Hi Joe, I have used Parloc on a PC at the FHC, and found it useful. At home I use Mac. I like being able to see the satellite image of the land on Google, actually see the distance between parishes, and see what geological features lie between them, if any. Both tools are useful in their own way. Venita On Nov 30, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Joe Bissett <jbissett@hot-peppers.com> wrote: > Hi Venita, > > On 11/30/2013 11:10 AM, Venita wrote: >> I regularly use them to judge distance between parishes, find parish churches, > > In addition to my cousin's program, I have been using the free Parish > Locator program for years, and I love it. > > http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ParLocDL.html > > Apparently this is a newer version, so I will have to check it out > myself. ParLoc is great for giving distances between parishes, and one > can plot out a circle for a given radius around a given parish, which > shows all of the parishes within that radius. My old version does not > use an actual map overlay, so unless the new version now does that, I > suggest that one use it in conjunction with cousin Alexander's program. > > Regards, Joe > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message