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Heredis give you to option to purchase from their site or purchase through the App Store. I found Reunion didn’t provide a particularly good draft story.

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What I like to do for my blog is have the software generate a fairly reasonable outline of an individual and then I can rewrite the outputted draft story of the individual into a form I like better and add other details. The other issue I had with Reunion was the reporting. Taking the time to reconnect the media is time-consuming and frustrating. The bad, I’ve not been successful importing a GEDCOM file into Reunion and having the media associated with a source connecting properly.

The process for my handling sources and applying those sources to facts that I enter for individuals is really good. I used Reunion 11 for several weeks and feel that I learned the good and the bad of it.

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I use a Mac, and I’ve never been happy using a Windows product on my Mac using windows emulation products.

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Author Don Taylor Posted on JanuJanuCategories Reviews, Tech Tuesday Tags Family Tree Maker, Family Tree Maker 3 for Mac, Heredis, Roots Magic Leave a comment on Family Tree Maker for Mac 3.1 Back to Heredis & Marion Reed RoosĪs many of you know who have been following my frustrations with software, trying to find the perfect tool to manage my genealogical research, I’ve tried many different products (Roots Magic, Mac Family Tree, Heredis, Reunion, and more). So far, I’m very happy that Family Tree Maker is back and I am looking forward to using it over the next year or so. In any event, I’m hoping that Ancestry’s on-line tree isn’t the master of all. I may just upload what I have with FTM and then break the link. I haven’t tried to upload and sync my FTM files with Ancestry, yet and I am not certain that I will do so.

I liked navigation through family members a bit better with Heredis, but the FTM method is fine. (For example, a calendar of all my ancestors who had birthdays in January.) Also, and probably the biggest thing, was that there are templates for sources that follows Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Evidence Explained.

There were many features that Heredis didn’t have that I was really happy to have back, such as a calendar function. Clearly designed for Mac, all the features worked. I began working on one of my projects, Project Drexl, and saw how nice it was to work with. I was immediately reminded of how much I liked Family Tree Maker Mac 3 when I reviewed it in December 2013. I exported my two Roots Magic files to GED format then imported them into FTM.

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The upgrade from FTM 14 for windows and FTM 3 for Mac was free. Then I received the notification that Family Tree Maker has been re-released by MacKiev. I decided on using Roots Magic 7, exported my two large research files from Heredis to GED format, importing them into Roots Magic, then began working with them. I finally decided to drop Heredis because of this and use something else for my 2017 research. It seems that details that I cut and pasted from a website, which has several different fonts and hyperlinks seem to be the culprits. When I zoom into some of my sources, the system crashes, sends a crash report to Apple (who is supposed to send it on to Heredis) and then allows me to restart. I settled on Heredis and have used it for the past year but I’ve been having problems with it. I tried several other products, Mac Family Tree, Reunion, and Heredis. Besides the weird file locations (C: and F: drives), I never could get the fonts correct and details displayed in inconsistent ways. I wished that Legacy Family Tree had a Mac version and I wanted Roots Magick 7 to have a real Mac product and not a runtime windows version. So, I decided to search for alternative products. I did consider staying with Family Tree Maker 3 for Mac however, I kept having problems the synchronization of my tree with Ancestry was corrupting my database. In December 2015, I ranted about how unhappy I was that Family Tree Maker was being dropped by Ancestry as a product. I’m returning to Family Tree Maker for Mac.

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