Mary all I can say is good luck. I love my Mac but have not found a program that I like for it. I was used to FTM on my PC and finally ended up just getting an inexpensive PC and using it for my genealogy.;)
Edna Lemos Epps [email protected] Joshua 10:14 "And there was no day like that before it or after it where the Lord listened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel" On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:41 AM, MaryAnn Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > What about software for Macs. I use Reunion but don't really like it that > much. It seems clunky to me and looks dated. I also bought FTM and MacTree > but haven't made the switch to one of these yet. I'm leaning towards MacTree > because navigation seems more intuitive. Any opinions from Mac users? > > MaryAnn Santos > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > GGervais, > > You'll get people telling you that the best program is the one they are > using. That's not going to help you. If you want certain things in a > program and can tell us, that may steer you towards one program or the other. > > The 4 most popular in the PC market are: > Family Tree Maker (FTM), Legacy, RootsMagic, and The Master Genealogist. > > You already know about FTM. > > Legacy has their Standard Edition (free) and their Deluxe (pay). So download > Legacy and play around with it: www.legacyfamilytree.com The Deluxe has > about 100 extra bells and whistles. > > RootsMagic also has a free editions. They call it their Essentials. > Download that and play around with it too: www.rootsmagic.com/essentials I > don't know how many extra bells and whistles their paid version has. > > The Master Genealogist (TMG) allows you to explore their full program for 30 > days free (and then it locks you out). www.whollygenes.com Download that and > play around with it (but make sure you have close to a month to peruse it. > Trying to figure that program out 2 days before it expires is like doing a > 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle in 1 hour). > > I go over all 4 programs in a lecture in Salt Lake. Your local genealogy > society may have speakers. Request that they find a speaker that can lecture > on genealogy software. > > General overview of the 3 you haven't tried: > RootsMagic probably has the smallest learning curve. However, I've read that > some people find that they outgrow that program rather easily. However, > there's a RM User Group at one of my local genealogy societies, and there are > a couple of engineers in there. So it's whatever makes you happy. > > Legacy has a pleasing user interface and a smaller learning curve. It can be > a fairly powerful program, too. It's Source Writer is absolutely fantastic. > No other program has a source feature like that. I'd have to look up the > cons for Legacy. > > TMG is the most powerful program out there. They have a bit of a learning > curve, but they have tried to do things to make it easier (they have a > beginner's mode vs. an advanced mode). Their filtering feature is awesome > (you have to practice learning how to use it, though). And it's just about > completely customizable too. So you don't like the user interface out of the > box, you can change it. > > When I bought a genealogy program in the mid-90s (I think this was back in > the Windows 3.1 days), I had 2 criteria. 1) It had to have a character field > long enough to take a city name the length of Ribeira das Tainhas or Vila > Franca do Campo. 2) It had to take diacritics. Those accented letters. I > wanted the names to be written properly. I wanted José de Mello, not Jose de > Mello. Only 1 program on the market could do that at that time. Now, it's a > moot point. They can all do that. > > So if you have any specific concerns for a genealogy program, ask away. Or > try all 3 and then ask away. But make fake family and marry yourself to > yourself, mess up on dates and make someone born after they died, make > someone have a baby out of wedlock, etc. See how each program handles or > display these things. > > Also, depending on where you live, see if there is User Group in your area > (all the web sites above have a User Groups section where you can check to > see if there is one in your area). We get people dropping in to our group > wanting to see what the program is like before they purchase it. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, > Achada > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. 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