Ian Goddard wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:50:44 -0500, singhals<singhals@erols.com> >> declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing: >> >>> kraut / larry stark wrote: >>>> Suggestions for a good freeware genealogy program that is not too >>>> complicated. >>> >>> If you're looking for MAC and free, don't believe there is one. >>> >>> If you're looking for unix based one, there is one, I just >>> don't remember what it is; someone else will. >>> >> >> Gramps http://gramps-project.org/ >> >> Should be usable on anything that can run a reasonably up-to-date >> version of the Python language -- which includes Mac/Linux/Windows >> (heck, some subsets of Python run on cell phones) >> > > I rather fell out with Gramps after I upgraded to 3.3.1. Until that > point I hadn't realised that it didn't keep copies of media files in its > own database where, in my view, they should be kept. (G) Mostly to hold up the other end of the argument -- FTM kept media in its internal database and most folks hated not having access to the images from outside FTM. After the first few images were put in, most everyone discovered the database was growing exponentially, and rather than reducing the number of images they reduced the quality. PAF5 like Gramps has you put the images into a separate directory; mine are under PAF/Data/[dbname_img] and I finally got clever enough to put the path into the NOTES as a hedge against the next head-crash. Then again, I'm not as generous when I share as some folks. Cheryl