[or-roots] Small - Online (as in free) program needed

[Leslie Chapman]

I am a late comer to this discussion as I have been off the net for a while mostly connected with my having just become a grandpa, but I want to throw out my two cents worth any way;
I tend to agree with the idea of just using the capabilities of FTM if they haven't succumbed to the omnipresent passion of computer program designers and totally screwed it up for your version.
I prefer register for descendant ordered as I think it is much clearer than NGS format.
I am not sure what you wanted as a downloadable program; Brother's keeper used to be a free decent program and as little time as I spent on it I still seemed to find it as good as FTM though I prefer the latter.  I do dislike the apparent tendency of FTM to seem to be out to make paper companies rich. The last time I created an all in one genealogy tree it was something like 86 by 75 feet and I can usually edit a thirty page genealogy report down to 25 pages or so by eliminating unneeded white space.
My method of choice to share my genealogy is to put it on CD or DVD if I am only sharing a portion.  If someone wants me to share all of my family file and associated information I prefer to download my stuff from my portable hard drive to theirs as it takes at least three DVD's to store all my genealogy stuff and five more for my history and biography stuff that isn't sorted by surname but by location..
I am hping sometime in the next few years to put together a few generations of my ancestors in a registry format with a lot of my old fotos and publish a limited run at Powell's books in Portland.
Les C    


 Subject: [or-roots] Small - Online (as in free) program needed
   
My wife has just discovered a cousin she never knew about.  They have been
corresponding now for about two weeks.  She [cousin] has never known her
genealogy and desires to know it before her passing [soon].

I need a small, and hopefully free, downloadable program to place about
500 people in for her.  All our data is in FTM 2014.

She will never be 'doing' genealogy with it, just seeing/studying it.

Any suggestions?

First of the week we will drive about six hours to meet her face-to-face
for the first time.  Both my wife and cousin are excited!!

Thanks for any help,

Fred F


  
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