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Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is a free genealogy and family history program. PAF allows you to quickly and easily collect, organize and share your family history and genealogy information. FamilySearch’s family history centers are frequented by millions of genealogy enthusiasts.

The following programs are now available for use in centers: Genealogy management software of Ancestral Quest 12 (by Incline Software); Legacy Family Tree (by Milennia Corp.) and Family History software utilities of Personal Historian (Milennia Corp.) which writes and preserves personal life stories;

PAFWiz 2.0 (Incline Software) with add-on tools and report utility for PAF 5.2; PAF Insight (Ohana Software), which performs advanced functions related to margins and editing; PAF Companion 5.2 (Progeny Software), an add-on utility that prints a variety of charts and reports in different formats;

Family Atlas (Roots Magic), which creates and publishes custom maps from personal genealogy data; Pedigree Analysis (Generation Maps); Genelines (Progeny Software) and Map My Family Tree (Progeny Software).