tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post4194942239506954038..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: The Most Reviewed Genealogy ProgramsJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-50653599509991942122015-04-28T20:38:53.646-07:002015-04-28T20:38:53.646-07:00James,
Thanks for the good commentary on GenSoftR...James,<br /><br />Thanks for the good commentary on GenSoftReviews and my two articles.<br /><br />Regarding why there are reviews of programs that are no longer available and no longer supported: I would say it is because there are a good number of people still using these programs. They've used them for many years and because the program is so familiar to them and it works well for them, they give them 4 and 5 star reviews. <br /><br />But they do tail off after a while. PAF had only 12 reviews in 2014 and has none so far this year. Out of the reviews so far in 2015, only 13 are from unsupported programs, and many of the reviews includes a complaint that the program is unsupported which you'll see in the Mundia reviews.<br /><br />Louis<br /><br />LouisLouis Kesslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11704667321407909489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-70235438405786312182015-04-28T18:53:38.279-07:002015-04-28T18:53:38.279-07:00Part of it is once we(genealogists) have a program...Part of it is once we(genealogists) have a program that works for us we are slow to change. I helped run a computer group at my society for a fair number of years and found that people were slow to upgrade versions of their program unless there was a feature in the new version they really wanted, kept using Personal Ancestral File for years after it was not supported and probably it was only the removal of the program from the site that stopped more people using it. people don't want to face the learning curve with a new program and the trauma of the conversion from one to another. I shifted from PAF to FTM V1-7 then went to TMG V1-8 and while I am happy with it I have also had other programs on my computer partly to help others and also to be able to use a specific feature like a special report or cjhart in htose programs. I am now looking at Family Historian as a ossible substitute program.Helen V Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16418865928294578567noreply@blogger.com