Dan, Boy I'd really hate to see your FLAMES (No offense intended). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan > Bateham > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 6:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Time for Legacy Lite? > > The following is posted to the List for ER. It's in response to many of > ER's > postings that have been made to this same List. It is NOT meant to be a > flame, but rather a few honest questions for ER and very few comments... > No > offense to anyone is intended, please don't take it that way... > > Feel free to delete this and to get on with your day. > Dan > > --- > ER, > > If you have been so unhappy with Legacy since the year 2000 (five years > now?), can you not find something better? - rather than continue > negativity > here? Or perhaps offer something constructive? Repeating the same litany > of > claimed problems for years, you do seem to be so focused, repeating a now > predictable litany, it comes across as just complaining while unable to > offer a solution. Generally, I believe, others seem to be able to get > things > done with this same software, and do so quite happily. > > It seems to me, in my opinion, that most here are quite happy with Legacy > (even with minor glitches at times) because it is the best. > > I believe you will not find the perfect software program - of any kind on > any platform - that will always work perfectly in all situations and do > exactly and precisely and only what you want it do, every time. > > If I had projects on hold for years, I would not lay blame on the tool I > thought was inadequate, or even on the tool maker for not making the > perfect > tool for my particular project: I would however either find a different > tool, or admit the project that could wait that long was never important > to > me in the first place. > > I'm curious about one thing, if you're still with me: If Legacy is so > inadequate for you, what have you found that works better? Please share. > > As for the occasional minor glitch, I believe, the Legacy programmers are > doing a wonderful job fixing those as they find them. They do this even > while offering a highly useful, inexpensive, yet up-to-date product that > meets the needs of many family historians and genealogists. And happily, I > would guess for many, they've even added features that are useful to a > very > wide range of people. This includes those that speak a language other than > English, those that would like some guidance in their research, or might > even want something with more bells than a plain typewriter for typing up > a > quick gedcom. They've even worked to make Legacy compatible with other > programs that their users might like to work with (such as even more > charts, > research suggestions, or manipulation of data). In my opinion, they offer > the best product for genealogy research, bar none. > > In short, can you offer actual solutions? Perhaps constructive comments > are > useful. -- If not, can you find something better? Maybe even just less > negativity. -- And, why five years of putting off a project, really? > > Believe it or not, I do wish you luck and progress in your delayed > projects. > Dan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "E.Rodier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 12:04 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Time for Legacy Lite? > > > > Are Legacy staff planning a full-featured program on CD or a free > version > > to replace 10 mb PAF 5 last updated 3.5 years ago? $40 for Legacy > TreeDraw > > and $20 for Legacy Companion is a lot to spend for charts compared to > > build-in wall charts in $30 to $60 genealogy programs. > > > > Transer of data to or from Legacy 6 needs to be carefully checked > because > > Legacy 6 does not automatically recognize the note spacing of other > recent > > programs. Custom data entry in Legacy 6 is lost in GEDCOM imports by > other > > programs. > > > > When WinME and WinXP were pre-loaded on retail computers, Legacy staff > > were working with Win98 and Win2000 computeres. They didn't see > variations > > reported by paying customers of Legacy 3 and 4 for up to 18 months. > > > > I didn't buy 16 bit Legacy 2 because pictures had long file names from > > March 1996 but have downloaded 127 public builds of Legacy 3-4-5-6 since > > Feb 2000. Early Legacy 3 customers were charged a second time after Dec > > 2000 for Deluxe Legacy 3. Most of the time, the intended project was on > > hold hoping for different options in the Legacy Narrative report. Now > the > > delay is with Legacy 6 book options that do not work as expected. > > > > Geo Database added in Legacy 5, Research Guidance in Legacy 6 and > multiple > > languages are not useful to me. Improvements in reports and built-in > > charts were discussed on the list when Legacy 3 was released about the > end > > of Feb 2000. Extra cost addons were a big surprise in December 2000.
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