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From: Duncan MacCallum <>
Subject: Re: [FHU] A Major Disappointment
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 09:02:56 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <007e01c20981$7c84bbe0$a8179fd4@home>


In message <007e01c20981$7c84bbe0$> you wrote:

> I was very disappointed to find that Family Historian cannot produce
> useful printed reports. I'm thinking of such reports as Family Group
> History, Individual History, Descendent Charts, etc.
>
> It seems that, in order to do this, the user is expected to learn how
> to write programs in Calico's own version of SQL, then design their
> own format using their preferred word processor, then work out how to
> write mail-merge commands to link the two together. Given the average
> user of genealogical database programs, I can't see many users
> bothering.

Something similar happened with Ancestry 2 on another platform some
6-7 years ago. All the bells and whistles you could wish for provided
you had skill/time to prepare user defined reports/layouts.
User base just gave up in the end and the project died :(

Couple of negative posting over in soc.genealogy.computing very much
along similar lines.

Cheers

--
Duncan MacCallum

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