http://www.mydnawasthere.com/2010/03/genealogy-software/ My Genealogy Project Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.mydnawasthere.com/2010/03/genealogy-software/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Dave Proper Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:43:55 +0000 http://www.mydnawasthere.com/?p=47#comment-3 Hi Stacy, I followed this link from your post on the SGGEE list server. My two cents for genealogy software is that The Master Genealogist is the best program there is. I started down this genealogy rabbit hole 18 years ago using Family Tree Maker. It worked but I soon started to become frustrated by it's limitations. Like you, I trilled the Web seeking various opinions and reviews and in the end TMG one out. TMG allows you the greatest control over your data but it also has the steepest learning curve. It took me quite a while to clean up all of my earlier mess. Perhaps the worst of it was not carefully listing my sources and organizing the piles of documents. You work on one particular family line for a while and then move on...some time later you come back to that original line and then you wonder "how did I find that and how sure am I of it?". My wife's father's side are Germans from Russia too. They settled in the Western end of the U.P. We haven't been back there a number of years but my wife's sister and brother each own part of the old family homestead and spend most of their summers there. If you would like any further details on TMG please let me know. Dave dproper@charter.net Hi Stacy,
I followed this link from your post on the SGGEE list server. My two cents for genealogy software is that The
Master Genealogist is the best program there is. I started down this genealogy rabbit hole 18 years ago using Family Tree Maker. It worked but I soon started to become frustrated by it’s limitations. Like you, I trilled the Web seeking various opinions and reviews and in the end TMG one out. TMG allows you the greatest control over your data but it also has the steepest learning curve. It took me quite a while to clean up all of my earlier mess. Perhaps the worst of it was not carefully listing my sources and organizing the piles of documents. You work on one particular family line for a while and then move on…some time later you come back to that original line and then you wonder “how did I find that and how sure am I of it?”.
My wife’s father’s side are Germans from Russia too. They settled in the Western end of the U.P. We haven’t been back there a number of years but my wife’s sister and brother each own part of the old family homestead and spend most of their summers there. If you would like any further details on TMG please let me know.
Dave
dproper@charter.net

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