Ol' Bab wrote: > We knew Mom was fooling around with genealogy, but the extent was a > surprise! > > We (I and eldest son) want to do it right, save this stuff to > electronic format, make it available on a website (that's no > problem). > > The problem is to get the right software the first time. Probably > other problems ...... tell me. Not much money available. Download (no charge) either PAF from www.familysearch.org under Order Products, or Legacy from http://www.Legacyfamilytree.com/ Both are excellent; I've used PAF longest and like it best, but that's personal preference. Both programs do GEDCOM in case you want to share data as data or need to change your mind about what program (Catch: if you used *all* the bells and whistles in your first program, GED will lose some of 'em). Both will do "save as HTML" for webpages. > Any good advice is appreciated. I don't want to start entering > data, only to find the effort wasted due to poor choice. I'm afraid that's a factor that will only become clear about half-way through data-entry. :( Murphy's Law, you know. > Using my "handle" for now, until I figure how you people get away > with letting your names and email addresses hang out for SPAM > harvesting... Dunno -- my spam generates from another source, not the newsgroups. Cheryl singhals@erols.com