Here are the results of the little survey I ran last week. I'll probably do another one in a couple of months.
Many of you use more than one software. For most, it appeared that one was on your computer and one was in the cloud. For the people who used just one program only (that lives on your computer), I really hope you are backing it up on a flash/USB drive or into the cloud on Dropbox or BackBlaze or Carbonite or something. For those of you who only have it online, such as Ancestry.com....well, you scare me. Yes Ancestry is a big company. They've also done things with very little warning. And they have been bought a sold a couple of times. Please have your genealogy somewhere else too. And for the lone wolf who is using 5 genealogy programs....Aii yii yii! About 40% use FTM and 35% use Ancestry.com. Much of this is overlap as you probably upload your tree every once and a while to Ancestry. About 16% are on Legacy and 13% are on RootsMagic. This seems to follow the surveys that other genealogy based entities run. Reunion (a Mac program) had 11%. The rest were scattered, below 10%. [image: Inline image 1] What level of genealogy software user are you? 63% said you are intermediate. 86% feel that they are intermediate, advanced, or above. Most of you feel that you really know your way around your genealogy program. 77% know what diacritics are. Yay! (For those in the reading audience who don't know, diacritics are the letters with the accents and markings on them). However, only 26% of you use the diacritics in your genealogy program. As for the Character Sets (UTF-8, ANSI, ANSEL), 42% had an awareness of them (it was mentioned a few days before the survey). 34% had no idea what they were, and 24% knew what they were. It's a way the computer program codes what you've typed in (letters, punctuation, diacritics). 54% of you have been going genealogy for more than 13 years. [image: Inline image 2] For those who do more than one type of Portuguese genealogy (say you research your Italian side or your American branches), the results were a little different: [image: Inline image 3] Thank you all for doing my survey. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
