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From: Gil and Susie Cancio <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Informational query
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:50:05 -0700
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Stan Jacobs wrote:
> This is a query regarding "general" genealogy information that is on the market "for sale" (cd's,
> dvd's).
>
> I have been a F.O. user for years and am currently usinng Rootsmagic - with no intent on changing.
> I am wanting to know if it is necessary to have the Family Tree Maker software installed on a
> computer in order to make use of any of their discs that they sell? I don't want to purchase their
> discs if I can't easily open it and work with its contained information. Thought some of the
> professionals that monitor this list could easily & briefly answer this. Thank you.
>
> Stan
>


You don't need to have their software as I recall from past experience.
HOWEVER, please be aware that the information they sell on these cd's
are very suspect.

I had just started genealogy and used their online tree(I think it was
one world or such). The sad part is that fully a year prior to the cd
being published for the first time, I'd tried to get the tree removed
because I found the information I'd received from a gedcom to be false
(I believed everyone researched the info....sigh). I have to this day
never been able to remove that false information from their databases,
nor cd's even though I've demanded it in writing several times. That
information that is false still circulates in all sorts of gedcoms
worldwide and has my name on it. Hard lesson. Use cautiously as a
guide if you wish, be be forewarned, every source needs to be checked by
yourself.


--
Happy Hunting,
Susie Cancio (nee Gray)
Researching focus:
Gray, McCurdy, Swift
Whisler, Aldrich, Linehan

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