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Family Tree Maker Cannot Make an Ahnentafel List - Still!
Genea-Musings | December 3rd 2009 by Randy Seaver
I've been using Family Tree Maker since Version 5 (I believe) - when was that, about 1998? One of my reasons for investigating genealogy software programs other than Family Tree Maker is the lack of a simple Ahnentafel List. Every other program ca read more
Getting Help for Family Tree Maker 2010
Genea-Musings | November 30th 2009 by Randy Seaver
There are two places that a Family Tree Maker 2010 user can get instructions for using the program or obtain help to answer questions or solve problems.The first place is within Family Tree Maker 2010 itself - on the Help menu item shown in every wor read more
Why is Genealogy Software so Complex?
Genea-Musings | November 30th 2009 by Randy Seaver
One of my society colleagues recently told me:"All I want is a software program that lets me input my names, dates, places, notes, sources and photos so that I can organize my genealogy research. Then I want to be able to make nice charts, print out read more
Software for family historians, biographers and others
Hayes and Greene family history | November 25th 2009 by Steve Hayes
Dennis Allsopp Dennis Allsopp (Author of Genota and Genota Forms) was visiting Johannesburg, so I dropped in to see him and we had an interesting chat. We chatted about software for genealogists and family historians, and three topics in particular: read more
Getting Help with RootsMagic 4
Genea-Musings | November 24th 2009 by Randy Seaver
During my adult education classes on Beginning Computer Genealogy this year, I recommend downloading one of the free genealogy software programs to help the students create as a "starter" database. I tell them that Legacy Family Tree (Standard Versio read more
Adding Other Search Providers to RootsMagic 4 WebSearch
Genea-Musings | November 23rd 2009 by Randy Seaver
RootsMagic 4 has a number of Standard Search Providers in their WebSearch capability - they are Ancestry, Ancestry Message Boards, Family Search, Find a Grave, Footnote, Genealogy Bank, Google, Bing, Rootsweb, World Vital Records and Yahoo. That's w read more
RootsMagic 4 WebSearch Quirk
Genea-Musings | November 22nd 2009 by Randy Seaver
I attended the RootsMagic user group at the Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego meeting on Saturday, led by Pam Journey. I downloaded RootsMagic Version 4.0.7.0 at the meeting to my laptop (a quick download and install), and Pam did also.Pam demo read more
RootsMagic Essentials Software Available
Genea-Musings | November 19th 2009 by Randy Seaver
RootsMagic announced today the release of RootsMagic Essentials - a free desktop genealogy software based on their award-winning RootsMagic 4 system. RootsMagic Essentials contains many core features found in its namesake that allow the public to eas read more
Wild Branches
Ancestry Musings | November 12th 2009 by Terri
According to my genealogy software, I have 4363 names in my family tree. Only problem? Now I have to buckle down and find the documents, photographs, records, etc. for each one. And this includes info for the newest little branch on my tree, my nephe read more
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - A Family's Increase
Genea-Musings | October 17th 2009 by Randy Seaver
Hey, genealogy fans, it's Saturday Night! Time for some Genealogy Fun!Your task, if you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music), is to:1) Pick one of your four great-grandparents - if possible, the one with the most descendants.2) Crea read more
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