On 13 Sep at 21:56, Barry1936 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Tim for your time & effort in trying to organise this event > and it would seem from the response that it will be well worthwhile. > However, I very happily use Family Historian on my Mac via a > simulation programme (VirtualBox but there are plenty of others) so > any Mac specific alternative would need to be superior. But I would > be interested in attending to find out what is available to match the > breadth and depth of Family Historian. If we can encourage enough > people in the same situation as myself to also attend, it may result > in a Mac version of Family Historian - now that would be a real bonus. Until then we have John Hanson doing sterling work on providing training on Historian. And I know it is possible to write programs somewhow so that versions are created to run in the same way on Windows mac and Unix (as I use one such for e-mail and usenet). Perhaps one day the various Genealogy software authors will migrate to that programming environment and deliver just what you want. > There is another Mac related application that does not seem to have > been mentioned: GedView. It runs brilliantly on iPads, iPods and > iPhones. Being GED file based it will import and export to any GED > based genealogy programme but, as many of you will know, not all GED > files are equal, some are more equal than others (with apologies to Mr > Orwell). That's a good idea. All I have used is Reunion for iPhone/iPod and it is now avaiable for the iPad. I'll be in touch. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe [email protected] for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/