As I said, to me it is a good resource to feed my primary Reunion file. It's also found some census records I hadn't located. So as far as I'm concerned it paid for the time it took to set it up (remember it was a gift). I had never been able to find any records on it, but by matching both MyHeritage and FamilySearch it found it. The one major plus is that right after I uploaded my gedcom, I got a hint on my late mother-in-law and I pulled up her marriage license.
It does look like they are planning an iOS app, but not a major factor for me. Yes, it looks like crap, but I have no plans to share it. It may be a popular app on the Windoze platform but it needs lots of work for the Mac. Others have done this before and it's always a lousy alternative to a native application.ĭid I mention that it likes to crash? Played with it for about one hour and it crashed three times.
I tried it and, while it seems to have a decent feature set, it crashed once and never ran properly afterwards. It IS the Windows version of the app running on a bundled version of WINE (a Windows emulator, more or less). Does not appear to have a companion iOS app.ĭid I mention that it likes to crash? Played with it for about one hour and it crashed three times. A strange requirement if all you want to do is use it locally on just your Mac. Then you can't use it at all, period, unless you create a MyHeritage "free" account. Information that I see in our main family view is spread across three tabs. They didn't even bother to relabel commands, so you have Exit instead Quit, Options instead of Preferences, etc. There were a couple of suggestions made, but none of the programs I tried felt as fully featured as Legacy Deluxe, the admittedly long-in-the-tooth PC-only program I had been using previously.Really! Do you think that they could have made it look like a Mac application? No.it's Windoze like in looks and operation. Lately, I have been feeling the itch to start digging into the past once more, to renew my membership on, and to start chipping away at some of the “brick walls” I had hit when researching before.Ī few months ago I sent a plea out on Twitter asking if anyone knew of a good genealogy program which would work with Mac. Little did I know that it would be so difficult to find a genealogy program I’d want to use when the desire to start up struck again. In the past couple of years I’ve made myself slow down on family research, and during that lull I switched to Mac. The more I learn, the more I start to understand my ancestors the more I understand my ancestors, the more connected I feel to the things I have inherited. Genealogy has given names in old family bibles a chance to live again, even if only in my imagination it has explained family secrets, revealed heroes and scoundrels, stories worth retelling, and stories some might consider better forgotten. Over the years I have spent countless hours online and in libraries researching and amassing a huge collection of data I have truly enjoyed discovering information, pictures and stories that have helped me learn more about my ancestors’ lives. For me, genealogy has been as much a passion as it was a hobby my maternal grandmother and my uncle started researching their Meador and Bridwell lines years ago, and when I became an adult I picked up where they had left off, expanding the search for my father’s family, the Lipsetts and Hublers, as well.
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