On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:11:09 +0100, Baldy Man <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:31:45 -0400, singhals <[email protected]> >wrote: > >/snip/ > > >I use Family Historian 4 having tried every one of the programmes >mentioned. > >I came to this decision for a number of reasons. I took the FH4 tour... but I have not dl'ed the free trial yet. Being unable to decide which of two programs I like best seems to be less demanding than deciding which of three! The problem with always making your own decisions is that you never have anyone else to blame. In Legacy one must switch to several screens to enter data and sources. By the tour data entry in FH seems much simpler. FH was ranked 5th by an independent review group because it doesn't have some of the features the higher ranked programs have. However, everyone may not need all the bells and whistles available in some programs. One appears to need an installer and make several other adjustments to install Gramps on a Windows computer. That may be a little much although the price is right. Hugh

J. Hugh Sullivan wrote: [snip] > The problem with always making your own decisions is that you never > have anyone else to blame. > I /hear/ that! (g) OTOH, you'n'I can always blame one another -- as the saying goes, I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was going to blame you. [snip] > everyone may not need all the bells and whistles available in some > programs. I have a cousin, born and raised where a quarter-inch of snow closes down the freeways/interstates and everything else in town. Moved to Philadelphia, bought a 4-wheel-drive to help deal with the driving-in-a-foot-of-it. By the time she figured out 5 forward gears and the transition to 4-wheel, winter was over and by the next winter she was in Los Angeles where she needed neither the expertise or equipment. All the bells, whistles, nook, crannies, and templates in most programs today are remarkably similar to her situation -- by the time one figures out how to use them correctly, there's a new/better version that does it ever-so-slightly differently or changes the location of the icon or whatever. Then again, maybe I'm just jaded? Cheryl