Genealogy Chat

I just started researching a few weeks ago and already I am getting a lot of information together about my tree. My main problem now is that I can't find a way to best organise it, I have joined ancestry and have put my tree onto there but it annoys me that I can't store some of the info I have relating to specific people that I want to. Are there any really good pieces of software out there that anyone can recommend, or do people have other ways of organising all their info?

Most of us have family tree maker 2005 or 2006 - you can buy this for about a tenner on some sites or the 2006 with 3 months ancestry sub for less than £30. You can put notes, make trees, reports, add photos, images even music if you are inclined and you get a free website to transfer all your info to. Try Play*com site or TWR Computing.

I have to echo what Heather says. I use FTM and the variety of ways and volume of information you can store for each person/family/marriage etc is beyond belief. Glen

PAF can be downloaded free from the LDS site. Reg

hiya, hear hear!!! i quite agree with Heather & Glen, I have used FTM for 10yrs, and in a word, Its Brilliant!!! try www*familytreemaker*com replace* with dots, it will give you some idea of what it will do HTH Julie

I use the paf 5.1 and find that I can store all my findings Ok.. I type up the census into there so at a glance can see if I have not found a family on the Census..I type up all the Births Death's and marriages... I also have the paf companion which is a brilliant additional tool to run alongside the paf... I make the family's notes to a Register and I down load that from the pc to a pocket computer.. (windows compatible) so whenever I visit a records Office.. I have all the families info with me so it makes it easier to track families when they are moving around lots.... Mo

I use Family Historian v3 and am very happy with it. I've not used FTM so don't know what the differences are between the two. Maybe someone could tell us!

And I use Brother's Keeper (BK6.2) and have been doing for about 10 years. I saw FTM being used, about a year ago, and was surprised at some of the things it couldn't do, compared to BK6. However, that may have been because the person showing me had probably never read the instruction manual and was not getting the most from the program!!! I will say that the charts produced by FTM are better than those I can produce (more flexible), but then I would never want to produce a tree chart in any case........too much paper required. That chap......Ron from the tree printers people, recommended another program, above FTM (and he is in the position of having tried out a lot of different ones). But for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it!!!! It began with G and was a fairly short single word, I think......Anyone know????????????? A plus for FTM is that a lot of people use it so if you are stuck with it someone on here will come to your aid! Merry