Hi
It's me again - the lurker and lumper.
I hate to defend TMG because it is slow and old fashioned in its user
interface but it does have one advantage over Legacy that this group has
highlighted for me. That is it all works. The latest version of Legacy
appears to me to be full of bugs in crucial areas notably the new source
writer. Also I have just spent a few hours messing about with this very
attractive feature with a gedcom imported from TMG and it is not possible to
merge an imported source with a similar source created by the source writer
without losing the imported source detail. Consequently it would be a major
rewrite to move from TMG to Legacy for me as I am a source lumper and have
about 10000 people in my tree. Assuming each person features in 2 or 3
censuses on average for example there is 20-30000 source details I would
have to recreate just for starters. Perhaps that is something your cousin
should consider. It's certainly putting me off.
As for the software comparison table I never believe self-publicity - I
believe there is a similar table on the Wholly Genes website! And who uses
the alarm clock anyway? TMG has unlimited nameable flags (tags) which can
take multiple one character values which is a far superior system to Legacy
but the table just says tags = yes for both programs. Also the main person
screen shows all the applicable events and related people so you don't have
to click in different places to see them. One of the best features of TMG
is a sister program called Second Site which is a customisable web site
creation tool which operates directly on the TMG database and is far
superior to the Legacy web page facility.
To be fair I like the way Legacy is fast, the source writer will be
fantastic when it is finished and working and I like the mapping feature
although it would be a mountainous amount of effort to use it as it doesn't
recognise most of my locations unless I prod it hard. The Research Guidance
is too US oriented to be of much use to me and anyway I prefer to think for
myself.
Still lurking and pondering but maybe the grass isn't always greener.
regards
Bruce McArthur
Newcastle upon Tyne
Northumberland
England
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