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From: "Stephen Hayes" <>
Subject: Genealogy software
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2004 20:49:30
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Liz wrote in a message to All:

L> From: "Liz" <>

L> Unfortunately a lot of software seems to be Americani'z'ed
L> (Americanised)

L> Examples:
L> + software wants us to write dates as month/day/year when we write
L> day/month/year
L> + software wants us to use "Letter" sized paper but we use A4 +
L> address fields allow only two letters for the state and we need to
L> enter 3 + telephone number fields are preformatted so we can't
L> enter ours + we are required to misspell words - 'color' instead of
L> 'colour' etc. + wonderful resources are included in software but
L> they are useless because they don't cater for the world (outside
L> America)

Which genealogy programs require that?

Steve Hayes
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