Comparison to PAF 3.0

Compare how PAF's Version 3.0 and A&D's Version 1.62 satisfy basic genealogical needs . . .

Will this product let you: PAF
3.0
A&D
1.62
  Easily enter birth, death, and burial data on individuals? Yes Yes
  Enter one or more aliases (i.e., multiple names) for an individual? No Yes
  Enter and identify Julian/Old-Style, Jewish/Hebrew, or French Republican dates? No Yes
  Enter in three keystrokes or less, and statistically report on, any of the following:
  -  the complete names of countries, states, and provinces?
  -  occupations, races, religions and churches, and military services?
  -  causes of death and other medical conditions?
 
No
No
No
 
Yes
Yes
Yes
  Enter and identify non-marriage relationships (e.g., engagements, common-law, and other life-style relationships)? No Yes
  Enter and identify foster children? No Yes
  Enter unknown, unnamed, and stillborn children—without having to create individual records? No Yes
  Enter the ending date of a marriage and record that it ended due to an annulment, death, disappearance, estrangement, or separation? No Yes
  Optionally enter:
  -  LDS (Mormon) temple ordinance events?
  -  Catholic, Jewish, or Protestant events and related data?
 
Yes
No
 
Yes
Yes
  Enter a household (including its address, residents, telephones, and sources) for a historical or current residence or business—and easily link it to all individuals and relationships to which it applies? No Yes
  Quickly and easily browse, record-by-record, through all individuals, relationships, and sources in a database? No Yes
  See at a glance, while browsing, exactly how many sources are linked to each individual and relationship record and the type of each of those sources? No Yes
  Presents you with consistent and uncluttered screens? No Yes
  Print complete detailed listings of each source record in a database? No Yes
  Print statistical summaries of the types of sources and evidence in a database? No Yes
  Print source usage and management reports that identify all:
  -  individuals and marriages linked to each source?
  -  source types present and absent for each individual and relationship?

No
No

Yes
Yes
  See who created or last updated a major record? No Yes
  Limit update and deletion capability to certain users? No Yes
  Import or export GEDCOM data? Yes Yes
  Prepare Ancestral File and LDS Temple submissions? Yes No*

* A planned future capability of A&D.
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