If you’re in the Northern Utah area you might be interested in the Layton Personal Ancestral File Users Group (LPAFUG).
LPFUG meets the last Wednesday of every month at 7:15 pm at the Layton Hills Family History Center (LHFHC), 2300 North 1200 West, Layton, Utah 84041.
PAF helps you manage your family history (genealogy) information, creates pedigree files, and family group sheets.
Here’s your chance to share your expertise, ask questions, and learn how to use PAF.
No cost to join in!
Many of you already know, the standard genealogy software for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been PAF (Personal Ancestral File). The software hasn’t seen an update in a long, long time, and most people have moved on to Legacy.
I just read a Church Memo: no future development is planned for PAF. Instead, the Church is developing an online tool that will enable you to import your GEDCOM file and use it online. They are advising that you do not import large GEDCOMs for various reasons. They do not plan to offer an “offline” software, but assure us that there will be 3rd party applications that will be enabled to sync with the new online tool.
No ETA regarding its public availability was mentioned.
Most Family Historians we know use either Legacy or PAF as their family history/genealogy software of choice. While both of these programs do their jobs well, neither has really pushed the envelope of what can be done or how data is entered or presented. We’re not saying that’s a bad thing, but we’re not alone in our observations.
The folks over at Vertigo have used Microsoft’s latest technologies to “re-write” how family history works – or at least how you input and view your data.
Though the power of WPF (Microsoft’s new presentation engine) Family.Show has the ability to display your family tree in ways that you wouldn’t have imagined.
The program can import your GEDCOM file.
Those of you familiar with this site will notice a significant change that we underwent today.
We upgraded from WordPress 2.1 to WordPress 2.6 (and applied the permalinks patch).
We did this for a few reasons; posts are easier to update and maintain than pages (in our experience), post are more quickly indexed in search engines (which will make your task of finding the information you need faster and easier), and we generally have more flexibility in adding content than we did before. Unfortunately, this also means that search engines and bookmarks that point to the old pages will now be redirected to the homepage, but from there you can use our search box (over there on the left) to quickly find what you’re looking for.
We really liked the old one, but it wasn’t compatible with WordPress 2.6, so this one seems to do what we need it to do without being overly “heavy” (again, the point here is to help you find what you’re looking for that much faster).
Tags are the new in-thing, and they work much better for what we’re trying to do. Categories, by definition, are hierarchical, so there has to be a rigid structure. This can be limiting in the way we arrange our information. Tags, on the other hand are, by definition, NON-hierarchical. This means we can add valuable meta-information to our articles and histories, without being shackled down to pre-established categories.
We had some Yahoo Ads running on the site before, that never paid off for us, so now we’ve switched over to Google Ads. Most of the feedback that we got from you (our readers) was that the Yahoo Ads either weren’t all that relevant to the article, or you just didn’t trust Yahoo as much as you do Google. You asked, we listened, and we now have Google Ads running in the sidebars and at the bottom of the page. If you see something you’re interested in feel free to click. This ultimately helps us to keep the site running.
Ed health has been degrading over the last several months. Team that up with his new “job” helping people over the phone with getting up and running with their family histories, and, well, he doesn’t have a lot of extra time, and that which he does is precious to his family.
Natalie and I are trying to help him compile the histories that he has for personal use first, and will likely then publish them here as well.
Thank you for sticking with us and for all the thoughts and prayers for Ed!
- Joe
According to wikipedia:
Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees. This involves the collection of the names of relatives, both living and deceased, and establishing the relationships among them based on primary, secondary and/or circumstantial evidence or documentation, thus building up a cohesive family tree. Genealogy (often misspelled “genealogy”) is often also referred to as family history, although these terms may be used distinctly: the former being the basic study of who is related to whom; the latter involving more “fleshing out” of the lives and personal histories of the individuals involved.
Here are some links that may help you:
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Samuel Uriah Porter(information coming soon) The Porter LineA LIFE SKETCH OF ELIZA MINERVA PORTER BIGLER In a pioneer settlement in Northern Arizona, on the banks of the Little Colorado River, was a town named Sunset. Across the river north-east from the present town of Winslow, Arizona. On November 2, 1879 was born to Samuel Uriah Porter and Mary Minerva Porter, just as the bell tolled to tell the people that dinner was ready, a lovely baby daughter. She was given the name of Eliza Minerva for her mother, grandmother, and aunt. Her parents were very glad she had come to bless their home even though her mother was very sick and it was feared that she would not pull through. The priesthood was called, and they gave her a blessing, and the Lord saw fit for her to live. They lived the United Order in the Sunset Fort. Each doing his share of the plowing, harrowing, cording wool, making cloth, cheese, and butter. They lived there until Eliza was nine months old, when her father’s eyes got very sore and it was feared that he would lose his eyesight. It was decided that they should go back to Salt Lake City to seek medical aid. With a cow and a horse pulling the wagon they set out for Utah. The horse was called “Old Knitting Machine” because the rugs made from a knitting; machine were sold to buy the horse. This machine was given to grandmother by her mother, and was the only Knitting machine in Porterville at the time. When they arrived in Porterville, grandmother traded the Knitting machine for a sewing machine. Eliza’s mother and aunts were very good seamstresses and Eliza grew to be one also. They lived in Porterville until Continue reading Orville Edwin Bigler
(From his journals. Written June 19, 1959.) Mark (Marx) Bigler
MARK BIGLER, THE IMMIGRANT 1705 – 1787 by Norman Burns, 1960 with editorial comment in italics by Franklin K. Brough, 1981 and rev. made by Edwin Bigler from research of Mark Bigler and family. 30 December 2006 Mark Bigler, our earliest known ancestor in America, came from Ingolsheim, Alsace, France, which is near the Rine River. Marks father had four sons: Hans Jacob of 1701, Hans Georg 1703, Marx 1705, Hans Michael 1707. Continue reading
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I was born, March 26, 1908 Central, Arizona, Graham County to the parents of Clarence Meudle Bigler, and Edith Vilate Porter. After I was born 
