Your roots are showing: the quest for genealogy - and software to store it in.(The Desktop Critic) (Software Review)(Column)(Evaluation)

From: Macworld | Date: June 1, 1995| Author: Pogue, David | Copyright information

Several commercial and shareware packages for researching genealogies are reviewed. Itasca Softworks' $99 MacRoots is very simple to use and performs simple tasks well, but the interface is slightly awkward and the program does not go far enough. (M)agreeable Software's Family Events 1.5, priced at $35, lets users fill in screens for each research document or family event and double-checks math on its own. It is very flexible, but some will find it confusing. Diana Eppstein's $10 shareware Ge...

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