Genealogy program suggestions.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 5/29/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> David A' Rebel wrote:
>
> 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.

I should probably leaf through the manual a bit. I doubt that that
particular bug will
bite me (and it can't- WWII), but having all the data in gramps rather than some
home-baked solution might make my kids' life easier if _he_ gets bitten.

>
> >  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.

Thanks. That's what I meant.

>
> > 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.

I didn't feel patronized. I understand that he was only trying to help me.

> derek

dotan