Other log forms are available from websites, other books, etc. One of the books I have in my library is Emily Croom's Unpuzzling Your Past and its companion workbook with handy forms which can be removed and photocopied. You can then export the information to a GEDCOM file.Īt the moment, I can't honestly see me investing the time and effort to learn to use the program as I'm not sure whether I could adapt my existing system structure to work with it without re-formatting or re-entering a lot of data. When you are convinced that the people in various documents are members of your family tree you would transfer the information into the 'Family Knowledge' part of the database and link the people in different documents together with standard relationships. You can then analyse this research information in a number of ways (most of which I think you could replicate in FH). Within each document people are linked by relationships. A document can be a BMD certificate, census, GEDCOM file, or practically anything you can think of.
This appears to mean that you capture information from different sources into documents in a research database. These are used to collect information, store it in a logical and searchable way (data) and to help you make assumptions and decisions to produce family trees (knowledge)' 'GRS is made up of three main components: The idea is that it is 'document based' rather than 'person based'. I can't honestly say that I have explored every facet, mainly because life is too short to learn to use this program properly! Unfortunately, like many 'research oriented' programs it tries to do much more than be a relatively simple research aid (which is what I want). I saw Deltadrive at Bracknell, too, and in a moment of madness invested in a copy. If anyone sees anything like this for Windows, I'd appreciate hearing about it - at some point I will get a new machine which will be able to run both FH and some flavor of research manager at the same time. The disadvantage, of course, is that while he is on the Windows computer, I cannot refer to my data on Fanily Historian. The advantage for me in using GenScribe would be that I could work on my research tasks while my husband is using the Windows computer. Looking at the screenshots, it seems that this program is the kind of thing I have been looking for.
From there I investigated other links, ended up back at Cyndi's list - you get the idea. Today I got an email newsletter from the US magazine Family Tree Newsletter which had a software review. I have been reading several books on managing one's research and wondering why we have so few family tree programs, yet so few research management tools. Jane said in her original post that she was looking for a good research management system.
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