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Reply-To:     Lisa Oberg <lisanne@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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From:         Lisa Oberg <lisanne@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Attn: Mark Taylor
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Sorry to post to everyone, this bounced back to me.  Lisa :^)

Mark--

I am very interested in your program, but I am not familiar with MORE or
Org Plus.  As I recall from an earlier posting of yours Org Plus is
available from Blue Banner.  Can you tell me a little bit more about those
two programs.  Cost, etc.  I am very happy with PAF 2.1 [MAC] despite some
of the limitations that have been discussed here on ROOTS-L but
GEDCompanion sounds marvelous.

Lisa Oberg
lisanne@u.washington.edu

On Mon, 11 Jan 1993, Mark Taylor wrote:

> Tom, whenever I see a posting touting all the wonderful features of the
> $115
> Reunion program, I find it hard to resist mentioning that my $20 utility,
> GEDcompanion, provides many of those same features.
>
> These include detailed descendant listings for export to MORE and Org Plus
> for
> printing those "wallpaper roll" family tree charts.  In addition, it
> creates
> Ahnentafel files and detailed descendants listings that can be opened up in
> a word processor for publishing your family history.  It also exports tab-
> delimited text files of all names, places, and dates.  These "database"
> files
> can be imported into database and spreadsheet programs so that you can
> search through all your data for a name or place or sort by any parameter.
>
> In addition, because GEDcompanion is not Hypercard-based, and because I
> have
> focussed on optimizing the process, GEDCOM import is extremely fast, much
> faster than in PAF itself.  In a recent test, a file that took 2 minutes
> and
> fifteen seconds to import in PAF took just 17 seconds in GEDcompanion.
> And, as you say, Reunion is even slower than PAF.
>
> In summary, if you've been using PAF, and you're interested in publishing
> your family history, searching or sorting all your data in a spreadsheet
> or database program, or creating wall charts with organization chart
> packages
> like MORE, GEDcompanion is a fast, powerful, and inexpensive alternative to
> Reunion.
>
> You can order GEDcompanion for $20 from:
>
> Mark Taylor
> P.O. Box 2034
> Cupertino, CA 95015-2034





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