SHERRY & JOAN
I did not know about 'Families' until reading about it in this discussion. I just finished reviewing the video by the Families developer and it looks like nice software for someone who wants to make changes 'on the fly' using their mobile device and is comfortable doing so. But that is not for me. I need all the size of a full keyboard and all the screen real estate of my 27-inch iMac. Heck, I'm having a hard time typing on this laptop while we are away from home; I've tried using my iPad tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard and it feels so constraining. Besides, I am picky, picky, picky about version control or configuration management or whatever you like to call it. My Legacy database is in Dropbox. I am the primary keyboardist from my Mac via Parallels; my wife sometimes (not as often as I would like … she is a terrific typist) inputs data on her Windows desktop and we each may make changes using the Windows laptop. But we take turns modifying the SAME database; we never have two versions of the Legacy database. I know there is software to resolve this two version situation but I would rather simply AVOID having two versions of my database. As I said … picky … My iPad genealogy viewer is called FamViewer. I added it to my iPad 2 (and iPhone 4S) when I populated it with apps two or three years ago. It probably has updated versions and there may be others around with more features but inertia has kept me from checking the latest stuff. I'll do that when I upgrade my mobile devices. This approach may not use all the power of modern software but it works for me. DICK FOLKERTH Dallas ________________________________ From: Joan Henshaw <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 3:16 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Using Families App to Share Information with Family F. Richard Folkerth Which iOS app(s) are you using on your iPad and iPhone? Thanks, Joan ________________________________ Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Using Families App to Share Information with Family From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:31:38 -0600 To: [email protected] GEORGE I run Legacy on my iMac using Parallels ... to be compatible with Legacy on my wife's Windows machine. From time to time I dump everything to a GEDCOM so I can put it on my iPad & iPhone in read-only format. There are many low cost iOS apps that will accept a GEDCOM and display the results. Things do not stay 'in sync' of course but my mobile devices are sufficiently accurate for me to haul to the library or the courthouse ... or to pass around when the family gathers. As the saying goes, it works for me! DICK FOLKERTH Dallas Sent from my iPad On Dec 29, 2014, at 10:49 AM, George Kindel <[email protected]> wrote: I have recently shifted to Legacy and would like to share my research with my daughters and their families. They use IPads and Macs so the Legacy software isn't a good fit, but I see that maybe the Families App for IPad and IPhone my work. > >From what I read, I can synch my data on my PC with my IPhone through the >Families Ap. Could my children also use the App on their IPads and have my >data synch with theirs? > >Has anyone tried this? 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