I do have Tree Draw (ver 2.22) but its performance hasn't encouraged me
to go for version 3 yet. Perhaps Brendan has a view on this?
I do agree that many programs become bloated with non-essential features
and in that sense, I can live with the Legacy model of using/suggesting
separate programs to do stuff. However, I think a charting module should
be part and parcel of every Genealogy program and more than that - such
a charting module should be fully integrated with the database so that
clicking on a box in the chart would immediately access and allow
editing for all data for that individual. Some programs do this and I
think it is a great paradigm.
I do find a tendency amongst long experienced genealogists to deprecate
charts - as if there were something noble about working with all that
text data. I have a contrary view inasmuch I find charts an essential
feature of :-
1. Presenting one's work to others - not least to get them to part with
information!! I love it when a relative says " I did not know that so
and so were related like that, I have some old papers in the attic that
have his/her/their name in them, would you like them?"
2. So many of my ancestors seemed to take the same or similar names, I
just cannot separate them in my head and I need a picture to see if this
Duncan Campbell is related to that Duncan Campbell etc.
So - I am still looking for good charting software but basically feel
that Legacy should implement something better with version 6. If it
could do what I have suggested it should it would be worth $100 easily
to me - I have spent more than that on useless third party software!
Chris
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