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Robert O. Pulse Thank You Jeff Jahn I have access to three family members on MyHeritage - I was not aware that they had offered a separate software package until this message - will look at it.
I did evaluate cloud genealogy systems some time ago, I had the one Ancestry has for a while, but dropped it when they published my data and did not protect the living. Something they have corrected now, but I did not even realize it was an Ancestry company until a relative complained and I read the fine print.

MyHeritage is different it is an Israeli company; I assume the servers are in Israel and fall under their privacy laws. My family members on their system have discussed this and we are ok so far. I like Israeli engineers, they find unique solutions, so I will add this software to the to be evaluated list http://www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder...

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December 11

Robert O. Pulse Well I am a little better off than most - many years ago, I built a filing system based on ID numbers, in each file is all the media and a HTML time line, the time line has links to all the media. I have not kept it up to date, but it is only two years behind. All I have to do is update this filing system, build the new file in the new program using Gedcom. I may not even rebuild the links to the media from the software, my filing system works just fine, and I have control over it. I have never loaded all my information into FTM it contains 20 somethin picture albums and 30+ envelopes of photographs. I just took an count and counting the html pages there are over 100,000 documents in that folder.

December 11

Robert O. Pulse Sorry 30,000 files

Robert O. Pulse You get to the larger files if you do everyone in a county for a society (other responses on this site) or in my case I agreed to be the family genealogist for the reunion and our family came over in 1737 -

Robert O. Pulse Sue Clifford Maxwell Thank You for the information, I think you answered all my questions, but I will have more as i review these programs more.

Robert O. Pulse MyHeritage - Tel Aviv, Israel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyHeritage Jana Thompson - It really looks forward looking and appears to be biger than Ancestry in the areas i am interested in and I already have 3 family members using it. Like the Photo ID aspects -

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MyHeritage is a family-oriented social network service and genealogy website. It allows members to create their own family websites, share pictures and videos, organize family events, create family trees, and search for ancestors.[1][2] With over 75 million users, MyHeritage is one of the largest si...
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Robert O. Pulse Peggy Baldwin RootsMagic is gaining appeal to me - several people have contacted me beyond this site for it - I have given myself till the 19 to make a decision (the RootsMagic special goes off on the 20th) - Thank You for your input, I do NOT want to follow your path, this is going to be painful enough getting the media out of FTM and organized. Frankly, my citations could use updating, I have not been consistent, and continue to learn. I cannot remember, but one of the programs I reviewed this week, seemed to have tools for doing citations/Evidence consistently, was that RootsMagic? Can you share more about your experiences with citations and evidence in RootsMagic, how is the user interface, does it make suggestions for form/content, what is the gradient in Evidence i.e., 5 levels or more?

I guess I am asking if it followers: https://www.evidenceexplained.com/?
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Robert O. Pulse Janelle Vandervort Dvorak all programs have problems and I am willing to put up with a number of them (and have in the past), someone above put it best, I need to find a package that addresses my needs and that is the reason for my questions - I am trying to find a partner in this genealogy quest that shares my values, and I know both of us will fail from time to time, but we can get over the rough spots. I do regular back-ups (monthly) and have a 22 year history of backups (now all migrated data DVD’s, not many machines play 250Mbit tapes anymore), I kept duplicate media files separate from program files until two years ago, and now I regret that, but I believe the files are retrievable (will see after the 20th). The point is that I do my share to maintain data integrity, and I am flexible with problems that occur from time to time. I really appreciate your feedback, I was not living under the illusion that these programs are faultless, and was getting a little concerned that all I was hearing was good news. I have found that if I understand the faults in software and develop workarounds, that I feel better using it. So anyone that has experienced something about these packages that concern them, I would like to hear that, I can judge if I can work around it, and in some cases it may not be important to me.
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Robert O. Pulse I made a decision to go with RootsMagic at this time, the process and documentation of the conversion process as it proceeds can be found at http://www.pittsburgcogenealogical.org/.../S.../Index%20.htm Note this is under construction and spelling is not one of my strong suits.
Turn-out was outstanding – Thank You!!!! – Comments are welcome and My experiences in converting to RootsMagic will be updated as I go along.

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Two weeks ago I came to the following conclusions;
1. I will have to have FTM2014 as long as I use ancestry because it is the most efficient method of moving data from the ancestry databases to my computer, but I am in the process of migrating to Family Search for my primary search database, and all FTM advantages fall away in that scenario.
2. There is a disconnect between how I believe a genealogical software package and the way FTM2013/2012/2010/2008 is performing, and that the marginal utility of using the FTM is less than the high threshold for moving to another package.
3. I started a research process utilizing the members of this group to help me analyze my options - the turn-out was outstanding, and I appreciate all the input
Like you, I find navigating stings in FaceBook to be frustrating and one of its major flaws, and since I do a lot of html work I have tracked the feedback here: http://www.pittsburgcogenealogical.org/Advanced/Software/Index%20.htm Note this is under construction and spelling is not one of my strong suits. I offer it to you if you make similar decision to mine. The high threshold to change is documented in Steps in the Process of Conversion section.

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