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Topic: Which is the best genealogy software (Read 7888 times)
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BIRDI
RootsChat Extra
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I've done quite a lot of research into my family tree and am going to buy some software to enter it all into. Any suggestions as to which one is the best one to go for?
I want to be able to show all parts of the tree, brothers children etc.
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TaffyBlue
RootsChat Senior
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Personally I use Roots Magic and think it's a briliant piece of software. I also have Genbox Family History, which is also very good but tends to naff up some of the more complicated entries (ie. step-family, illegitimate births).
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BAYLIFF - Lancashire, CAMPINI - Birmingham/Shropshire, FLOWERDEW - Norfolk, GUERIN - London, HAMER - Wales, INGLEBY - Wales/Yorkshire, MACAULEY - Glasgow, NOBBS - Yarmouth, Norfolk, WILLIAMS - Caernarfonshire, WILSON - Glasgow, WOOLSEY - Norfolk Census Information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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BIRDI
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 26
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Thanks for that.
I'll have a look around and try a few out until I find one that suits me.
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mc8
RootsChat Aristocrat
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I also use rootsmagic-I downloaded the program direct from their site for about £15
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scotmum
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1607
A tree full of life, a life full of branches!
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As others have said, rather than there being a best, there are many very good programmes with different qualities to suit different people. Last year I downloaded a trial of Genbox. After playing about with it for a month or so, I decided I very much liked it but not at the price it then was. However, a few months later, the price has dropped and the other week I bought a copy from TWR computing. It comes as a single disc in a plastic sleeve, no fancy extras, but suits me fine because of how flexible the programme is and how well it deals with a variety of situations within a family (eg 2nd marriages/families, siblings from family A marrying siblings from B, adoptions, etc).
Shirleymarye, you might find this is just the job for your cousins marrying cousins. It seems to cope well with the less than straighforward situations thrown at it .
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STEWART, Lanarkshire, Scotland and Fermanagh/Monaghan border areas, Ireland
LILLEY, County Antrim, Ireland (now NI).
HENDERSON,Lanarkshire,Scotland and probably County Londonderry, Ireland (now NI).
CAPE Cumberland, England & Lanarkshire, Scotland
SCOTT Cumberland, England & Lanarkshire, Scotland
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scotmum
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1607
A tree full of life, a life full of branches!
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I also have Genbox Family History, which is also very good but tends to naff up some of the more complicated entries (ie. step-family, illegitimate births).
Taffyblue, I have found it actually copes well with situations such as you have mentioned. Are you perhaps using an older version?
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STEWART, Lanarkshire, Scotland and Fermanagh/Monaghan border areas, Ireland
LILLEY, County Antrim, Ireland (now NI).
HENDERSON,Lanarkshire,Scotland and probably County Londonderry, Ireland (now NI).
CAPE Cumberland, England & Lanarkshire, Scotland
SCOTT Cumberland, England & Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Burrow Digger
RootsChat Aristocrat
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I use Legacy and it seems to cope very well with cousins marrying cousins. I have 2 such situations in my family tree and the system has coped with no SNAFUs at all. 
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