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Reggie

FAMILY TREE MAKER

Legg inn av Reggie » 03 apr 2005 02:14:25

I am doing historical research on 75 Virginians that sailed to California
together in1849. I am finding a need to keep track of their family relations
so I checked out the Family Tree Maker website. It appears to be user
friendly from the ad. By the way, I have no genealogy experience. Before I
purchase the program can someone tell me:

1. Can Family Tree Maker be used to track the genealogy of more than one
family. Some of my Virginians are related and some are not. I would want to
keep track of the relations of more than one individual.

2.The ad states that the latest program searches Ancestry.Com. Is that a pay
site that will charge in order to get search results?

3. Are there other programs that are available that are comparable or better
at a reasonable price?

I like the idea of keeping the genealogy records on my computer instead of
paper pedigree charts etc.

I am sure these questions are very basic but I would appreciate any answers
I can get. If I get a user friendly program my wife wants me research her
family; that may be fun too.

Christopher Jahn

Re: FAMILY TREE MAKER

Legg inn av Christopher Jahn » 03 apr 2005 02:28:35

"Reggie" <reggiereesspamstopper@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:RrH3e.8869$V62.6945@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:

I am doing historical research on 75 Virginians that sailed to
California together in 1849. I am finding a need to keep track of their
family relations so I checked out the Family Tree Maker website. It
appears to be user friendly from the ad. By the way, I have no
genealogy experience. Before I purchase the program can someone tell
me:

1. Can Family Tree Maker be used to track the genealogy of more than
one family. Some of my Virginians are related and some are not. I
would want to keep track of the relations of more than one individual.


Depends on how you want to do it. In legacy, you could set up a family
file for each family, which is the way you SHOULD do it. But I have had
some "fragments" from time to time; families whose connections with mine
were disproven. They are in my master file, but not connected to any of
the proven family lines. But this is not a good practice, and I try to
keep those fragments in their own files. I can always import them later.

I can access them by searching the index.

2.The ad states that the latest program searches Ancestry.Com. Is that
a pay site that will charge in order to get search results?

It is a pay site, but I don't know how those search results are handled.

3. Are there other programs that are available that are comparable or
better at a reasonable price?


I downloaded Legacy for free. After a year, I decided to purchase it and
get the advanced features.



I like the idea of keeping the genealogy records on my computer
instead of paper pedigree charts etc.

It's a thousand time easier when you have corrections or updates.



I am sure these questions are very basic but I would appreciate any
answers I can get. If I get a user friendly program my wife wants me
research her family; that may be fun too.

I have found Legacy to be easy enough to use. The full version has some
neat functions such as Chronology View: it displays the individual's file
in an easy to read format.

It also generates any kind of report you could want, and will even
publish the file as a website, with options to choose from.

--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( http://home.comcast.net/~xjahn/Main.html

I'm a solipsist, I don't see why other people aren't that way...

Robert Melson

Re: FAMILY TREE MAKER

Legg inn av Robert Melson » 03 apr 2005 03:14:15

In article <RrH3e.8869$V62.6945@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
"Reggie" <reggiereesspamstopper@sbcglobal.net> writes:
I am doing historical research on 75 Virginians that sailed to California
together in1849. I am finding a need to keep track of their family relations
so I checked out the Family Tree Maker website. It appears to be user
friendly from the ad. By the way, I have no genealogy experience. Before I
purchase the program can someone tell me:

1. Can Family Tree Maker be used to track the genealogy of more than one
family. Some of my Virginians are related and some are not. I would want to
keep track of the relations of more than one individual.

2.The ad states that the latest program searches Ancestry.Com. Is that a pay
site that will charge in order to get search results?

3. Are there other programs that are available that are comparable or better
at a reasonable price?

I like the idea of keeping the genealogy records on my computer instead of
paper pedigree charts etc.

I am sure these questions are very basic but I would appreciate any answers
I can get. If I get a user friendly program my wife wants me research her
family; that may be fun too.



I can't resist: are these the 75 Virginians the Moslem devout are promised?

Swell Ol' Bob

--
Robert G. Melson | Nothing is more terrible than
Rio Grande MicroSolutions | ignorance in action.
El Paso, Texas | Goethe
melsonr(at)earthlink(dot)net

sylak

Re: FAMILY TREE MAKER

Legg inn av sylak » 03 apr 2005 03:21:45

">
1. Can Family Tree Maker be used to track the genealogy of more than one
family. Some of my Virginians are related and some are not. I would want
to keep track of the relations of more than one individual.

Yes, each "tree" is a seperate file.

2.The ad states that the latest program searches Ancestry.Com. Is that a
pay site that will charge in order to get search results?

Yes, ancesry.com is a pay service.

3. Are there other programs that are available that are comparable or
better at a reasonable price?

Yes but I have no experience with other programs. FTM has pretty much filled
my requirements although they are a little "pushy" about thier other
products.

I like the idea of keeping the genealogy records on my computer instead of
paper pedigree charts etc.

Just remember to keep a ackup of everthing.

I am sure these questions are very basic but I would appreciate any
answers I can get. If I get a user friendly program my wife wants me
research her family; that may be fun too.
Good luck.



Raymond

Reggie

Re: FAMILY TREE MAKER

Legg inn av Reggie » 03 apr 2005 16:15:44

No! The Muslems are promised a different bunch of Virginians. These sailed
on the ship Glenmore in April 1849 and arrived in San Francisco in October
1849. They were met at the dock by some Christians :)

They were members of the Madison Mining & Trading Co. which purchased the
ship, outfitted it and sailed it to the Golden Gate. Most went to the Mother
Lode mining region of the Sierra Nevada foothills to check out the mines.
They found it hard work consequently most left. The majority came from
aristocratic families and therefore did not need to dig for the gold. A few
settled here (California) but most returned to Virginia over the next 1-7
years. The ship had 5 doctors aboard and several attorneys.


rr


"Robert Melson" <melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net> wrote in message
news:XjI3e.1411$N13.552@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
In article <RrH3e.8869$V62.6945@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
"Reggie" <reggiereesspamstopper@sbcglobal.net> writes:
I am doing historical research on 75 Virginians that sailed to California
together in1849. I am finding a need to keep track of their family
relations
so I checked out the Family Tree Maker website. It appears to be user
friendly from the ad. By the way, I have no genealogy experience. Before
I
purchase the program can someone tell me:

1. Can Family Tree Maker be used to track the genealogy of more than one
family. Some of my Virginians are related and some are not. I would want
to
keep track of the relations of more than one individual.

2.The ad states that the latest program searches Ancestry.Com. Is that a
pay
site that will charge in order to get search results?

3. Are there other programs that are available that are comparable or
better
at a reasonable price?

I like the idea of keeping the genealogy records on my computer instead
of
paper pedigree charts etc.

I am sure these questions are very basic but I would appreciate any
answers
I can get. If I get a user friendly program my wife wants me research her
family; that may be fun too.



I can't resist: are these the 75 Virginians the Moslem devout are
promised?

Swell Ol' Bob

--
Robert G. Melson | Nothing is more terrible than
Rio Grande MicroSolutions | ignorance in action.
El Paso, Texas | Goethe
melsonr(at)earthlink(dot)net

Lesley Robertson

Re: FAMILY TREE MAKER

Legg inn av Lesley Robertson » 04 apr 2005 09:25:31

"Reggie" <reggiereesspamstopper@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:RrH3e.8869$V62.6945@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
1. Can Family Tree Maker be used to track the genealogy of more than one
family. Some of my Virginians are related and some are not. I would want
to keep track of the relations of more than one individual.

Yes. I am using it for my 1-place study, which means keeping track of all
the (unrelated) families in a community. I've found it's "show the trees of
everyone in the database" very useful for locating individuals who've
gotten lost among the bigger families!
2.The ad states that the latest program searches Ancestry.Com. Is that a
pay site that will charge in order to get search results?

Ignore the trimmings such as cds, "free" subscriptions, etc, that are
advertised with all of this software. The important thing is to find a
programme that suits your needs - things such as an Ancestry search can
always be done separately, when you choose to do it. In your position, I
would get demos of as many programmes as possible and try them all. As long
as they can read/write GEDCOM, you can always change late if you want to,
without re-entering your data.
That all said, I like FTM 2005.
Lesley Robertson

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