DOWNLOADING FROM PC TO PDA

[jennifer yates]

Hi all,
I have my family tree on FTM on a pc. Is it possible to download from a PC
to a PDA, and if so, what PDA's are the best?
I am tossing up between a PDA & a laptop to make the data portable.
Many thanks
Jenny

[john]

jennifer yates wrote:

Hi all,
I have my family tree on FTM on a pc. Is it possible to download from a PC
to a PDA, and if so, what PDA's are the best?
I am tossing up between a PDA & a laptop to make the data portable.
Many thanks
Jenny


You can check out the PDA software available at

http://www.cyndislist.com/software.htm#Palm

Screen size and readability are factors to consider between PDA and laptop.

[singhals]

jennifer yates wrote:

Hi all,
I have my family tree on FTM on a pc. Is it possible to download from a PC
to a PDA, and if so, what PDA's are the best?
I am tossing up between a PDA & a laptop to make the data portable.
Many thanks
Jenny

PDA wins on a portability basis.

Laptop wins on a legibility basis.

I believe the navigation tools on the laptop are more time-saving than
those on the PDA; people with a PDA embedded in their forearm disagree?

Cheryl (always amazed that the guy reading e-mail on his cell-phone has
56-inch TV to watch football.)

[Beagle]

I use both for my pedigree. The PDA is useful for checking things one might
come across accidentally or casually while the laptop is a must if you are
going specifically to do some pedigree research in an institution of some
sort.

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jennifer yates wrote:

Hi all,
I have my family tree on FTM on a pc. Is it possible to download from a
PC to a PDA, and if so, what PDA's are the best?
I am tossing up between a PDA & a laptop to make the data portable.
Many thanks
Jenny

PDA wins on a portability basis.

Laptop wins on a legibility basis.

I believe the navigation tools on the laptop are more time-saving than
those on the PDA; people with a PDA embedded in their forearm disagree?

Cheryl (always amazed that the guy reading e-mail on his cell-phone has
56-inch TV to watch football.)

[John]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:30:06 GMT, "Beagle"
<[email protected]> wrote:

I use both for my pedigree. The PDA is useful for checking things one might
come across accidentally or casually while the laptop is a must if you are
going specifically to do some pedigree research in an institution of some
sort.

Agreed.

The laptop has capabilities that the PDA can't match (copy of Legacy,
Word, Excel, and notepad all open at once, for example), but the
laptop doesn't fit in my pocket.

I use Legacy on the PC and My Roots on a Palm. My Roots comes with a
PC-based utililty that reads gedcom files and creates the proper file
format for the PDA.

John