Anyone using OS X for genealogy?

Feek · 11 Feb 2014 at 08:06

My sister has spent years researching our family history but it's all been done with paper and pen. I'd like to convert that to an electronic version.

There seems to be quite a wide choice of genealogy software for OS X.

Does anyone have any recommendations based on actual use? It's all very well reading reviews such as this but I'd like real world recommendations, especially as the winner of that review gets slated on Amazon.

Kevin Clark · 11 Feb 2014 at 12:20

Why not just make a free account on ancestry.co.uk and plug it all in to that? I've got 1300 people in mine with photos, dates, cross references, notes etc all in there for nothing. You only have to pay to use the search engine.

Feek · 11 Feb 2014 at 20:56

Not really sure I like the idea of doing it online, it just feels wrong.

Kevin Clark · 11 Feb 2014 at 21:27

You can make it public or private (and any living people are hidden) and it also makes it really easy for other relatives to see it.

Feek · 12 Feb 2014 at 08:13

It's not the privacy thing that bothers me, I'm just not a fan of web apps, I'd much rather have something running locally on my computer.