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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Then and Now -- Family Tree Software

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to answer these questions: Which genealogy software have you used over your genealogy career to document your genealogy and family history research?  What did you start with (Then) and what do you presently use (Now)?  Please share your experiences. Here's mine: I began documenting my genealogy on paper sheets: family group sheets and pedigree charts. Once I got a personal computer, I discovered Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and used that for many years, first as a DOS program and later as a Windows program. This was a program provided by the Genealogy Society of Utah (Mormons). The Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group ( https://www.svcgg.org/ ) came up with standards or procedures for using PAF to its fullest and I followed the methods for documenting my work in the notes area using their proc...