This program will help you create and manage your family tree with ease. Perhaps it'll pop up when I follow Pam's advice." Award winning professional genealogy program." When you go for the bells and whistles, can you add Census returns to people or would that make it too "heavy" on the documents?ĭoes anyone know of a family tree program (hate the spelling!!) which uses biometrics on photographs and tells you that the one of Uncle Joe as a war hero is actually his illegitimate half-brother whose existence you had suspected from another family photo but never really uncovered? I'm pretty sure I read about one once, but have never done anything more my second name must be Procrastination. I remember looking at Tribal Pages once, having had it recommended to me, but I'm afraid I got annoyed with their model and the mistakes in it. In that case, it might be worth you also taking a look at Tribal Pages. I was so enthusiastic at the beginning that I put everyone, his wife and their butcher, baker and candlestickmaker on, too :blush5: I wonder if your feelings on non-blood relations are part of what makes me want to prune my tree. I'll not go into my feelings on 'non-blood' relationships in family trees here. I love Legacy! Legacy sold me on its deluxe edition with the source writer, which has been an absolute boon. The layout thing is really important Ancestry have just changed theirs, - |bowdown| yes, I admit it, I've got a tree on there, but it is private - and I find the new system absolutely horrendous. That's very good advice, Pam, thank you (even if wasn't aimed at me). Or you might prefer the layout of one to another. I'm even scared of this GEDCOM idea I've been thinking of pruning my tree - all those extras back in the 1700s who might have died as babies or moved away, but whom I can't find out about, so it almost seems a good idea to rebuild. Far from being computer-savvy, I'm a total technophobe - and was bawled out by one of the kids for asking for computer help today. This is a question I've been asking myself for several years, Jocelyn, so I'm glad you've brought it up. I know I have to GEDCOM what I have but don't really understand how to do this so will be back when I have purchased a new programme to ask for more advice! I really am not very computer savvy when it comes to programmes and suchlike and want something relatively easy to keep my tree on and update as and when necessary. ![]() (I) need to buy a new family tree programme to enable me to do this. I must add - the source writer is not available with the free version of Legacy, but if you do invest, it's a godsend when your tree starts to expand. However, I'll grit my teeth and put up with it because the source writer is so good. This is, of course, bunkum - especially to anyone who understands the programming of databases. I e-mailed Legacy about this only a few days ago and their excuse was that they have updated their software to include non-blood relationships, and thus they cannot automatically calculate blood relationships when new people are entered. Legacy does not automatically calculate relationships, so if you add a newly discovered nxgreat grandpa, for instance, the programme doesn't automatically label him as such without returning to the 'set relationships' tool. But as with everything else there are pluses and minuses. I love Legacy! I was on Family Historian for quite a few years (I've never really liked the look and feel of FTM), but Legacy sold me on its deluxe edition with the source writer, which has been an absolute boon. (I can actually cover a total of 130 years between the baptism in 1836 of my 2x great grandfather and the death in 1966 of his grandson, my grandfather. You don't need to enter a whole family - say three or four generations of one line between possibly 1881 and 19-whatever, so you can see census results and how the tree pans out when you have no census details but have photos, war records, etc. I know it'll be a pain while you're doing it (easier if the free/trial version lets you import GEDCOMs), but I would advise trying out at least two or three program(me)s to see if you find one easier to use than another. You need to check with the program(me) seller's website for the latest version, as I notice that one site is quoting Family Historian v4.1.3 but I know that Family Historian is now on v.5, possibly 5.1. Wikipedia have a good entry, while other sites show what 'facilities' various program(me)s have. You might find it helpful to type 'family history computer programs comparison' into google, and then look at the results.
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