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Re: Genealogy program for Mac

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On 05/10/2013 20:36, Francois wrote:
> On 01/10/13 13:42, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <jimjaeger-B118B3.14114430092013@news.eternal-september.org>
>>    Jim Jaeger <jimjaeger@verizon.net> 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.

The trouble with GEDCOM is that is not a standard that has any tests to 
check compliance.  So each genealogy program maker interprets what LDS 
(the writers of the GEDCOM 5.5 standard) wrote all those years ago. 
These interpretations are not all the same so you can (will, even) have 
troubles passing data from one program to another.

The best advice is not to create any new data fields in your source 
program; they will inevitably cause problems much as they will make 
better data structures for your needs.  Further, pictures and sound 
added to your source program is also likely to cause problems.  Keep it 
all simple.

And I use Reunion, the best, since 1994, the continual developments have 
made it better and better.  The support is good, too.

-- 
Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim@powys.org
              for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

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Genealogy program for Mac pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) - 2013-09-30 09:53 +0100
  Re: Genealogy program for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-09-30 10:38 +0000
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-09-30 14:56 -0700
  Re: Genealogy program for Mac Bo Davis <bodavis972@gmail.com> - 2013-09-30 05:46 -0500
  Re: Genealogy program for Mac Justan Oldfart <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-09-30 07:59 -0500
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-09-30 09:59 -0700
      Re: Genealogy program for Mac Gerry <xyz@abc.com> - 2013-09-30 10:08 -0700
        Re: Genealogy program for Mac Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2013-10-05 21:40 +0200
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2013-09-30 20:31 +0100
  Re: Genealogy program for Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2013-09-30 14:36 -0400
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2013-09-30 14:50 -0400
      Re: Genealogy program for Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2013-09-30 15:02 -0400
  Re: Genealogy program for Mac Jim Jaeger <jimjaeger@verizon.net> - 2013-09-30 14:11 -0700
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-01 11:42 +0000
      Re: Genealogy program for Mac Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2013-10-05 21:36 +0200
        Re: Genealogy program for Mac Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> - 2013-10-06 13:51 +0100
  Re: Genealogy program for Mac pfj@doesn't.exist.com (Peter James) - 2013-10-01 07:41 +0100
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2013-10-05 21:31 +0200
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2013-10-05 21:33 +0200
    Re: Genealogy program for Mac Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2013-10-05 21:42 +0200
      Re: Genealogy program for Mac John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2013-10-12 07:34 -0700

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