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║ DESCEND ║
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║ PAF Review - Version 93.1 - 1 March 1993 ║
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║ Compiled by Mike St. Clair ║
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║ This is file DESCEND.INF ║
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Version: 2.3
Author: John C. Barron
Address: 510 E. Braker Lane, Austin, TX 78753
Version Date: April 1992
BBS File Name: DESCEN23.ZIP
Software Type: Shareware
Fee: $20
Read/Write: Read only
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║ Brief Description ║
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DESCEND reads Personal Ancestral File (PAF) data and produces an
expanded descendant chart with up to 16 generations, 5 marriages
per person, and 20 children per couple.
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║ Long Description ║
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The Personal Ancestral File Genealogy System produced and sold by
the Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) is an extremely good,
inexpensive way for genealogists to organize their data. For
storage and searches it is hard to beat, but its output is very
generic and is often not optimal for certain uses. Along with
the usual pedigree charts and family group sheets, PAF produces
a descendant chart. It is limited in nature and outputs just
the generation number, name,date of birth,and RIN of the
descendants. You can route it to screen, disk, or printer but
you have no control over the contents.
DESCEND was created to produce a more useful and flexible
descendant chart. It produces an expanded chart with up to 16
generations, 5 marriages per person, and 20 children per couple.
There is a limit of 5,000 selected marriages. An individual
entry consists of a descendant with birth, death, and (optional)
notes followed by a spouse with birth, marriage, death,
(optional) parent data, and notes. This pattern is then repeated
for their children. An index is generated after the chart. Up
to 5,200 index entries can be produced and the user is warned if
the index cannot be completed.
The chart can be routed to three output sources: printer,
screen, or disk file. Printer drivers for about 40 printers can
be selected and custom drivers can also constructed for a
specific other printers. DESCEND requires a printer which will
support a 16 pitch font to operate correctly since it indents for
each generation.