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This URL is:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ WHAT IS CPAFUG
Capital PAF Users' Group, Inc. is a non-profit, genealogical, scientific corporation, incorporated in the State of Maryland in 1986.
Purpose
Services
Membership
Grants
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To provide an environment in which persons with common interests may meet to study and exchange ideas concerning the use of personal computers for genealogical purposes. This includes the study of any of the genealogy programs available, including Personal Ancestral File/PAF® published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Study is also provided for programs that assist in genealogical computing, such as, word processors, graphic programs, Internet browsers, e-mail, etc.
CPAFUG has monthly meetings, on the third Saturday of each month, January through November, at 2 p.m. At 1 p.m. there is a PAF (Windows) Class for Beginners, a Q&A session for PAF® and other topics, and a TMG session (The Master Genealogist®). There is also a MAC® SIG which meets at 1 p.m., occasionally, as announced. At 2 p.m., there is a short business meeting followed by a presentation on a general topic that is useful to users of any genealogy program. DOS®, Windows®, and Macintosh® users can all benefit from these presentations.
The December meeting is held the second Saturday at 1 p.m. and is a Show'n'Tell format. There are no classes or SIGs this month.
The group maintains a large library of shareware and/or freeware software for genealogical applications. Over 1600 files are available for MAC-OS or DOS to supplement your PAF 2.x. Contact our Disc Librarian.
There is a "Buddy list" of current, experienced members upon whom other members may call for assistance. We assisted with data-entry for the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
There is a quarterly newsletter, called ABT-PAF, which is mailed to members. [Currently in need of an editor.]
We have a RESTRICTED mailing list for our members to discuss and exchange ideas, comments, information, and generally support one another's genealogical and genealogical computing efforts. If you are a CPAFUG member, you may subscribe by sending a message saying SUBSCRIBE. Please turn off HTML and .sig files. Once your membership has been confirmed, you will receive an automated reply.
In addition, we support the biennial genealogy seminar offered by the Washington DC Temple Family History Center in cooperation with the Montgomery County (MD) Historical Society and the Prince Georges County (MD) Historical Society. The most recent seminar offered these choices. On the "off" years for this seminar, we offer a one-day workshop on using PAF.
Dues are US $12, domestic, payable March 1 of each year. Benefits include the newsletter, the mailing list, mailed meeting notices, and griping rights. International dues are $27, payable in US$. Print and complete our form and mail with your check to PO Box 427, Kensington MD 20895-0427
In 2002, CPAFUG instituted a Grants program to provide modest funding
for projects specifically benefitting the family history and genealogy
aims of the Metropolitan Washington DC area.
Download the application in PDF format.
Questions?
See our References File first.e-mail to: CPAFUG President
PAF is an acronym for Personal Ancestral File®, a computer-genealogy lineage-linked database program produced, disseminated, and supported by the LDS Church.
It is currently available as a DOS®, WIN95®, or MAC® program. The WIN98 version and the manual (.PDF format) are available for download from www.familysearch.org under *Order Products*
MORE about PAF ...
DOS versions will hold up to 65,000 individuals; a single individual may marry as many as 30 times and have as many as 30 children per marriage. WIN95 will hold an "unlimited" number of individuals.PAF produces from your data a wide variety of charts, forms, and reports. PAF 5.x for Windows 95 and higher supports digitized pictures, video and audio clips, interactive scrapbooks and slide shows, and web pages.
PAF UTILITIES ...
There are hundreds of utility programs for the DOS version which produce more and different charts, manipulate the data, organize the data, and generally help you out. A majority of these are available only in shareware; some also have later editions out commercially. Many are available from our Disc Librarian. NOTE: none of these 3rd party utilities will work with PAF 3.0 or later versions. The data structure changed completely.
Finding Our Meeting
We meet in the Washington DC Stake Center in Kensington, MD.The address is 10000 Stoneybrook Drive, and it is next door to the Mormon Temple.Take I-495 to Connecticut Avenue NORTH. Immediately get into the rightmost lane of Connecticut Avenue; at the light just barely outside the Beltway, turn RIGHT onto Beach Drive. Follow Beach until it (eventually) dead-ends at Stoneybrook. Turn LEFT. Go over three speed bumps, and turn into the driveway immediately to the left after the third one. Entrance to the meeting is through the door midway down the brick building. Park in any available slot.If BEACH DRIVE is closed for some reason (such as spring flooding), return to Connecticut Avenue and turn NORTH. Watch for HOWARD Avenue in downtown Kensington. Turn right onto Howard; and follow it to the first stop sign; bear left past the post office to next stop sign, bear right to next stop sign, and turn LEFT. At dead-end (Stoneybrook) turn right.
If you come in from the Wheaton or Aspen Hill areas,Connecticut or University SOUTH to Howard Avenue (largish sign says Antique Row and there's a Safeway); turn left onto Howard, and follow it to the first stop sign; bear left past the post office to next stop sign, bear right to next stop sign, and turn LEFT. At dead-end (Stoneybrook) turn right.
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Genealogically speaking ...
Book Stores
Some of the genealogy booksellers in the local DC area are: Hearthstone Bookshop in Alexandria, VA; Willowbend/Family Line, in Westminster, MD; NGS in Arlington, VA; the Borders branches in MD and VA; and This Is The Place, in Kensington, MD. We have a list of some booksellers our members have used. While we can make no warranties, express or implied, you're welcometo look at the list.
IDENTITY THEFT is becoming a serious problem. Crooks can get enough information from your family data on the Internet, to enable them to steal your identity and thereby access your bank accounts, charge debts to accounts they create in your name, as well as ruin your credit! As it is very easy to post family files on the Internet, people are posting personal information about family members, which is readily accessible to crooks.
There are now a number of programs that will create an HTML file from your genealogical database. Other people have created these files from paper sources.PLEASE take some time to consider the following points
- Not everyone who uses the Internet and/or the genealogy sites is totally trustworthy (i.e., there may be crook or two around).
- Many financial institutions use your date of birth and your mother's maiden name as security codes.
- If you've got a name and a birthdate, you can obtain birth certificates using that name (i.e., anyone who knows your birthdate and place of birth can write in, using your name and their own address, and get a copy of the birth certificate). With that certificate an entire identity can be built.
It is, therefore, recommended that such personal information not be made public on anyone born after the 1900 census.Better yet, don't even _share_ data about anyone born after 1890/1900. Don't trust the receiver to abide by your request not to publish such data on the Internet or elsewhere. It would be too easy for them to forget, or pass on to a third party who could post or publish it.
Heritage Groups
The American Revolution
DAR Membership Information.
SAR Membership Information.
The War Between the States
UDC Membership Information
SCV Information
- UDC = United Daughters of the Confederacy
- DUV = Daughters of Union Veterans
- SUV = Sons of Union Veterans
- SCV = Sons of Confederate Veterans
Others
The Cresap Society
The US GenWeb Project
The Shanholtzer Reunion recurs the fourth Saturday in June each year.
Ask the organizer for more details.
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Legalities
ALL Registered trademarks, even those not so marked on this page, are the property of their respective owners. Specifically:Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Macintosh Laboratory, Inc., licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. Mac OS is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. The Master Genealogist is a trademark product of Wholly Genes, Inc. PC-DOS is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. MS-DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. GW-DOS is a registered trademark of George Washington University. Any other registered trademark is the property of the registered owner, and no contrary claim is expressed, implied, or intended by our references to it.
CPAFUG President
Curator: Cheryl Singhal© 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 CPAFUG Updated Feb 2002