CompuServe Messages

There is a spell checker here online that will check anything you are writing – in any text editor. I forget the name, but I'll get it for you if someone doesn't come to my rescue before I find it. I've not found an Amiga genealogy program that comes close to doing what I want. Your Family Tree is the better of the ones I've checked, but it doesn't make adequate reports, have adequate footnoting and management of documentation, and they have been writing GEDCOM for at least two years now. To the best of my knowledge, it is still not available. I have RootsIII on the bridgeboard. It has lots of failings, too, but in less critical areas. It's a bear to learn, and the interface is a holdover from CP/M days, but you can document every item in the database, can have dozens of text files on every individual, and it can print out your information in a complete book, with index and table of contents, and gives you a choice of several formats for the book, such as covering everyone from one generation in a chapter, or covering each family in a chapter, etc. None of the Amiga programs I've seen can do that. It also prints out footnotes or endnotes automatically, giving all of the documentation for each line item about each person. NORGEN has some nice features, but they didn't have GEDCOM and the version I tried was not very stable. I was beta-testing a different one that is not yet out. It does have GEDCOM, and you can use an AREXX program that lets you add documentation. I think it might have possibilities, but I can't say much about it until it is ready. Betty