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|    Graeme Wall to Tony Proctor    |
|    Re: Compact Family Tree    |
|    07 Mar 19 10:59:28    |
      From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk              On 07/03/2019 10:26, Tony Proctor wrote:       > 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.       >              Not annoyed at all, it's very interesting.                     --       Graeme Wall       This account not read.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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