CRAIGS BUYING THE FAMILY A NEW PRINTER AS HIS BIRTHDAY GIFT

he had to ideas in mind...

1)- a midi card for his PC so he could play around with his music stuff.
(which, he hardley ever does at the moment anyway)
2)- a new wireless printer.

i asked why he wanted the MIDI card...answer: to be able to play around with his music stuff
(reminder, he never does now as it is, anyway)

so i was explaining to him, the benefits and deficits of each one.

our old printer died, a while back...just quite working one day, and he went online looked up a printer that was wireless, cheaper ink, and bottons on the front instead of on top
(dern cats would cut the thing off and on multiple times a day, even print stuff that was in a cue for a while waiting...irritated us to no end)

and i never really thought too much about not having that old printer in the family...until recently.

im just getting back into porting my family history into a program PAF (personal Ancestral File) and i have THOUSANDS of names to input. and i need a way to keep these names all organized.

most of them have been handed to me in PDF form via distant relatives through email.

and i REALLY need to get them inputted somewhere where i can have them available for me to put on a flash drive and kept close to me.

so, all of a sudden, im anxious for this printer.
so i can start this task i have to do..

my church offers that PAF program for free.
and we also have PEDIGREE CHARTS that you can fill out for free as well, to keep a history and record of your family history.

i always start with great fire within me, but fizzle out about 300 names in.
the task becomes boring and tedious to me.

im one of our churches FAMILY HISTORY consultants. which is a fancy way of saying:
"ill help you with YOUR family history, if you want me too"
and thats for anyone. member of my church or not.
if you need help...im your girl.

brother mcgarr (member of my church)has inputted something like 6K names into his PAF program on his PC.
id like to be able to say, i dd as much myself.

and id like to have all this data stored so when i do my web page idea for this family tree im a member of, it would be accessable and available to others to contact me with their info and id add that line as well..

im not getting any younger.
and i really do need to get this done.

getting craigs family history done as well, would be good.
he has a few names.
i can work with that. see what i can find.

getting the info from my 1st husband wont be so easy.
i feel its a necessity to have tho, to do the line for daniels sake.
just as much as it is to do craigs line for him AND daniel.

so, this printers a huge thing to me.
a way to keep organized and thorough.

MICHELLE