I almost didn’t believe my ears this morning when I read on Twitter that Ancestry.com announced they were going to be releasing Family Tree Maker for Mac later this year.
The part of me that grew up on Family Tree Maker back in the early 1990s did a little happy dance, while the part of me that has grown to love Leister Pro’s Reunion and my incredibly crazy work around to run RootsMagic on my MacBook Pro died a little inside. Certainly, Family Tree Maker is a household name in genealogy these days and with it’s integration with Ancestry.com’s online research site it’s sure to make things easier. However, I wonder what it’s going to do to these smaller programs that have been supporting Mac Users for much longer.
When I returned to Genealogy after a terribly long absence I had switched from a PC to a Mac and was challenged by finding a program that was both user-friendly and elegant for my tastes. Leister Pro’s Reunion has done that for me for years. And it wasn’t until very recently (*cough* this year *cough*) that I felt like I was really out growing their program. Where I feel Reunion falls short is on the ability to format sources. Their forms and fields have always seemed a bit cumbersome to me and I don’t at all like how their sources are displayed in the reports that the program generates. While I’m not often producing reports from within my genealogy program of choice, I do find on occasion that it’s simple to print of something for my mother or a close family relative that doesn’t want all the time and effort that a real report might take. I still use Reunion when I’m kicking around ideas and I love the integration that they have offered for the iPhone – I still think that no app out there beats it.
But I’m not sure how the software dynamic is going to change when Family Tree Maker for Mac hits the market. It will be interesting to see if it’s essentially a carbon copy of their Windows version or if there are some limitations due to the different programming platform. I’d also love to see how they plan on supporting the desktop client with an iPhone app!
This morning, Ancestry.com and NBC announced that they will be partnering up again for another season of the hit genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? The series features celebrities on their journey to solve a genealogical problem. Besides featuring tools and repositories that are helpful to many researchers, the series shows that everyone [...]
You know how when you start spring cleaning, no matter how hard you try things always seem to get worse before they get better? Well, that’s what we expect might be happening around here at MyNeChimKi’s Genealogical Services. We’re going to begin some exciting new changes, but in the process we think that some dust [...]
Originally posted on 6 August 2009 on iPhonespaz.com. In the previous review of Genealogy applications, we looked at applications that are stand-alone GEDCOM viewers. As we found, these were helpful for a quick, nitty-gritty search when on-location for hard-copy genealogy research. However, they did not (for the most part) allow genealogists or family historians make [...]
Originally posted on 18 June 2009 on iPhonespaz.com. The author regrets that this post is a bit out of date and doesn’t include some of the newer GEDCOM Viewers that are out in the App Store these days. Genealogy On-The-Go When I go off into the world of paper and archives I like to have [...]
Apologies for missing this post last week, however, this week more than makes up for it! Wow!! There are tons of mid-April events… and good ones too. Sadly, I will not be joining you for these. I’m taking a couple of weekends off genealogy (since I’m really only a Weekend Warrior these days anyway). This [...]
It’s looking a little sparse this week… so take a break from all your educational opportunities to enjoy your family over the Easter weekend!! This Week’s Classes, Conferences & Seminars Thursday, April 1, 2010: Thomas Balch Library – Researching Court Records, 10:00am, Leesburg, VA (FREE) Saturday, April 3, 2010: Maryland Historical Society – Family History [...]
I’m the anti-bandwagon person. Usually if something takes off running with masses and masses of support I’m the one that’s standing behind, crossed-arms, digging my heels in and refusing to become part of the hysteria. It was no different with the show Who Do You Think You Are?, a program sponsored by Ancestry.com and NBC [...]
Geneabloggers.com and Amy at WeTree have done it again! This year they’re bringing us 52 weeks of genealogy challenges to blog about. As Amy said in her kick-off post, this year is meant to stretch our brains, work our skills, and build us into top notch researchers! She goes on to say: The goal is [...]
You know how when you start spring cleaning, no matter how hard you try things always seem to get worse before they get better? Well, that’s what we expect might be happening around here at MyNeChimKi’s Genealogical Services. We’re going to begin some exciting new changes, but in the process we think that some dust [...]
MyNeChimKi’s Genealogical Services’ post for 2010 Genealogical Resolutions is part of the 87th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy hosted by Jasia at Creative Gene. I’ve done a really good job of doing my genealogy in a rather haphazard manner. It seems that most of my information just happens to come from whatever rock (or [...]
Apologies for missing this post last week, however, this week more than makes up for it! Wow!! There are tons of mid-April events… and good ones too. Sadly, I will not be joining you for these. I’m taking a couple of weekends off genealogy (since I’m really only a Weekend Warrior these days anyway). This [...]
Apologies for missing this post last week, however, this week more than makes up for it! Wow!! There are tons of mid-April events… and good ones too. Sadly, I will not be joining you for these. I’m taking a couple of weekends off genealogy (since I’m really only a Weekend Warrior these days anyway). This [...]
From the Geneabloggers site: Madness Monday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Madness Monday simply create a post with the main focus being an ancestor who may have suffered from some form of mental illness or an ancestor who drives [...]
I almost didn’t believe my ears this morning when I read on Twitter that Ancestry.com announced they were going to be releasing Family Tree Maker for Mac later this year. The part of me that grew up on Family Tree Maker back in the early 1990s did a little happy dance, while the part of [...]
So, I’ve been doing quite a bit of family research lately. I started off working on a few lineages on my dad’s side, and now I’m playing a waiting game records so I decided to go off on a tangent and work on a lineage that hasn’t been touched on my mother’s side. The Holladays. [...]
