Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

17 Jan 2013 18:02:06

Euan Williams

Is any member prepared to argue for a particular Mac application to carry on while the "hugely appreciated and advanced" Family Historian (PC only) remains off-limits without Parallels-Fusion-Bootcamp-VirtualBox and a copy of non-OEM Windows? (Crossover-Wine doesn't work with current versions of FH.)

We have a number of family history researchers within WaMug, and your responses are eagerly sought !
Thanks in advance.

Re: Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

17 Jan 2013 22:14:13

Trevor Hewson

The only FH program I have used is Reunion from Lester Productions. I would thoroughly recommend it. Their e-mail support has always been excellent on the few occasions I have called upon it.

Re: Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

18 Jan 2013 09:31:10

Douglas Cheney

I am using Mac Family Tree which is a good program, and another one I have used is iFamily for Leopard which I gave a short talk on a Dorchester some time ago

Re: Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

19 Jan 2013 10:48:02

Mike Hart

We are using an old version of Reunion (8), which we still find very good. The latest version (for Mac OS 10.5 or newer) is getting good reviews. However we see that Family Tree Maker Platinum for Mac is now available (for ditto) and gets good reviews too. We wonder if anyone has tried that yet? We are thinking of upgrading or changing. Mike and Ann Hart

Re: Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

19 Jan 2013 11:26:44

Mark Ford

There is an interesting review of 7 here
If one has an iPad too then this looks promising: Mobile Family Tree Pro

Re: Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

20 Jan 2013 14:41:10

Steve Ryder

I am rather surprised that no mention has been made of Gramps, a free community based shareware project, which I have used since I ceased using Gene, an excellent Classic programme, which was to be rewritten for OSX, but unfortunately never made it.

Gramps is versatile, and seems to have most of the features of the commercial programmes, and must therefore be worth a trial, at least!

Re: Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

21 Jan 2013 17:45:54

Euan Williams

Well, that's a good bunch of suggestions and my contact has asked me to reply:

"And still the replies come in! What a wonderful network of people. Please thank them all for me. I do appreciate it. "

Thanks from me too, I hope we shall have a new member soon.

Re: Mac replacement for PC only "Family Historian"

3 Mar 2013 12:41:25

Mark Ford

...and a review of 14 here.