Today I worked on my PowerPoint’s for my Finding your Roots
Online course that I will be teaching tomorrow. I created a handout with the Google
tips and tricks on doing searches since I noticed a lot of people were writing
everything down during my prior class. I also added more screen views in my
Ancestry PowerPoint so that I didn’t have to stop my PowerPoint to show the
screen prints.
I worked on my PowerPoint for the April Genealogy program
that I will be doing on Software reviews. I was asked to review Family Tree
Maker, Legacy and Roots Magic. Even though I use Family Tree Maker I would
recommend Roots Magic. It is the cheapest and appears to be the easiest to use.
I like the ability to load the software onto a flash drive and being able to
take the software with you to public computers. If a person was to store their
database using Dropbox.com, then they would have access to their database too.
This makes the software package very appealing. Legacy seems very cumbersome to
use, it seems to me that to do simple tasks takes a lot of work. For example to
figure out the age of someone, you have to go to the function to do it, but in
FTM, it will display the person’s age as part of their record. I still don’t
like the way you source in Legacy but I do like the ability to create webpages
but Roots Magic does that too.
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