Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is venerable, fairly complete, free genealogy application from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As such, it is a popular choice as a family history research software on the PC. In this video I show you step-by-step how to install PAF 5.2. Please download the file in your language of choice then follow along with this video screencast
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Cindy says
do you have pafsetup.exe?
My computer went down and I want to install it. As you know it is not available online…
thanks, Cindy
Ben Sayer says
Hi Cindy, no, soryy, I don’t.
Jeanne says
What is a safe site to download PAF?
Bill says
I have used PAF for 20+ years, but I have a new laptop with Windows 11. Your tutorial doesn’t seem to be duplicated here. What’s my problem?
anthony wooldridge says
search for “PAF5EnglishSetup.exe” 9856kb works ok for me on Windows 10 use compatibility settings.
I have a copy if you cannot find it. Always use a virus checker before running.
june says
I had Personal Ancestry File 2.2 but somehow I have lost the disk and I changed computers qhile back. I now can’t get my files and I’d hate to start all over again. Can I download 5.2 and be able to use it to recover my files?
Ben Sayer says
According to Family Search: “On July 15, 2013, PAF was retired and is no longer available for download or support.”
John says
try install and see what happens, at this point you have nothing to loose
Robert Edward E Decker says
I have the Personal Ancestral File 5.0, my computer has windows 11, your is not loading completely
Richard says
If you want to print out the .paf to charts there are two programs that you can still purchase: first is Ancestral Quest from incline software and second is Rootmagic. I have tried it yet but i wanted other to know about it.