Hi Ronni
Regrettably, she's right.
We run a genealogy business and have two Macs. Last year we bought a
second hand Toshiba laptop for the dual reason of (1) running some of
the many CDs that are now available (that usually have their own
proprietary Windoze 'viewers' associated with them) and (2) trying out
the very many genealogical software packages available for PCs. Prior
to that we'd been running the CDs on virtual PC, but we became sick of
the sluggishness and didn't want to pay for a full upgrade to OSX (and
it wasn't available at the time).
The good news is that Reunion is by far the best of all the available
software packages for any computer. The top seller in the PC world is
Family Tree Maker, which is really clunky and can't match Reunion in
many areas, such as charts.
Cheers
Mike
On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 09:09 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hello WAMUGers,
This question is for any Mac people researching their family history.
I gave my sister 'Reunion' and she has been researching our Family
History for some time.
She has run into a problem and I quote what she has said below :
"'Virtual PC'. It is apparently necessary for we Mac Owners to be able
to use the Historical Indexes CD's now available for Genealogical
researchers. All these CD's are made only for Windows - very silly!
A fellow researcher at the Genealogical Society, yesterday told me
about it when I was aghast to find they only operated on PC's."
Is this correct, will she have to use 'Virtual PC' on her beautiful
14" iBook OSX10.3.4 ?
She will not be happy if she has to install anything 'PC' on 'Big-i' !
Thanking you for any help.
Cheers,
Ronni
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