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GedWise (PalmOS) for Windows, Mac, and Linux

January 23, 2006

GedWise, a PalmOS genealogy appliacation, has received several updates recently - as far as we know, it’s the only Palm OS/PDA software that can be installed under Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

You can read the full story at Mobile Genealogy

Written by admin · Filed Under PDA Genealogy Software 

IT Reviews: GSP - Who Do You Think You Are Deluxe Edition

January 21, 2006

Family Tree Maker - Who Do You Think You Are
Note: This is a re-branded version of Family Tree Maker for the UK market.

IT Reviews has published a review of GSP’s Family Tree Maker - Who Do You Think You Are? Deluxe Edition. It’s interesting, considering that it’s a site not known for reviews of genealogy software. This is “GSP’s tie-in to the hugely successful and surprisingly good BBC TV show, the one that saw the occasional celebrity who you’d heard of go and trace their roots. ”

They had two complaints - one, that you felt like you were just entering data into another database, and the second, that the software pulls you into subscribing to Ancestry.com, and that you have to register online with your name and email address to access certain content.

Their complaint:

So we clicked on one of the search results, and a further problem emerges. The Web element is where the ancestry.com subscription kicks in, and the program does include a free month with the admittedly-excellent site, which is worth a tenner.

Only if you don’t have a credit card, you’re stuffed. Now to be fair to GSP, they do warn you of this on the box, but that doesn’t make it much easier to stomach. To even get to the Web search you have to register, and to get full access to the search results you have to hand over your plastic. Surely it’s not just us that find this troublesome?

Their verdict:

This is an unpolished package, the main highlight of which is available elsewhere for a third of the price.

GSP - Family Treek Maker - Who Do You Think You Are? Delux Edition - website.

Written by admin · Filed Under Family Tree Maker, Reviews, Windows Applications 

Legacy Family Tree version 6.0.0.79

January 20, 2006

Legacy Family Tree Version 6.0.0.79 has been released - Legacy is a genealogy program for Windows. If you are already a Legacy 6.0 Deluxe user, you can click “Install and Download Now” from the Legacy Home tab (from within Legaacy, of course). The Standard Edition can be downloaded from here This is a fairly significant update. Changes listed below.

What’s New:
- PDF - We are using a newer version of the print preview engine and PDF creation tool. Hopefully this will solve some of the incompatibility issues that some are having with older versions of Acrobat Reader.

Timelines
- Added a timeline for Ireland - Taoisigh and Political Events - 1919 to Present
- Updated the LDS Events timeline

Book Reports - added four new child paragraph report phrases:
- Single father with more than one child (His children were:)
- Single father with only one child (His child was:)
- Single mother with more than one child (Her children were:)
- Single mother with only one child (Her child was:)

Research Guidance
- Canada - Added link for the new online 1911 census, Ontario Marriage Index 1858-1899, Ontario Birth Index 1869-1907, Ontario Death Index 1869-1932
- Denmark - added links to online 1787, 1801, 1834, 1840, 1845, 1850, 1855, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, and 1921 census records
- Norway - guidance for cemetery research
- USA - Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota - added hundreds of local histories that are not available at the Family History Library
- USA - North Dakota - Added link for the new online state death index 1881

Written by admin · Filed Under Legacy, Windows Applications 

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