Hello,
I wanted to add to that Brother's Keeper has been the best program for me to
use in printing out pedigree charts.  I went to a Genealogy show in SF
several years ago and ROOTs was the program being touted.  I bought it and
found that it was impossible to use and when Visual Roots came along, I
upgraded to that and I found it was not much better.   I have been very
disappointed with both these programs.
I would like to find a program that was easy to use and printed out reports
easily.  Brother's Keeper was the most efficient for printing out pedigrees.
It also cost so much less than the Roots and Visual Roots. In fact, cost
seemed in inverse proportion to ease of use.
I would appreciate hearing more about a program that is easy to use and bug
proof.
thanks,
Gaila
-----Original Message-----
From: wilma conway 
To: [email protected] <>
Date: Thursday, 06 August, 1998 12:43
Subject: Software


recently downloaded the Brother's Keeper 5 genealogy shareware program,
>which was recommended to me by a listoowner, as suitable for my 3 year
>old Aptiva II. I find it is very basic and easy to use and would
>recommend it for anyone who is new to entering genealogy on computers.
>
>The only drawback, after using it for a few days, it seems very slow.
>You cannot use alt/tab to go from one screen to another.  It is
>necessary to go all of the way out of the screen for one person if you
>find something about another person before you can enter it. The
>marriage information is entered on a separate screen.  The only way you
>can get to see the overall picture is to go out of the edit function and
>into another part of the program.  I find this awkward and annoying, but
>as a learning tool it was great.  It is similar to entering things on
>index cards, but you must use a different card for each bit of
>information.  You cannot spread out the cards and view more than one at
>a time as you are entering information.  Also, yI have not been able to
>make corrections from the section which is similar to "list view".
>
>It may be that this is the way all such programs work, I just think
>there must be an easier way. I would appreciate if anyone who is very
>happy with their program would share information.
>
>Wilma


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