Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Francois Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Genealogy program for Mac Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 21:33:14 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5250697A.2000301@numericable.fr> References: <1la08mh.2bqhmn7c59umN%pfj@doesn't.exist.com> <1la1wee.m4dcotrfdlgN%pfj@doesn't.exist.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vuz6R4oTFUnNciNWBwza5wmVt1yifmugfysGX3Q5kAZ2kbn47L Cancel-Lock: sha1:DqRm3pV+Z3rKhnRCAOE8WncAbq8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <1la1wee.m4dcotrfdlgN%pfj@doesn't.exist.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:18373 On 01/10/13 08:41, Peter James wrote: > Peter James wrote: > >> At present I'm doing my family research on a Windows computer using >> "Family Tree Maker". I find the latter to be clunky and not at all >> friendly to use. >> >> Can anyone recommend a program for genealogy that will work on the Mac >> and to which I can import my current infromation? >> >> Peter > Thank you for all of the advice. That will give me something to ponder > on. There's no rush as we're off on holiday next week, but I'll need to > do something for the start of my Family Research year which for me > starts in the late winter days of October. > > Peter > The best genealogy program, available for Mac and Windows is HEREDIS. It can, of course generate GEDCOM files. I started using it about one year ago, with some family papers , to begin with , and I am now far in the middle of the seventeen's century, thanks to the fact that in France, where I live (being French), most of the civil and parochial registers are available on line for free.