Desktop Dilemma Series Archives

Sep 7 2017

RootsMagic’s TreeShare for Ancestry–hopeful solution for those API errors?

1 Comment / Go-anywhere, paper-free solutions, Golden Egg Genealogist, New developments in the field / By Donna Cox Baker / 4 minutes of reading

UPDATE: The problem has been solved by the solutions presented here.

You’ve been waiting for me to make up my mind about the Big Three in my Desktop Dilemma Series, and I’ve been waiting for one last — and most important — evaluation: Can RootsMagic effectively sync with Ancestry.com? …

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Sep 10 2016

Syncing your genealogy software with online trees

5 Comments / Go-anywhere, paper-free solutions, Golden Egg Genealogist, Organizing for optimal efficiency / By Donna Cox Baker / 13 minutes of reading

For optimal effectiveness in ancestry research, our desktop genealogy software needs to share data (“sync”) with our online family trees. So, how well do the “Big Three” software packages sync? In this next installment of the Desktop Dilemma Series, we continue our side-by-side analysis of the Big Three — Family Tree Maker®, Legacy Family Tree®, and RootsMagic™.

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Aug 14 2016

Getting help from genealogy software: rating the “Big Three”

Leave a Comment / Go-anywhere, paper-free solutions, Golden Egg Genealogist / By Donna Cox Baker / 12 minutes of reading

Genealogy’s “Big Three” — Family Tree Maker®, Legacy Family Tree®, and RootsMagic™ — offer many tools for our research. How well, though, does each guide you in figuring out how to use the product? Do they help you get started? Describe the screens and fields you see? Guide you to deeper uses of the software? Do they help you? In this next installment of the Desktop Dilemma Series, we continue our analysis of the Big Three side by side, looking at genealogical software online help.

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Jul 10 2016

Citing sources: the Desktop Dilemma series

5 Comments / Digging for genealogical gold, Go-anywhere, paper-free solutions, Golden Egg Genealogist, Organizing for optimal efficiency / By Donna Cox Baker / 7 minutes of reading

This newest installment of the Desktop Dilemma series takes up the question of how the Big Three genealogy desktop software packages handle citing sources. How easy do they make it to leave an effective bread-crumb trail back to where you found your facts?

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Jul 1 2016

First impressions: the Desktop Dilemma series

4 Comments / Go-anywhere, paper-free solutions, Golden Egg Genealogist, New developments in the field / By Donna Cox Baker / 5 minutes of reading

In this first post evaluating our shared Desktop Dilemma, I look at first impressions. Which of the Big Three genealogy desktop software packages has dressed for success — Family Tree Maker, Legacy Family Tree, or RootsMagic? And does it matter?

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Jul 1 2016

The genealogy desktop software dilemma: Family Tree Maker, Legacy, or RootsMagic?

10 Comments / Go-anywhere, paper-free solutions, Golden Egg Genealogist, New developments in the field / By Donna Cox Baker / 4 minutes of reading

I am starting my family tree over. If I want to do it right this time, I must have the right tools. What genealogy desktop software can best support decades of intricate research and documentation? RootsMagic™? Family Tree Maker®? Legacy® Family Tree? I will begin to examine the “Big Three” products, feature by feature, until the best path becomes clear. And I encourage group participation.

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