Sandy replied to my posting as follows:
> Forgive me for butting in here but In My Personal Opinion LEGACY makes a
> really good pedigree chart. I came to LEGACY starting with my first
family
> tree program PAF somehow I ended up with the popular FTM which I WAS
> addicted to and when I discovered LEGACY, I used it at first for what I
> believe is the most wonderful merging abilities so of course I HAD to
> joinTHIS
I completely agree with you Sandy, that LEGACY makes a great
pedigree chart. However, it does NOT make what FTM calls an Ancestor
Tree in it's standard format. They now make a pedigree chart similar
to Legacy's though it's called Ancestor Tree - Standard Pedigree Tree.
At least that's how it works on V10. I don't have the latest version of
FTM. Another user pointed out that this other program, "Ages!"
which appears to be the creation of a single German programmer,
a Mr. Daub, has the ability to make Descendant charts.
I am not trying to be rude, but honestly, it really bothers me that
Legacy in the year 2004 does not offer its users, except via various
add-ons, a featuer that is so very basic, that whenever anyone, such
as Mr. Daub, writes a basic gen program (Ages! does not have nearly
half the features that Legacy has from what I can tell of it's pdf
documentation) they include a way to create these kinds of graphic
"trees", such as FTM's Ancestor Tree and Descendant Tree.
FTM is Family Tree MAKER after all, and it makes all kinds of
trees, some of which I'm not terribly interested in. So I don't expect
Legacy to offer every single feature of every other gen program, but
Descendant Trees (or drop-line charts as some prefer to call them)
are a basic part of doing genealogy IMO, and from the way others
choose to include them in their gen programs, it seems I'm not alone.
At the end of the day the fact remains that in 1998 when I first started
using FTM 3.4 I was able to make these kinds of trees print out on
banner paper running through a Panasonic dot-matrix printer, that
I still use to this day! Legacy 5.0 deluxe edition cannot do that at all
-- all these years later.
Having written all that, I still recommend Legacy to others. It remains
my primary gen program. It handles sources and repositories in ways
that FTM has not even a clue about! Legacy handles names much
better than FTM. It makes gen reports that are much more flexible
than other programs, though other programs offer more types I think.
The issue I have is that Legacy would be my ONLY gen program
if it made good trees of arbitrary length on banner paper.
jr
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