Calling all
Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night
again -
Time for some more
Genealogy Fun!!
Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing this week is:
1) Almost all of us
have genealogy software that we use to manage our research and our family
tree. Some researchers use only an
online family tree. What do you use?
2) For this week's
SNGF, tell us how many "trees" (or "bushes)" you have in
your genealogy management program database.
How did you figure it out? Also,
where do you have online trees?
Here's mine:
1. I have used three different genealogy software programs
over my genealogy researching career. I began with PAF (DOS) and upgraded to
the Windows version later. I continued using it even when it was discontinued
but it worked fine for me. I kept most of my data in the notes area using tags.
Later, a group of us attended a talk given by Geoff Rasmussen
and he showed screen shots from the program Legacy Family Tree. He had a
promotion, get three for $50. Since there were three of us attending together,
we jumped on it. I used the program for about four years.
It was a mail-serve list comment from Elizabeth Shown Mills
that convinced me to switch to RootsMagic. She really like the research notes
report and I thought it would be a good idea to make use of that. I am
committed to using RootsMagic and have RM7. I was a beta tester for RM8, but I
did not care for it as it had a totally different interface. I will just stick
with RM7.
2. I have only one tree and no bushes. I am not even sure how to make another tree without having it just be another file. I research my children’s ancestors, so they are in the number one position. I have more than one file, however, as I have conducted research for others and keep a record of my findings both in the research report and in RootsMagic, because I like to keep track of the people that way.
Even though I have used RootsMagic only a little, it makes more sense to me than Reunion does after all this time. Maybe I should switch to that until I get my FTM back (if I manage to!). But I'm glad I'm not the only one with no bushes.
ReplyDeleteI have never learned the full power of RootsMagic. To me, it's just a database to hold my information. I don't need it to make reports and books. I put the information where it makes most sense.
DeleteYour approach is similar to mine, except I have one tree for hubby's lines and one for mine. I pretty much use just the database portion of my software programs, too, although I occasionally print out family group sheets if I am working on a family with a lot of kids.
ReplyDeleteI thought about splitting up the trees for each side, since there's no way they would ever connect (at least in my researching life-time and the availability of records). But it seemed easier to have it all in one place.
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