Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is free-of-cost genealogy software

Genealogy software

Genealogy software is computer software used to record, organize, and publish genealogical data. At a minimum, genealogy software collects the date and place of an individual's birth, marriage, and death, and stores the relationships of individuals to their parents, spouses, and children...

 provided by FamilySearch

FamilySearch

FamilySearch is a genealogy organization established and run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch consists of a collection of records, resources, and services designed to help people learn more about their family...

, a website operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Personal Ancestral File allows users to enter names, dates, citations and source information into a database, and then to sort and search the genealogical data, print forms and charts, and share files with others in GEDCOM

GEDCOM

GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a proprietary and open de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software...

 format. PAF can also link images and other media files to individual records, and handles Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

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Several versions of Personal Ancestral File for Windows have been released by FamilySearch

FamilySearch

FamilySearch is a genealogy organization established and run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch consists of a collection of records, resources, and services designed to help people learn more about their family...

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