Thanks, Don! Even though I might have asked the wrong question, I got the correct answer(s) -- rofl. I imagine some other folks here appreciate your words, too. Yeppers, like you, just biding my time. Tom D. -----Original Message----- From: Don Ferguson Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 11:37 PM To: 'Tom' ; tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [TMG-REFUGEES] Family Historian Tom, it is irrelevant to think of it being a UK product that doesn't work well with US data. Its main problem is that it doesn't work well with TMG data, as it has no concept of roles and witnesses - I'm pleased to see they are heading in that direction though, as it does some nice things in its current release. The easiest way to check it out is to download the 30-day trial, install it, and (as they suggest) do a direct import of your TMG data - its quick and easy. I have not done an exhaustive analysis of it, but here's some observations - Tags become Facts, Memos become Notes, Sources become Sources, Source citations become Text to Sources, Sureties get mapped into its own 4 categories of Assessment (reasonably sensibly). Sentences are based on its own very simplistic sentence structures - nothing like TMG sophistication. It has no concept of Sort Dates, and you even have to use F9 to get dated events into order sometimes. Tags types it doesn't know about seem to get dropped - I think if you pre-defined a Fact with a matching name, then things might import OK. If it does manage to import a tag that it has no sentence for, it just uses a dummy "He experienced XXX at data, place" sentence (rubbish in other words). Fact types can be added, but the standard ones can't be deleted (although can be hidden). It imported all my Sources effectively, but got a bit confused on Repositories. I'm still not clear on its approach to new Sources - can't find any canned list of source types/formats. As it can't handle Witnesses, their existence is noted as a Note to a Fact, with a Role number which is currently meaningless. Flags are an issue; by default has 2 (Living and Private) and you can define new ones, but they seem to only have on/off settings (not multiple ranges as per TMG). It has no concept of Place parts like TMG. Media is attached OK, but Captions are thrown away; there is no Primary image concept. Charts are quite good, and very fast; edits to a chart are saved back into the original person data (which may be good or bad); charts can be saved in lots of file formats. Reports are a worry - there seems no way to tailor them e.g, Individual Narrative reports include the whole family (hardly individual!). It has a bunch of defined 'Query reports' and you can add your own Custom Queries. Website creation is simple but effective - nothing like Second Site, of course, but better than certain other programs I could name. But no FTP functionality, so you can't actually create a website, as SS can. I think if they implemented Roles & Witnesses properly, it would be ahead of RootsMagic (it certainly seems to avoid RM's stupidities), but that's just my feeling. But I'm not switching anytime soon, just watching these other things try to mature.... Don Ferguson -----Original Message----- From: tmg-refugees-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-refugees-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tom via Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2014 12:16 PM To: TMG-REFUGEES@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG-REFUGEES] Family Historian Can someone please shed some light on how well Family Historian 5, by Calico Pie Limited of London, England, works with U.S. genealogy information? The software �looks� enticing, but I worry a speck about terminology. For those TMG refugees that might be interested in a future product, I suggest you read the short FAQ section about TMG and Family Historian 5: http://www.family-historian.co.uk/support/faq-tmg. The answers provided are direct from Calico Pie. Tom *** To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the message subject and body. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message