Genealogy program suggestions.

[Derek Broughton]

David A' Rebel wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 May 2006 00:59, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I took a look at Gramps, but it seems way to complex for what I need.
>> Are there any simple Genealogy programs for linux available?
>> Basically, I want to create family trees. Thanks.

Dotan, I really think Gramps is worth the trouble.  It's not any harder to
use than any of the Windows-based programs I've tried, and it will do what
you want now, and much more when the genealogy bug bites you and you need
to track down all that extra documentation that genealogists revere.

>  And Gramps doesn't allow you to do this how ? It has to be the best
>  genealogy
> database I have ever come across.

Well, he said it was too complicated, not that it couldn't be done.

> I've been working on my own family tree 
> for 10 years now and have used both windows and linux OS's in that time.
> There are some very simple programs out there that are basically, put
> people on a tree like you see in books etc, if you want something like
> that then you really are not a serious genealogist and a simple drawing
> program or office program is all you need, Try abiword, koffice or if you
> want to draw something gimp.

He's _not_ a "serious genealogist", and there's no reason you should be
expecting him to be one.  Face it, if everybody showed enough interest in
genealogy to "just put people on a tree" the lives of genealogists would be
a whole lot simpler.  Don't patronize posters just because they don't want
to treat a hobby as if it's a profession.
-- 
derek