Thanks Cheri! I'm going to take a swing at Legacy and see how it goes
On Monday, 16 December 2019 13:23:02 UTC-5, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Hi Brian M, > > You are talking about what us genealogists call genealogy software. You > will never get a consensus on the "strongest" no matter where you are > searching. It's like trying to poll people for the "best" car. We pick > whatever car suits us and our budgets best. So it is with genealogy > software. > > Currently, there are 2 groups of genealogy software out there. One is the > fully-featured genealogy software programs. This is a computer program that > lives on your computer. The most popular ones on the market today are > Family Tree Maker (https://www.mackiev.com/ftm/), Legacy Family Tree ( > www.legacyfamilytree.com), and RootsMagic (www.rootsmagic.com). Legacy's > "Standard Edition" is free. Download it and give it a try. RootsMagic's > Essentials is also free. Download that and give it a try. Family Tree Maker > doesn't have a free trial version. > > The other group of genealogy software (if you want to call it that) is the > cloud based systems. They definitely aren't fully featured like the ones I > listed above. They are more of a display of your genealogy work. I believe > you need a monthly subscription if you are going to be working on your tree > for most of them. The most popular ones out there are Ancestry.com, > MyHeritage, and Geni.com. These online versions definitely have limitations. > > Some of the fully-featured genealogy software programs sync with My > Heritage. I don't know which one(s). You can always create a Gedcom on any > genealogy software and override your tree on My Heritage. My suggestion to > you would be to download Legacy and RootsMagic and play around with them. > Enter yourself, parents, and grandparents. Make a "mistake" and enter a > death date BEFORE the birth date to see how it handles it. Try thinking of > other "mistakes" that you typically make and see how the software handles > it. Then go with the software that grabs you. That's the software that is > for you. All have Gedcom format, so your work can be shared with others. > Right now, I believe Legacy and RootsMagic may be having a sale for the > holidays. > > If you want to know, my criteria for a genealogy program was if it > accepted diacritics (accented letters) and could take a place field that > was 19 or 20 characters long. This was in the mid-90s, when things were > more limited. Both are a non-issue now. My current criteria would be able > to search for the correct Maria de Jesus or Manuel Silva and to be able to > filter the program for groups of people. So I'd need an index that I could > customize so I could see all my Maria de Jesuses with various details > (birth and death dates, parents, and spouse are my favorite). And a > customizable filter. And UTF-8, which my old program didn't have. Your > criteria may be different. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:53 AM Brian Margarit <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> I'm curious as to what platform everyone here prefers, or which is >> considered the strongest (especially for the Acores). >> >> I currently use MyHeritage, and I'm really happy with it. I'll be >> keeping the account no matter what. But does anyone have any input on an >> alternative or maybe a supplemental platform? I have Ancestry years ago >> and haven't touched it since. I've used Geneall a bit, but it didn't seem >> to be worth the trouble. >> >> Any insights are greatly appreciated. >> >> Brian >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/fbf0929e-91ec-48fa-b159-83971c29f5b7%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/fbf0929e-91ec-48fa-b159-83971c29f5b7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/a239f8eb-9aa5-4c79-b513-93f2c57e531c%40googlegroups.com.
