Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Powys-Lybbe Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Genealogy program for Mac Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 13:51:05 +0100 Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <1la08mh.2bqhmn7c59umN%pfj@doesn't.exist.com> <52506A56.1010908@numericable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4eSUlrIbbwDjjlRJKY2gAgpLDT5OYAqezz1+AtB5xPxK2C87ji Cancel-Lock: sha1:2RuGY5IHxhmMflDP3GQXkL3vp0g= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <52506A56.1010908@numericable.fr> Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:18378 On 05/10/2013 20:36, Francois wrote: > 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. 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/