PAF Insight Challenge
The Contest has ended but please take the Challenge anyway. You might be surprised at what you discover. You don't need to own PAF Insight to participate. You can go to your local Family History Center and use it there.
If you are like most PAF Insight users, you think of it as "that program that helps you search the IGI".
If you are like most PAF Insight users I have talked to, you don't know why you would want or need to run "Edit RINs and Pedigrees".
I have a challenge for you. If you have never run the Edit RINs and Pedigrees function, do it today.
Here's why:
It is a fact that most people have extra, unattached, pedigrees floating around in their PAF database. It is also a fact that most people don't think that they have them. Probably because they never see them in PAF. That is because PAF doesn't make it easy to see them.
So take the challenge. Here's how:
1. Write down how many extra pedigrees you think you have.
2. Open your database in PAF.
3. Go to Tools - PAF Insight.
4. Choose Edit RINs and Pedigrees.
5. The list of individuals that appears will be grouped in pedigrees. Scroll to the bottom of the list.
6. Look in the Pedigree column. If you see anything other than "Main Pedigree" in that column, you have some extra pedigrees.
7. Take a careful look at them and see if you can figure out where they belong. They may need to be "grafted" into your main pedigree. Or perhaps they are duplicates that should be merged (using the PAF Insight Merge function). Or maybe they aren't related to you at all.
PAF Insight Challenge Results
Our PAF Insight Challenge has come to an end. We received 388 challenge replies. We thought we would share some of the results of our Challenge.The average number of pedigrees people thought they had when they started was 8.9.
The average number of pedigrees people found was 119.
86% had more pedigrees than they guessed they would have.
87% had more than one pedigree in their file.
Some of the comments we received included: 33 Surprised, 11 Amazed, 11 Shocked, 1 Gobsmacked, 12 Interesting, 1 Enlightening, 1 Horrified, 1 Flabbergasted, 10 Wow, 2 Embarrassed, 1 Eeek, 1 Incredible, and 1 Stunned.
The winner of the downloadable copy of Personal Historian is Louise Dean.
Congratulations Louise!
Thank you to all who participated in the Challenge and we hope that it has helped many learn what is hiding in their database.
For further instructions on how to delete un-wanted pedigrees from your file, please refer to the PAF Insight lesson on that covers Editing RINs and Pedigrees
If you have pedigrees in your file that you think should be linked to the main pedigree, you will need to research where they should connect. After determining that they should be connected and where, save the file that you would like to connect as as new file using "Save as" after trimming all of the other pedigrees from you file. Be sure to SAVE AS and not SAVE. You should make a backup of your file before starting just in case you delete something permanently in error. You can use PAF Insight's Compare and Sync to update the main pedigree with the pedigree you want to add.
If you have duplicates individuals in the extra pedigrees, you can use the PAF Insight Merge to connect the pedigrees that you want to connect.
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