On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 10:19:10 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:20:12 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber ><bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:08:46 -0600, Charlie Hoffpauir <invalid@invalid.com> >>declaimed the following:
Might be worthwhile now,. I tried it many years ago (BRM) while I was >>>still using a combination of FTM and FO. I simply thought it >>>"uncomfortable". If someone or something rates it highly now, it must >>>have improved. For years, many people sweared by TMG. I tried it, and >>>didn't think it was worth the effort, primarily because it did
everything sloooowly.
Don't know about "sloooowly", but TMG (and what I preferred -- before it >>was bought by the company that at the time owned FTM, and then killed the >>program that needed major rewrite for 32-bit Windows in favor of the bottom >>rung program -- Ultimate Family Tree: at the time, UFT and TMG were in >>contention for the top-rated program) is an /event based/ program. >>"Families" are artifacts in event-based genealogy programs. All the others >>I've been exposed to are "family based" -- everything derives from a family >>(husband/wife and children; you can not have a lone parent with children >>without creating some sort of "family" entry, even if the spouse is >>unknown).
My one gripe with TMG is the report writer... UFT could create a journal >>for all end-line ancestors, and could reliably handle "continuation" >>through marriages in both directions. TMG's "avoid duplicates" / "follow >>surname" only works in the forward direction {It has been some time, so the >>options may be named differently: if MrB married MsA, the "follow surname" >>says children will be under the chapter for MrB, but the "avoid duplicates" >>for MrB assumes the children were details under MsA}
I just did a search for genealogy programs. I was actually trying to
remember all the programs I'd tried (couldn't remember Reunion), and
found this site which evaluates current programs. >https://www.smarterhobby.com/genealogy/best-genealogy-software/#tab-con-32 >Note that they don't pick "the best". They list various strengths and >weaknesses. What best for me isn't best for someone else.
When I was still using DOS-based PAF I actually thought that program
was really the best piece of software I'd ever seen, and I've been
using computers since the 60's.
I wanted to like TMG - the owner was a well known bridge player and I
wanted my partner and me to play some cut-throat social bridge with
him. But TMG was too slow and too sophisticated for what I wanted at
the time.
I wanted to try Reunion but it disappeared about the time I was ready.
I'm not looking for fancy printouts - almost any descendant report
will do. I want a program that will tell me which sources or major
data is missing so I can dot all the i's and cross the t's. RootsMagic
does that better IMO. But I really dislike the left to right
navigation in the family mode - Legacy up and down is far superior
IMO.
Family Historian 6 is supposedly much improved - and usually higher
rated than RootsMagic which is a surprise. RM gets a high rating for portability which I don't need. I have a desktop ASUS laptop and a
Surace Pro 6 both with i7 chips.
I'm 91 now and too much sophistication is beginning to be a bother.
I'm supposed to have dementia but I keep forgetting. :)
Thanks to everyone for responses.
Hugh
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