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. 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). Barry Hepburn On 10 Sep 2011, at 08:00, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:11:24 +0100 > From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <[email protected]> > Subject: [SOG-UK] Genealogy on Macintosh Computers > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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/