genealogy for mac

By admin, September 8, 2009 12:49 pm

Personal Ancestral File for Mac?

So I’ve so far done a lot of work with Personal Ancestral File and don’t want to lose all the data I’ve put into it. But I’m sort of switching from PC to Mac.

Any tips, suggestions, thoughts or ideas?

I know that for PAF I need “iMac with a Windows emulator.” Don’t know what that is, but I don’t think I have it. So does this mean I can’t use PAF?

A Google search for PAF and Mac yielded Mac Genealogy Software. http://www.macgenealogy.org/personal-ancestral-file-paf-for-mac/ Anyone ever heard of this?

Any other suggestions for Mac genealogy? Must be a program to which I can transfer my PAF files (on a PC).

I can’t imagine that any standard program won’t make a gedcom file, which is how data is pulled into generic form to transfer between programs.
BACK UP your information, just as you would in normal cases. Keep it aside from your working stuff.
Expert the data from what you are using, into a gedcom.
Assuming you have access to a Mac for testing, download the Mac version of PAF. I don’t believe a version of PAF that is made for Mac is going to need any emulator but I could be wrong on that.
Test the file by installing the Mac program, then IMPORT the gedcom file that you created. What you are experimenting with, is importing a GEDCOM file.. gedcoms are not PAF limited or mac/pc limited. They are generic.. that is the whole point.
You should be fine. If it does not import or something, you still have your backup and original files. At the very worst scenario, you hang onto an old cheap pc to run your genealogy.

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