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 be careful to not import someone else's mistakes obviously, but this two way syncing is useful. It means I can load my data to the internet for others to see and gain from. AFAIK, Reunion doesn't provide this type of connectivity. Is Reunion a nicer programme to use? Yes I think it is. Be aware Once you start using another app for family tree data, you've got to either duplicate your data entry, or have a way of exporting the data files from one app into the other to keep them in sync = fiddly complexity. It would be nice if we could use, lets say the same source file and store it in Dropbox and access that data via whichever app took our fancy at any particular time. I don't think it's that easy tho. Tim On 8 Mar 2014, at 1:21 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > 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 > Severin Crisp > > > On 8 Mar 2014, at 12:21 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> <http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-genealogy-software/> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >> >> >>> On 8 Mar 2014, at 11:46 am, Juliet Kitson <billand...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > ____________________________________________________ > > Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia > ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au > ____________________________________________________ > > > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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