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READPAF - an abbreviated version of FR2SDF to demonstrate how to read
PAF files. Copyright (c) 1989 by Joseph R. Wood. Permission is
granted to copy for noncommercial or nonprofit use only.
All other rights reserved.
This program is an abbreviated version of my program FR2SDF. This
program is intended to demonstrate how to use Turbo Pascal to read
PAF files. It is strongly recommended that you send $5.00 to:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Family History Department
50 East North temple Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
and ask for "Personal Ancestral File Family Records Data Structure
Description". This document describes gives full technical details
on the data structures used in PAF. This information will be needed
to expand this program to read all the data in all the PAF files.
This program will only read the INDIV2 and NAME2 files of PAF. It
will write a file with the person's RIN number, all four name fields,
the sex field, older sibling RIN, own marriage MRIN, and parent's
marriage MRIN. It does not convert the dates, (which is a real
experience!) or the rest of the data in the INDIV2, MARR2, and NOTE2
files. This is left, as they say, as an exercise for the reader.
This program requires at least version 4.0 of Turbo Pascal. It should
work with later versions, but has only been tested with version 4.0.