New Features:

Data can be entered in more languages.

Added support for code page 1250 (Latin-2, Central Europe) to the support we already had for 1252 (Latin-1, US and Western Europe). 1250 supports Albania, Croatia, Czech, Faeroese, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian. 1252 supports Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish. In some cases you must be running Windows in one of these languages to be able to add characters from that language.

4.0.4, released 2/2/2000

Enhancements:

Portuguese, German, and French (in addition to English and Spanish) can be selected as the language for the program to use.

Browse buttons added to folders in Preferences.

Improved the file check/repair: In most cases database errors "Source x less (or greater) pointer is not less (or greater)" can be repaired.

Source records with missing titles are checked and repaired.

Event type records with missing fields are reported. These only occur when importing from GEDCOM files created by other genealogy software and must be fixed manually by the user.

Multimedia records are checked

Web pages are created in "My Documents" by default. In Preferences you can choose the location where web pages will be created.

Most of the reports can be printed to a file (in Rich Text Format). To print to a file, check the "Print to file" checkbox on the Print dialog. The checkbox is located just below the Help button on the Print Reports dialog. When creating a report to a file, index marks are placed in the document so you can use your word processor to generate a complete index of your document.

The place list includes custom events as well as standard events.

When importing GEDCOM files, you can disable the dialog that asks if you want instructions about how to match/merge and link duplicate individuals. You might want to do this if you frequently import GEDCOM files and don't want to be prompted at the end of each import.

When adding a spouse, you can specify that the spouse is unknown by pressing the "Unknown" button.

You can enter multiple marriages for the same couple. This allows you to add a re-marriage for a couple who was divorced.

In File Check/Repair added additional checks for bad marriage chains for individuals.

PAF now maintains separate ditto lists for given names and surnames. You can turn off the "auto complete" feature for names so that as you type names they won't automatically be completed with a matching name from the list of names you recently entered.

In the Family view, you can navigate to the next or previous MRIN with the + or - keys.

The Page Up and Page Down keys can be used to cycle through the other marriages for the primary individual when that individual has more than one marriage.

In the Spanish version, "Masculino" and "Feminino" are used for sex codes instead of "Hombre" and "Mujer"

MIDI and video files can be played in the scrapbook and slide show

MPG = (Manasota PAF Group)
PUG = PAF User's Guide
DM = Dear Mytle

PAF Guide

Adding Information

PAF 4.0 Adding a Spouse (MPG)
Remarriages - Possible Solutions in PAF 4.0 (MPG)
Adding a Child  - PAF (MPG)
PAF 4.0.2 - Illegitimate & Adopted Children (MPG)
Rearrange Child/Spouse Order - PAF (MPG)
Handling Adoptions (MPG)

Backing Up Data

Downloading

PAF 4.0 Directions for Downloading (DM)
Setting Your Preferences - PAF 4.0x (MPG)

GEDCOM

Creating a GEDCOM file (MPG)

General Help

PAF - Getting Help Through Mail Lists (MPG)
Finding Ancestors on the Net from Inside PAF 4.0 (MPG)
Caution RE: Database Location (MPG)

Multiple Languages

Removing Multiple Language Support (PUG)

Matching/Merging

Match/Merge Duplicates  (MPG)

Notes

How to Manage Your Notes (PUG)

Printing

PAF - Printing a Book  (MPG)

Reports