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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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
Hi Cindy, no, soryy, I don’t.
What is a safe site to download PAF?
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?
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.
I am in dire need of Paf5. Just purchased a new desktop computer and as I transfer my .ged and paf files to the new computer no Program is coming up, I thought I had everything in a file labed Genealogy….not the program…can you help me?
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?
According to Family Search: “On July 15, 2013, PAF was retired and is no longer available for download or support.”
can you send me a copy of Paf 5……have many cd’s computer crashed having trouble openning files
need paf 5 to open some old back up disks
try install and see what happens, at this point you have nothing to loose
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I found that I had to go through PAF V 4 to read the V2.2 files then make a .paf file that could be read in by V5.
I have the Personal Ancestral File 5.0, my computer has windows 11, your is not loading completely
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.