Welcome

Welcome to the Personal Ancestral File Lessons. These lessons are for Personal Ancestral File version 5.0. The lessons cover:

• Getting Started: Typing in Your Family
• Getting Started: Making Changes
• Notes and Sources
• Printing Forms and Reports
• Sharing Files
• Match/Merge
• Advanced Focus/Filter

Navigation

• Use the navigation panel on the left to select a lesson. Click on the lesson title, and then use the Next and Back buttons at the lower-left corner to move through the lesson. Or, you can click on the page number below the lesson title to go to that page.
• Some lesson pages will have a Show Me or Try Me link. When you click on the Show Me or Try Me text, a demonstration will be displayed in a popup window. You can return to the lessons by clicking the Quit button in the popup window.
• The Show Me and Try Me demonstrations use a program called Flash. Flash comes with the latest versions of most browsers. If you cannot use the Show Me demonstrations, click the Flash icon below to download this program.
• The lessons are best viewed with an 800 X 600 screen resolution.
• You may want to view one lesson and then return to Personal Ancestral File to try out what you learned. You can have both the lessons and Personal Ancestral File open at the same time and switch between the two. If you close these lessons, you can return at any time. In Personal Ancestral File, from the Help menu, select Lessons.
• To exit the lessons, simply close the browser window by clicking the X in the upper-right hand corner of this window.