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... the desire is to search a specific place (location) for all individuals with a specific name and additional criteria related to those individuals. I guess you missed my original premise.:) I know exactly where I wish to search. The drawback is that there is no tool with which to do so with the ...

What you are missing is that the results pages are not for people named "McGuire" living just in Cook Co., Illinois . The results page contains anyone and everyone named McGuire "maybe" having some association to Cook Co., Illinois. For some census records, this works for the res...

Good thoughts, but in this situation the settings are controlled by Church Headquarters and the choice of program is mandated. It's really not an option for anyone at the Stake level. I agree, but there must be a way to have ideas filter upwards other than just through prayers.:) Regards, T. McGuire

One must consider that XML probably will never have a relationship to PAF. XML is really something to be considered in light of web development and usage. Since GEDCOM has always been a text (card) based system of relating records, it will be interesting to see who implements GEDCOM 6.0 and why. It ...

I don't remember any date field being mandatory but there were some recent changes. The date field is not relevant. It is the fact that you cannot search by location for an individual. Under the present scheme, you search for the individual and the individual is found solely by values associated to...

Thank you. Perhaps this should be an area of investigation: 1. Can the present firewall program be controlled? 2. Should the firewall program be changed to the Free ZoneAlarm? From my own experience, I am tired of programs (including Microsoft products) that "need" to access the internet. ...

Has anyone made use of PAF as a portable application, i.e. on a USB Drive (aka thumb drive, flash drive, stick drive)?

If so, please relate your experiences.

Regards,
T. McGuire

Ladies and Gentlemen: With the Pilot / Labs website, the search tool is inadequate. There is very little control for limiting the location. As a result, a great deal of time can be wasted trying to find a record that can be readily or more easily found on Ancestry.com or HeritageQuest. Let me explai...

I cannot use Adobe Reader 8.1.x on our system because it tries to verify the license agreement online, and, of course, there is no live connection outside of the mls connection. I am not sure which Firewall program you are using, so I will speak about the program that I use: ZoneAlarm (Free Version...