I use PAF now. It's FREE from LDS web site. I have used several others and like PAF best. I use a cheap scanner for old snapshots and it works great. Have not tried text scanning as yet. ----- Original Message ----- From: chetejohnson Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:25 PM To: SCGREENV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCGREENV] Seeking Application Information Can anybody suggest a Genealogy Application and scanner make and model? I've got a lot of information on paper but want to load into an application. Two that I have researched and are considering are Family Tree Maker and Master Genealogist. I'm leaning toward MG. I would like to someday publish my work and I've got a lot of pictures and documents to scan into the application. That brings me to my second question of a scanner... Looking at the Epson line. Any recomendations and I do have a USB port? ==== SCGREENV Mailing List ==== ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/libraryGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Perry: I'm a confirmed Family Tree Maker user. The differences between the programs are probably not that major. You should check out the individual sites for the programs and see if they have any evaluation programs you can download. Then you could try them out and see which one fits your needs. Most scanners attach to the port your printer lives on and the printer in turn attaches to the back of the scanner. I have used many different scanners (I'm a graphic artist by profession). The only one I hated was Visionier Paper Port. The resolution is what makes the scanner different from the next one. The higher it permits, the better your photo's will look. If you are scanning photographs you will need some sort of program to scan to, i.e., Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, etc. Lots of scanners come with an image editing program. Just make sure the one you buy does have something to scan to. Again, if you are going to scan text, and want it to remain as editable text rather than an image of text, you will need a program called OCR (optical character reader). Again, the scanner manufacturer might bundle such software with the scanner. That might be a determining factor on which scanner you buy. OCR has improved greatly over the years but is still not perfect. You have a certain amount of "cleaning up" to do after a text scan (removing strange characters, etc.). I am not 100% positive, but pretty sure that no genealogy program is going to let you scan documentation into it. You could scan into a word processor and then cut and paste. Kathi Jones-Hudson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/