#Rootsmagic 7 vs legacy 8 software

(The subject of another long, ranting post entirely, which I don't have the energy for tonight.)

I do this because I have horrible results when I try to sync from Ancestry to my desktop program. I never, EVER save research results to the Ancestry tree - instead, I put the data and sources in the desktop program and sync it once a month or so. I upload a tree to Ancestry primarily for the ability to communicate with other researchers and to connect my DNA results. McKiev hasn't yet incorporated anything I've suggested, even though I had a major bug with the FTM 2017 rollout and tried to contact them multiple times to resolve it. Occasionally they incorporated some of the suggestions.

#Rootsmagic 7 vs legacy 8 software

About once a year I send it to the software developer. I primarily use Family Tree Maker, and I've had a wish list for it for a VERY long time. FTM, yea I just want to be able to click on one person at a time, no I donвЂ™t want to see how different branches of my family migrated as the years progressed. The maps they do put it are basically worthless. Maybe some Sliding bar timelines that show the movement of people on a map as the years progress.

IвЂ™m not talking minority report level human interface. Like being able drag and drop this guy who might be this other girls estranged father which will link this part of the tree to those other people, proving that amazing theory that everyone has loved hearing me talk about at work all week. I would like to be able to have a bucket of people I could link and disconnect and move around a map and have different versions of possible facts stored for when IвЂ™m theory crafting. Why is genealogy software so poorly developed? Any one have any recommendations? I have currently installed Rootsmagic 7 and Family tree maker. It's a small gesture but seriously, respect peoples' time & effort in helping you out. It's perfectly OK to ask for any info if you're looking for fresh leads, but you can help people to focus their efforts & look at the correct sources if you are more specific.

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