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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: soc.roots,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Geneology
Keywords: Roots III, Other products
Message-ID: <47388@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 90 20:44:18 GMT
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www@sppy00.UUCP (Victor Shakapopolis) writes:
>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
...
>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.

Roots III is published for the IBM PC by Commsoft of Mountain View,
California.  That should be enough to get you started.

>What are some of the better Macintosh geneology programs?  

The best by far, IMHO, is PAF.  It's available from the Mormon Church,
but isn't Mormon specific (i.e. you can turn off the Mormon specific
fields.)  Most of the other programs are ports of MS-DOS programs and
suffer from the usual horrible user interfaces, or are quick hacks by
someone who didn't spend a lot of time doing it.  PAF is $35 by phone by
dialing 800-537-5950 in the US, or 801-240-2584.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"