Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-10 Thread Rob Hubert
Guido Leeten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? > Well, that is the reason I do not SPEND any money on Legacy, they claim a > lot of things, but,... there are much better free programs, I u

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-10 Thread Guido Leeten
AIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? Jenny, I definitely am not "anti-Legacy". However, I am very discouraged by Legacy's lack of legitimate features. Both version 5 and version 6 wer

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? -TH

2007-09-08 Thread agh3rd
t: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 8:39 am Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? -TH While I am not an authority on genealogy or Legacy, unless you are only doing a direct line of descent or ascent, there would come a point where some step children would be blood relatives. A coup

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? -TH

2007-09-08 Thread marilyn E B
While I am not an authority on genealogy or Legacy, unless you are only doing a direct line of descent or ascent, there would come a point where some step children would be blood relatives. A couple who marries, each having children from previous marriages, and then have children of their own, may

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-08 Thread Ron Bernier
Jenny, I definitely am not "anti-Legacy". However, I am very discouraged by Legacy's lack of legitimate features. Both version 5 and version 6 were nothing more than additional bloat ware with no real features. The Geo-Database hasn't been updated since it was introduced in version 5, desp

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-08 Thread Jenny M Benson
Ron Bernier wrote Unfortunately the "it would require a complete program rewrite" has become the standard mantra for the Millennia folks. They want to stay competitive, but they refuse to offer any of the features that their competition does offer. Both TMG and Genbox offer a witness feature.

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread joe Martin
What was the route that Ultimate Fasmily Tree went down? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 6:37 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? -TH

2007-09-07 Thread agh3rd
:32 pm Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? -TH Legacy can handle all blood relationships including step without a problem. I wish everyone would please remember that genealogy and family history are two very different things. A scholarly genealogy is literally a l

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread Jim Keener
Well, that's it, I can't take anymore. I've been reading this negative stuff for two days now. I've been doing genealogy for 17 years and I don't think any of the other programs come even close to Legacy in what the software offers for the price we pay for the product. What in the world do you e

[LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? -TH

2007-09-07 Thread Alice Hawrilenko
Legacy can handle all blood relationships including step without a problem. I wish everyone would please remember that genealogy and family history are two very different things. A scholarly genealogy is literally a list of "begats." The "begats" with which most of us are familiar occur in the B

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread agh3rd
I hope I'm wrong but it seems to me that Legacy may be going down the same road Ultimate Fasmily Tree went down. -Original Message- From: Ron Bernier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 6:53 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Leg

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread Renee Zamora
listening in on their planning sessions. Renee Zamora www.harrisena.com - Original Message - From: "Ron Bernier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy? Renee, Unfortunate

[LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread Renee Zamora
Now that was a very logical and excellent point. You have made me re-think my position. I would think that should settle the matter. Now we should leave it up to Legacy to decide how it should be placed on the priority list. They know how it would affect programming issues and do-ability. Ren

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread Ron Bernier
Renee, Unfortunately the "it would require a complete program rewrite" has become the standard mantra for the Millennia folks. They want to stay competitive, but they refuse to offer any of the features that their competition does offer. Both TMG and Genbox offer a witness feature. Genbox

[LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread Renee Zamora
Wow, that's a hard thing to consider. I would hate to have to see the program all rewritten over link FTM 2008 just went through. But on the other hand is it worth it to get the things we want. I would love to have witnesses but I hear that it a requires a re-write to accomplish that. What I

[LegacyUG] Re: Legacy: Family History or Genealogy?

2007-09-07 Thread Evert van Dijken
>From the legacy help file "What is Legacy": "Legacy is a family history computer program ... etc." Legacy is allready much more then just a genealogy programm (see the Publishing Center in the report section) and that's how I like it. Evert > Should Legacy be developed along the lines of a Fa