Good news.  I use a Mac and wouldn't go back to a PC if you paid me. ________________________________ From: Ashton April <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 10 September 2011, 8:00 Subject: Re: [SOG-UK] Genealogy on Macintosh Computers Dear Tim I am delighted to hear this news as with the market share of Mac users  increasing, their profile is improving.  Recognition by the SOG  may  also encourage manufacturers of genealogy soft ware to give some greater credence to our needs - for instance it would have been good to think that when the NBI CD was launched with such aplomb some years ago,  consideration had been  given to  us  Mac users - but  when I raised the query, I was informed that we were a minority !  However, who's to say that we are not  a well  educated, enlightened , informative and helpful group, well worth paying attention to!!      ........... but  perhaps we can hope for some improvement in the future? i will certainly be trying to get to 'the event' day. Sincerely, April Wood Ashton Membership No 036411 On 9 Sep 2011, at 13:11, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > With the increasing popularity of the Mac, the Society of Genealogists > is proposing to organise an event in London, England on the genealogy > programs for the Mac and I am coordinating this. > > We have several programs available: >  iFamily >  Gramps >  MacFamilyTree >  PAW2U >  Reunion >  and even Family Tree Maker (for Mac) > and there may be a few more (see > <http://www.macgenealogy.org/mac-genealogy-software/>). > > What I am thinking of is that we should first of all demonstrate as many > of these as possible.  This needs people to do the demonstrating.  I can > do Reunion but am not familiar with the others.  Can anyone else who > uses any of these other programs please get in touch with me so that we > can explore the possibilities further. > > IN addition to this, we should provide time for workshops on the > different programs.  The people attending would be able to ask questions > about using their program and the Expert would endeavour to answer > these, all in open session.  We would need volunteers for the Expert > roles, so again please get in touch with me. > > Any comments on the content or viability of this proposal, please > discuss this right here. > > (Don't be surprised if you see this appeal for help on a few other > lists.  But you saw it here first.) > > -- > Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          [email protected] >            for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message