Thursday, July 06, 2006

Ancestry.com Research Tool now available

The Family History Centre at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), now has two computers with free access to Ancestry.com. This is an excellent tool to further your genealogy research and provides access to many databases that would cost you $15 per month based on an annual subscription.

The Family History Centre is located at: 10 Northridge Parkway (off St Peter's Road behind the KFC), Charlottetown, PE. Tel 902 566-1013 (you must call ahead to reserve a computer or fiche reader) Hours are Tuesdays 1900h - 2100h and Thursdays 0900h - 1600h.

The new version of Personal Ancestral File (PAF 5) from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is available by download only, at no cost. This is one of the best software packages around and the only one I am aware of that will accept cyrillic letters and print out properly. However, if you are running anything older than WIN98, you should download PAF 4, which unfortunately does not support cyrillic. I understand that WIN95 will work with the drivers, but if you are hesitant, best to stick to the previous version and put your cyrillic notes into a word processor file. Go to: http://www.familysearch.org/

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