Dear All & Steve .... I have a number of non-standard fields in Legacy relating to UK Census returns and I found these did NOT import into Clooz3 from Legacy .... I emailed Clooz and below is the email I received back from Ancestral Systems .... <snip> Clooz only imports people and sources (separately) from Legacy (or any of the other import types). Events are not currently included. It would be nearly impossible to import most of the event types because there is no real format standard and there is a lot of variability in the way people use these events. We do hope to develop means to export census (and other document related events) to Legacy, so that you could gather and record data in Clooz, and then move it over to Legacy without manual reentry. No time estimate on availability for that though. The reports in Clooz can be exported to excel and pdf files, as well as a few other formats. The database itself is an access database (at least in version 3). Version 3 of Clooz was meant to address the critical problems users were having with version 2.1. We have done that, and more. We are planning a full-scale overhaul of the program for Version 4, so we do pay attention to comments such as yours when deciding which features need to be added. <snip> HTH Regards Bill -----Original Message----- From: gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Steve Hayes Sent: 14 August 2012 19:35 To: gencmp@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Free trial of Clooz 3.00 On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:18:21 +0200, john <john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr> wrote: >On 05/08/2012 05:40, Steve Hayes wrote: >> Clooz is a genealogical research tool that enables you to analyse your data in >> various ways, and possibly open up new avenues for research. >> >> Development of the program was recently taken over by Ancestral Systems, and >> they are now offering a free trial of Clooz 3.0, which is due to be released >> soon. >> >> For more information see: >> http://www.clooz.com/ >> > >So have you tried it out yet? Any opinion/comments? I haven't tried it out seriously, though I've been following some of the discussions from others who have. The reason I have not tried it out seriously is that when I imported from my main genealogy database, it did not populate the "Alternate Id" field with the RIN or Id from my main database, and typing them in for 17000+ entries in the trial period is impractical, so I suggested that they introduce that feature, and when they do I'll be willing to give it a bash further. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENCMP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message