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The first record of the name Drisdall (Drysdale) in Ireland may be found on the Ulster Settlers website on which two John Drisdalls (possibly father & son) are listed as being associated with the Great Ards (Barony) in County Down.

A descendant, the Rev. John Drysdale, born circa 1605, was the first Drysdale in Ireland to have a life that was extensively documented  -  descendants in his family line included:

Hugh Drysdale Archdeacon of Ossory - about 1635 – 27 March 1692
Rev. James Drysdale - about 1637 – 1687
Lt. Governor Hugh Drysdale of Virginia, U.S. - 1672–1726
Griffith Drysdale, 1670 – Deceased - a Lawyer at Grays Inn, London, from 1688

Further details and source material may be found in the following pdf:

https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12508670479?profile=original


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Hi all,

I think that you are all providing comments and advice for me here on the assumption that I am maintaining my family a tree on my home PC, and then periodically updating this tree by either synching with Familytree or downloading Gedcoms, and then using them to update my local family tree on an ongoing basis.

This is not actually the case. I do have a local family tree, with good source material, going back approx 500 years, which is fine, and which as far as I am concerned is inviolate. This is never connected via software to Familysearch or any other online site.

But at the same time I do carry out a lot of research into the family name within the extended family tree on Familysearch and update that tree with source material and family links when this is appropriate. I then download the Gedcom of the work that I have done for records purposes only.

It is this work that I do on Familysearch that necessitates the use genealogy software:

i) to download and generate GEDCOM files
ii) to visualise the content of the GEDCOM files
iii) to query the data in these files
iv) to map locations

I started this thread complaining about a product I had bought which didn't function as it should have and which had a very short lifespan. The thread then seems to have evolved into some sort of scenario whereby 'the product is very good' and everything I am doing is wrong, with a lot of advice being given as to what I should be doing (without knowing what I am actually doing).

While I appreciate the constructive criticism and the spirit with which it has been offered, at the end of the day, my experience with the Rootsmagic software has been mostly negative and I am happy to advise that I have now purchased a functional, user friendly alternative,

Best regards 

Dear Biggles,

Thank you for your additional opinions.

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Hi,

I hope it's of use. I did note a few Halidays & Hallidays on the list.

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Hi Biggles

I bought Rootsmagic 8 software in October '22 and version 9 came out January '23.

When I bought it, I did not have the expectation that I would have to buy it again every year.

If the log-on procedure was modified then Rootsmagic should have provided a patch to owners of version 8 to give the product that they sold some sort of reasonable life.

I did raise quite a few tickets about the mapping problem, but got no useful solution from their tech guys and after re-installing the software multiple times, with different operating systems, on different PCs I decided to give up on it and I used the free version of Family Tree Analyser, to plot my map data instead. They wasted a lot of my time with this problem and now you are suggesting I join the RootsMagic Forum to spend some further time whingeing there?

I have no intention of spending further time getting the Rootsmagic problem sorted - the reason I'm spending time now writing about it is to give others a heads up about problems with the two stage verification process (and my dissatisfaction with the software).

I think you should have qualified your final comment to read "In my opinion your comment is inappropriate"

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