents and master Index. Reports from
PAFWiz (such as Pedigree Charts, Fan Charts, Family Group Records, Ancestry
Charts, Descendant Charts, Scrapbook Pages, narrative reports and more) can
be supplemented with other documents and narratives in a way that allows
the user to create a family book from their recorded data in a form ready
to be published.
Other Features
Individual Summary View. All of the
information about an individual can be viewed on one screen. This screen
can be used as a launch-point to edit any data about the individual, or to
navigate to other individuals.
Improved Individual Merge. In PAF
5, the user can only control certain pieces of data during the merge
process. Now any piece of data can be selected or discarded, and most data
from both records can be preserved.
Notes.
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Spell Check Notes.
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Global Search and Replace in Notes
Dropline Descendants Chart. A
traditional English style horizontal descendants chart is now available.
Family lines and individuals can be specifically excluded to make the chart
show just the individuals desired.
Confidentiality. Parents, children
and spouses can now be flagged as confidential, so that they will not
appear on reports and in GEDCOM files. Family secrets can now be recorded,
yet kept confidential.
Sources.
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Sort the list of sources by author as well
as title, making sources easier to find.
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Sources can now be categorized, so that only
sources matching a specified category will be displayed in the list of
sources, making a source much easier to locate.
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Merge any Source.
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Merge Repositories
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Re-order sources for an event
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Create a Master Source for a GEDCOM import
LDS Features. A new IGI search and
merge screen allows for more efficient reconciling of LDS ordinance
information from the online IGI.
Find Women by Married Name. A new option
in the Name List allows sorting of women by their spouses surname, so they
can be located based on their married name.
DNA. DNA test results can be
stored.
Marriage Search Screen. In addition
to sorting by record number, marriages can now be sorted by name of husband
or wife, making it much more natural to locate a couple.
Place Maps. Click on a place name
to map the name on an Internet mapping service.
Custom IDs. In addition to
Ahnentafel numbering systems, IDs can now be generated using the Henry and
Dollarhide systems.
Back/Forward Buttons. Going back to
an individual that was recently worked on is much easier with the addition
of these browser like buttons.
Additional Features.
There are additional new
features not listed here. See www.pafwiz.com/PW2Features.htm
for a complete list. And for a list of all enhancements available in PAFWiz
2.0 that are not in PAF 5, see www.ancquest.com/pafwiz/pafwizflyer.pdf.
This new version of PAFWiz is
available at for $24.95. Current users of any prior version of PAFWiz can
upgrade for $16.95. PAFWiz 2.0 can be purchased from some bookstores,
including Deseret Book stores. It can also be purchased directly from
Incline Software from www.pafwiz.com,
or by calling Incline Software at 1-800-825-8864 (or 1-801-280-4434). A
trial version is available for free from the website.
Incline Software™ first
developed Ancestral Quest in 1994. AQ is a powerful yet extremely easy to
use, full-featured genealogy records manager. Its reporting capabilities
are excellent, and it uses unique, advanced technologies to enable accurate
source documentation. Incline Software gave much of this capability to the LDS Church in 1999 for use in the
Windows versions of PAF. PAFWiz 2.0 now provides most of the capabilities
of the latest version of Ancestral Quest to PAF users in an add-on utility
program.
To find out more about PAFWiz
or Incline Software, visit the web site www.pafwiz.com.
Ancestral Quest and Incline Software are trademarks of Incline
Software, LC. Other marks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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