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From: "Chuck Wolfram" <>
Subject: Re: Ancestral Quest or Other
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:39:10 GMT
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I don't recommend FTM. I used to use it. You could create a GEDCOM and use
a Gedcom converter (obtained elsewhere than at FTM) and create a webpage.
However, if you create a web-page from inside FTM it will go onto their
website, and in one of their formats. Not to mention the agreement you have
to consent to. It is easy to use and it makes some terrific box charts.<g>

I do not know what Ancestry Quest offers, but it does depend upon what type
of reports you would want to publish. I can only speak as to one program,
TMG (the one I use), and that will make webpages of any report you want to
make. You can, if you wish, customize almost everything, including every
sentence.

What reports do you want to publish? Does AQ give you Indented Descendant
Narratives? By that I mean the Henry, Modified Henry, d'Aboville Reports?
TMG has those, and others. Does it give you a straight Ahnentafel, either
in narrative or columnar (meaning only the facts themselves BMDB without
narrative) format, as well as a Reverse Register?

You usually should include cites in those reports you publish. One of the
things I disliked about UFT is that they would not allow cites in their
Descendant Narratives. FYI, UFT has been discontinued, and is one of the
better programs. Does AQ allow cites to everything? How do they look? Do
the cites conform to the samples provided in the books by Richard Lackey and
E.S. Mills? (FTM usually doesn't; they usually do in UFT and TMG).

Chuck Wolfram

Orig <> wrote in message:

> I am primarily interested in publishing the results on the internet, as
> opposed to printed reports.
>
> I have not tried the big name programs (FTM for example) and wonder if I
am
> missing a lot in not buying one of these.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Thanks, Orig
>
>


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