Re: geneology

2014-03-08 Thread Juliet Kitson
Which ever way I go, I still think it is a lot of work. Anyway thanks Cheers Juliet On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.auwrote: In principle you can achieve the synching as Tim points out by saving/exporting as a .ged file which can be opened by both apps. I

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2014-03-07 Thread Juliet Kitson
G'day All Has anybody used family tree maker for Mac and if so where to get it from and does it work well. Regards Juliet -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml

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2014-03-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Juliet, The only genealogy software I have ever used over the years is all versions of 'Reunion' and found it excellent, but it is expensive. 'Family Tree Maker' is much cheaper and if you read these latest reviews, it is highly rated and recommended for Macs.

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2014-03-07 Thread Severin Crisp
I am a long time user of Reunion and was seduced into trying FamilyTree Maker. Though it has some good features I am now back with Reunion which I find is superior and more user friendly (to me anyway!). Someone starting from scratch may have a different take on these two. My sixpenn’orth

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2014-03-07 Thread Tim Law
Juliet, It's a hard choice. The ability for Family Tree Maker to sync with your Ancestry account online is a significant advantage to me. I can use the power of the Ancestry.com.au searches and ability to add people to my tree, then sync it to my desktop app, Family Tree Maker. You have to

Re: geneology

2014-03-07 Thread Severin Crisp
In principle you can achieve the synching as Tim points out by saving/exporting as a .ged file which can be opened by both apps. I have not tried to see if anything gets missed. Severin Crisp On 8 Mar 2014, at 2:03 pm, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Juliet, It's a hard choice.