I know this does not answer your question, but you can visit both product web sites, where the features available are described and often illustrated.
Also both products are available in free download trial format.
http://www.rootsmagic.com/RootsMagic/
http://www.family-historian.co.uk/tour/
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FH has some very powerful features, not least the ability to add people to a tree by adding them on a diagram. At the end of the day it's going to be the program you get on best with.
FH has a 30 day trial and Roots Magic has a free version cut down version.
What I would recommend is spending some time entering a small sample of your information into both programs. Get a feel for how both work at the end of the day a few hours spent working with both will show you which one suits you best. Check out the Auto-Source Tool on FH, which if you have a lot of information to enter can really help in making sure your data is correctly sourced from the beginning and the Ancestral Sources add on which allows entry of Census information to be easily and quickly done.
Personally . . . . I would go for FH everytime, not least because of the tremendous users who hang out here and on the list who are always ready to help people get to grips with the program.
FH has a 30 day trial and Roots Magic has a free version cut down version.
What I would recommend is spending some time entering a small sample of your information into both programs. Get a feel for how both work at the end of the day a few hours spent working with both will show you which one suits you best. Check out the Auto-Source Tool on FH, which if you have a lot of information to enter can really help in making sure your data is correctly sourced from the beginning and the Ancestral Sources add on which allows entry of Census information to be easily and quickly done.
Personally . . . . I would go for FH everytime, not least because of the tremendous users who hang out here and on the list who are always ready to help people get to grips with the program.
Jane
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My Family History : My Photography "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."
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Thank you both. I was trying to avoid the 'download and experiment' stage by finding out what the differences were by their likes or dislikes. I figured one of them would strike a nerve; but I guess diving in is the only way to do it.
Programs are starting to look so much alike nowadays in what they do, that you just know it's in the little details you don't notice until you have 200+ people loaded and you have one with that weird situation (it never happens at the beginning) that makes you wish you had this or that feature; or you decide to do something different later on and realize you don't have an ability to do whatever.
Thank you again.
Programs are starting to look so much alike nowadays in what they do, that you just know it's in the little details you don't notice until you have 200+ people loaded and you have one with that weird situation (it never happens at the beginning) that makes you wish you had this or that feature; or you decide to do something different later on and realize you don't have an ability to do whatever.
Thank you again.