From: Billaboard@gmail.com   
      
   In message , Enno Borgsteede   
    writes   
   >Hello Bill:   
   >   
   >> Inspired by the thread "Uploading Family tree for scrutiny by   
   >>family", can I ask for any suggestions, please.   
   >>  A relation in the USA wants to swap data with me. She is on paper, I   
   >>have loaded some data into My Heritage. I am on Windows, she does have   
   >>some sort of Mac laptop.   
   >>  Is there any software, preferably free, that will take a Gencom file   
   >>and show and print a very compact basic tree, with individual entries   
   >>being clickable to bring up an information sheet  about that individual.   
   >   
   >I don't know what software you use, but if she installs Gramps, you can   
   >send her a GEDCOM and have her work with that. Gramps works on Linux,   
   >OS-X, and Windows, so it should work, but installing it on a Mac may be   
   >a bit difficult, because it's not standard, I think. I don't have a   
   >Mac, so I can't check, but this is what I remember from seeing it.   
   >   
   >You mentioned My Heritage, but sharing a tree is not free over there,   
   >so I suggest that you try Ancestry or Geneanet. On both, you can upload   
   >a GEDCOM and invite someone else to visit and work on your tree, and   
   >you can both do that with a free account.   
   >   
   >Here on the European continent, I use Geneanet, because it runs in my   
   >language, and because it shows which persons have been modified, so   
   >that you can see which changes she made, if you allow her to.   
   >   
   >Regards,   
   >   
   >Enno   
      
   Thanks to Enno and everyone else who has answered.   
      
   As I am sure people will realise, it takes time to load and evaluate   
   each program or method and, so far, I haven't settled on a system that   
   meets my needs. I have dipped a toe into Legacy (their videos are fixed   
   size and don't fit my laptop screen) and revisited Gramps amongst   
   others. I will try Ancestry and Geneanet, but the American cousin wants   
   to stay on paper rather than enter data into a computer.   
      
   What has started to annoy me is My Heritage. Not only does it ask for a   
   subscription every time I try to do something a little more than very   
   basic, but it has started to infest other sites, such as ebay, with its   
   targeted advertising.   
      
   I had hoped that a Gedcom to html conversion would be the answer, but   
   the two I have tried both produce the index plus a number of other small   
   files, so don't seem to provide the "overall picture" that is what I   
   want. Another one dumped me into the long forgotten Microsoft "dll   
   hell". It really shouldn't be necessary to register different versions   
   of dll's or ocx's in this day and age.   
      
   I am surprised it is so hard to find this. I originally entered the data   
   from this side of the Atlantic by taking the scans I was sent of a large   
   paper family tree, linking them together and then manually entering them   
   into a program. It was after this that I heard  from the American cousin   
   with her rival paper family tree.   
      
   I find it odd that I haven't quickly found a program that can take my   
   gedcom files and create a large virtual family tree. My laptop or tablet   
   could then "hover" over this to give me a zoomable and navigable window   
   into this tree to enable views of either the big picture or detail.   
      
   Maybe a View like this does exist under a name I haven't sussed out in   
   one or more of the genealogy programs. If so, I have no problem with a   
   one off fee, but not a monthly subscription, to use it.   
      
   Thanks again for all the help. It is appreciated and I will carry on   
   testing.   
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   Bill   
      
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