Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!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 21:36:54 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <52506A56.1010908@numericable.fr> References: <1la08mh.2bqhmn7c59umN%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 2JV/HVTNwO0l6u2byZ2ZcgZ48vHcTP991gAFZQB4VGir5Togff Cancel-Lock: sha1:WMp6aTV5kh2GRUpZtZB4XhAVQSI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:18374 On 01/10/13 13:42, Lewis wrote: > In message > Jim Jaeger wrote: >> In article <1la08mh.2bqhmn7c59umN%pfj@doesn't.exist.com>, >> pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) wrote: >>> Can anyone recommend a program for genealogy that will work on the Mac >>> and to which I can import my current infromation? >>> >> My wife has been researching our families for twenty-five years. She >> started using Reunion at version 3 in 1993. (The leatherette-bound >> user manual is still in the bookcase.) > > I used to have that manual myself. But it's been years since I used it > (I've never even seen their non-Carbon OS X version). I do recall it was > impossible for me to enter step-parents back then, or step-children, or > adoptions. > > I also used the LDS software back then (and got a lot of information > from then on a branch of my family I had no information on). > > 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.