The info is very interesting, Cheri. I like that so many have been doing their genealogy for over 13 years, that really shows staying power especially doing Portuguese research!
Rosemarie [email protected] Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are the results of the little survey I ran last week. I'll probably > do another one in a couple of months. > > Many of you use more than one software. For most, it appeared that one was > on your computer and one was in the cloud. For the people who used just one > program only (that lives on your computer), I really hope you are backing > it up on a flash/USB drive or into the cloud on Dropbox or BackBlaze or > Carbonite or something. For those of you who only have it online, such as > Ancestry.com....well, you scare me. Yes Ancestry is a big company. They've > also done things with very little warning. And they have been bought a sold > a couple of times. Please have your genealogy somewhere else too. And for > the lone wolf who is using 5 genealogy programs....Aii yii yii! > > About 40% use FTM and 35% use Ancestry.com. Much of this is overlap as you > probably upload your tree every once and a while to Ancestry. About 16% are > on Legacy and 13% are on RootsMagic. This seems to follow the surveys that > other genealogy based entities run. Reunion (a Mac program) had 11%. The > rest were scattered, below 10%. > > [image: Inline image 1] > > What level of genealogy software user are you? 63% said you are > intermediate. 86% feel that they are intermediate, advanced, or above. Most > of you feel that you really know your way around your genealogy program. > > 77% know what diacritics are. Yay! (For those in the reading audience who > don't know, diacritics are the letters with the accents and markings on > them). > > However, only 26% of you use the diacritics in your genealogy program. > > As for the Character Sets (UTF-8, ANSI, ANSEL), 42% had an awareness of > them (it was mentioned a few days before the survey). 34% had no idea what > they were, and 24% knew what they were. It's a way the computer program > codes what you've typed in (letters, punctuation, diacritics). > > 54% of you have been going genealogy for more than 13 years. > > > [image: Inline image 2] > > For those who do more than one type of Portuguese genealogy (say you > research your Italian side or your American branches), the results were a > little different: > [image: Inline image 3] > > Thank you all for doing my survey. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
