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|    Tony Proctor to Bill    |
|    Re: Compact Family Tree    |
|    07 Mar 19 10:26:33    |
      From: tony@proctor_NoMore_SPAM.net              On 09/02/2019 16:28, Bill wrote:       > 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 have played a bit with free versions of various programs and have used       "Family Tree Builder", "WikiTree" and "Ancestral Quest" and downloaded about       > 7 other utilities to try, but without so far finding anything that displays       in the way that I had hoped.       >       > The programs I have tried mainly produce a screen with a few large boxes. I       would prefer just to have a scrollable screen full of just text in tight       > boxes with, say name and DOB, linked to the other family members.       >       >              Thanks for all the comments that appeared here while I was "out of the       country". It seems several of you have found the associated facebook group so       I'll put subsequent responses there to avoid cluttering this newsgroup up and       annoying other subscribers.              Tony              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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