From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jul 20 08:52:01 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6KEq1jb013052; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:52:01 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6KEpvoB015233 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:51:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6KCDpFI016141 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:13:51 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6KCDpHE016140 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:13:51 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6KBYWFI015995 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:34:32 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6KECSSL000867 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:12:28 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JNich57@aol.com Thu Jul 20 08:12:28 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6KECSjb000856 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:12:28 -0600 Received: from imo-d23.mx.aol.com (imo-d23.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.137]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6KECPwd014065 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:12:25 -0600 Received: from JNich57@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id f.3ad.66fd2f5 (33856); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:11:54 -0400 (EDT) From: JNich57@aol.com Message-ID: <3ad.66fd2f5.31f0e92a@aol.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:11:54 EDT Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Genealogy Software To: phoenix@nova1.net, ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5032 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com My primary software is PAF which can be downloaded free of charge from FamilySearch. I have been very pleased with the format and ease of use. It does all the basic reports. I have also tried Legacy and like it as well, but since I started with PAF decided to stick with it and only use Legacy for some of its report features. Of course, this requires me to create a new gedcom but load it to Legacy, but since I don't print reports very often I don't consider that a problem. I am not a FTM fan since everytime I had it loaded on my pc it caused problems. Granted this was an older version (about 5 or 6 years ago) but since it didn't offer me anything better than PAF or Legacy I decided I didn't need it. Personally I think you should choose whatever software is the easiest for you to use and that gives you the reporting that you want. JON In a message dated 7/19/2006 7:25:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, phoenix@nova1.net writes: I would greatly appreciate any input on which program(s) list members use either in combination with or in the stead of Family Tree Maker. These are the names of the demos I have (if you use something not listed here, please tell me about it):