1bassoon Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Hoping someone here has some insight! My dh has a HUGE collection of genealogy records - on both sides of our family. He loves researching and collecting things, but really needs a desktop program to organize what he's found. I was all set to buy him Family Tree Maker, but THEN I realized they are discontinuing it as of 12/31. Ugh. Anyone have something they like? He runs a MacBook Pro. So far, I'm looking at Ancestral Quest and MacFamily Tree, but neither one grabs me. Help? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachskittles Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 http://www.rootsmagic.com/Mac/ I have this program for Windows, as does my MIL and her sister. If the Mac version runs as well as the Windows version, I would recommend this product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 Can I ask what you like about it? And can it store/document scans of obituaries, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I had Reunion for Mac. It was an ok program, but updates cost $. I decided to stick with Ancestry, since I subscribed to it anyway. You can add your own records either from scans of paper documents or other web based resources. I do keep PDFs of all the ancestry records in a separate, non-ancestry folder, so that I always have access to them independent of ancestry. Ancestry for the U.S. had so much, but I am not impressed with international stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 RootsMagic! Love it! I run it on my macbook air.http://www.rootsmagic.com/mac/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippen Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I had Reunion for Mac. It was an ok program, but updates cost $. I decided to stick with Ancestry, since I subscribed to it anyway. You can add your own records either from scans of paper documents or other web based resources. I do keep PDFs of all the ancestry records in a separate, non-ancestry folder, so that I always have access to them independent of ancestry. Ancestry for the U.S. had so much, but I am not impressed with international stuff. Ancestry went to a new format a few weeks ago, and it's much more complicated to use. Many, many unhappy customers. I'm still using it, but I'm switching over from FTM to Rootsmagic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandra Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Ancestry went to a new format a few weeks ago, and it's much more complicated to use. Many, many unhappy customers. I'm still using it, but I'm switching over from FTM to Rootsmagic. Did it? I haven't been on recently. Thanks for the update! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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