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What software do you all use? (self.genealogy)

submitted 1 year ago by eyolf to c/genealogy

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How do you manage your trees? Myself, I use webtrees. The interface may be a bit "old" and the handling of media in particular could have been better, but it's an online solution (so I have my tree available all the time), it's open source, it's 100% standards compliant, and the community is wonderful, so ... What is your favourite programme?

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[–] tejaco 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm used to Ancestry and they haven't pissed me off, yet, so that is my main database for my trees. I used to have whatever the software was that interacts with Ancestry, but I abandoned it years ago and just use the web interface. I am on Wikitree and Family Search as well, of course.

I also love things about Family Search and when I want to send someone a link to, say, a census page, I find the page there and use that link, since not everyone uses Ancestry. My main complaint, for myself, is that on Family Search I have encountered people with bad data who ignore the good data and if I make a change, they change it back. This is going on on two of my lines and it's so frustrating. On one of the lines the person who keeps making changes is herself Mormon, and rather than fight with her, I've decided to let her have Family Search, so long as she doesn't take down my document explaining why I'm right. So far, so good.

[–] eyolf 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly why I'm wary of Family Search. In principle, I love the "open source" character of it, but that also means that one is not in control of one's own tree.

[–] GlintingKingfisher 1 points 1 year ago

What do you think of WikiTree? Similar crowdsourced setup, but from what I've seen they require supporting documentation and actual conversation and concensus before anything is changed.