So, I’ve used it for the past 2+ years unsupported, but I know full well that with the advent of new operating systems, one day it’s not going to work anymore and I surely don’t want to have a crisis and have to adapt on top of a crisis situation. To me, software is only a tool and the tool I had was fine. I didn’t want to have to take the time to evaluate and learn anything else. When the Mormon Church discontinued support for PAF in 2013, I was greatly saddened, not because the software had been free and I was now going to have to purchase software, but because I knew that software so well and was so comfortable using it. I later discovered I should have been using source fields and such, but I’m not even sure there was a source field initially. I probably didn’t use it exactly correctly, because I typed everything into the notes field which was, thankfully, of unlimited size.
It allowed me to organize my information.
I worked in the computer industry and they wanted to see how this new-fangled computer software thing worked. When I first installed PAF back in the 1980s on my old CPM machine, everyone at the local Family History Center was cautiously curious.
