While it might be slightly out of date, Richard Wilson’s Comparison of Genealogy Software Programs is a good review and comparison of the various family history and genealogy software programs available.
He compares Ancestral Quest, Family Tree Legends, Family Tree Maker, GenBox, Legacy, Personal Ancestral File, Roots Magic, and The Master Genealogist.
As with all such programs, as you evaluate your various decisions, determine what it is you want to do before you decide. If you want simple, easy-to-use features to create simple family charts and trees, then stick with a simple program that will help you do what you want to do. If you are serious about your genealogy research, then choose a powerful computer program that will allow you to research from within the program to online services, allow multiple variations of reports to look for holes in your research, web page data export, and the ability add exhibits, reports, and photographs to your research files.
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Wilson’s Comparison of Genealogy Software Programs is Issue Number 164 published October 6, 2006, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy Resources, Genealogy Techniques categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 231 articles for our our family history blog.
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July 12th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Hi Lorelle,
Just wanted to let you know that the link to Richard Wilson’s comparison is giving a 404 message when you click on your link.
The comparison page is still there though.
July 15th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Thanks. It was one letter off. I had html and he uses htm. Ah, the dark ages of web pages.