They say that they are working on a true Mac version. This is not a true Mac version but a Windows version modified for Mac. The folks at MyHeritage have published a mac version of their free Family Tree Builder software. Probably either one alone is just fine for research but having both is not necessary. It got to the point where both were offering pretty much the same clues, so I decided to drop MH. But, over time, the search capabilities of both keep on improving. Early on with MH, it was finding some things that Ancestry hadn't turned up. For about three years, ending last year, I also had the premium version of MyHeritage. With regard to the rest of this discussion, I have had the premium version of Ancestry for many years. So, a couple times a month, I fire up FTM 3 and let it sync with the on-line file and.voila, I have copies of all found items now on my Mac locally and the docs are easy to find because of association with a person. FTM 3 syncs found documents very slickly. I use it as storage! Yes, I maintain nearly congruent trees in Reunion locally and on-line in Ancestry. One program has stayed on my Mac and that is FTM 3. I started using Reunion in 1994 and it has survived all of my nerd work. It's not horrible but it is a long way from wonderful, also. Guess that makes me gene software nerd or something! On a scale of 1 to 10 of all the stuff I've looked at, I would give this software a 5 or 6. Over the years, I have tried out most of the versions of most genealogy software on both platforms. I was just offering my observations/opinions about this software. I wasn't really responding to what you said. Yes the MyHeritage for Mac is a Windows version that will run on a Mac.Nope, actually a great day. As I said, to me it is a good resource to feed my primary Reunion file. It's also found some census records I hadn't located. So as far as I'm concerned it paid for the time it took to set it up (remember it was a gift). I had never been able to find any records on it, but by matching both MyHeritage and FamilySearch it found it. The one major plus is that right after I uploaded my gedcom, I got a hint on my late mother-in-law and I pulled up her marriage license. It does look like they are planning an iOS app, but not a major factor for me. Yes, it looks like crap, but I have no plans to share it. It may be a popular app on the Windoze platform but it needs lots of work for the Mac. Others have done this before and it's always a lousy alternative to a native application.ĭid I mention that it likes to crash? Played with it for about one hour and it crashed three times. I tried it and, while it seems to have a decent feature set, it crashed once and never ran properly afterwards. It IS the Windows version of the app running on a bundled version of WINE (a Windows emulator, more or less). Does not appear to have a companion iOS app.ĭid I mention that it likes to crash? Played with it for about one hour and it crashed three times. A strange requirement if all you want to do is use it locally on just your Mac. Then you can't use it at all, period, unless you create a MyHeritage "free" account. Information that I see in our main family view is spread across three tabs. They didn't even bother to relabel commands, so you have Exit instead Quit, Options instead of Preferences, etc. Really! Do you think that they could have made it look like a Mac application? No.it's Windoze like in looks and operation.
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