Robert,
Since all Family History Centers (FHC) are staffed by either
volunteers or church members who have been assigned to the work, the
responses you would receive if you visited other FHCs would differ
from one to the other.
I volunteer at a FHC and always promote Legacy because the standard
edition is free and that allows newcomers to try it without any
financial commitment. It is like what used to be said for shareware
-- "Try it before you buy it". I find that when the newcomers
return to the FHC they often tell me that they have paid the fee to
receive the deluxe version because they found that they liked the program.
As for PAF, while it is a good product for what it did, it is no
longer being updated by the Mormons as they have moved to a web
portal for their church members to enter their Temple Ready work. No
new edition of PAF has come out in several years and they are not
planning to do so from what I had heard.
As an FHC volunteer, I used to have to show them how to use PAF and
then how to begin their Temple Ready work. That is no longer the
case with their new web portal as they don't even use PAF to enter
their basic data.
So, I regularly promote Legacy. Maybe I should ask for a sales
commission?? <GRIN> Just joking here!
Cathy
At 07:43 AM 8/15/2009 -0500, you wrote:
This is -almost- off topic, to me.
I took a copy of my Legacy family file with me to our local family
history center. The librarian there had never heard of it- and
pushed PAF as hard as he could, trying to shoot down Legacy every way he could.
It is easier to cooperate than to fight <g>- so I have a question
please: Has anyone converted from a Legacy family file to a PAF
family file, used that file at a FHC, and when you get home, import
back into Legacy all right? How do you convert safely? That is, not
lose any events that are not standard to PAF but are all right with Legacy?
Thank you.
Robert
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