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From: www@sppy00.UUCP (Victor Shakapopolis)
Newsgroups: soc.roots,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac Geneology
Keywords: Roots III, Other products
Message-ID: <1051@sppy00.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 90 20:46:15 GMT
Organization: OCLC, Dublin Ohio.
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Quite awhile ago Brian Leverich posted to comp.sys.mac about a geneology
program called Roots III.  He refered to it as...

}COMMSOFT up in the Bay Area somewhere publishes Roots III, which is
}arguably the cadillac of genealogy packages.  If you buy it from them it
}will cost around $300 (depending on what utilities you order), but you
}can save $50 by ordering from one of the mail order catalogues.

}I used PAF until I had about 2500 people on file, then switched to Roots
}because I wanted the fancy footnoting and book-generating features it has.
}(That's right - Roots III will turn your data into a formatted,
}publishable family history...)

Well I've been searching high and low for a phone number or some sort of
reference to this company.  Does it still exist?  I'd love to get more
information on Roots III but I can't find anything.

What are some of the better Macintosh geneology programs?  I need one that
prints nice family trees in a tree style format.  Lester Productions
(717) 697-1378 has a hypercard stack called 'Reunion' which printed very
nice trees (in their flyers anyway :-)) but I'd like to check out all the
packages before I make a purchase.  Other features would be text data
(wills) and maps, kind of a family history.  I'm no expert on this so I'd
very much like some help, like features I should consider but am
currently unaware of.

Thanks in advance...
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  William W. White                   {att|pyramid|killer}!osu-cis!sppy00!www
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