Comments on: Want to Use a Windows Genealogy Application on Your Mac? http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/ Genealogy Software Tutorials for Mac & PC Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: V. Briggs http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/#comment-401 V. Briggs Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:51:04 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=43#comment-401 I like what I am reading about interfacing my Mac with a workable solution to make entries one can print out and save on Family Group and Pedigree sheets. Everyone I talk to is frustrated at having no way to create these sheets (for now living individuals) when they don't want to use actual paper and a typewriter because they are totally digitally oriented. I have a terrific new iMac which comes with the Intel processor, plus VMFusion which came free [with rebates] (just updated to 2.0.4). I'll just need to get a copy of Windows then to have a workable way to enter, save, AND PRINT current data on those FG&P sheets. I'll be excited to pass this along as there are 4 other families in my immediate group who have new Macs, but were frustrated (and have been in recent years) with no way to add/update family history data. The old-style legal-size sheets need to be updated to letter sized and then made digital, and this looks like the way to go. The current and upcoming generations don't want to pack around store those big heavy legal binders. They're already digital with mini "thumb drives" and no carbon typewriters, but they've also been hampered on how to move ahead. Meanwhile, the children are arriving and parents have not been able to complete/update their FG&P sheets. Hopefully, this will open a new vista for them. I'm also in favor for videos on this software subject. That's the quickest way to promote and teach this new media combo that you've suggested here. Let us all see it in action! Then we'll not just be believers, we'll be DOers, too! Thanks, Ben. Keep up the great work. I like what I am reading about interfacing my Mac with a workable solution to make entries one can print out and save on Family Group and Pedigree sheets. Everyone I talk to is frustrated at having no way to create these sheets (for now living individuals) when they don’t want to use actual paper and a typewriter because they are totally digitally oriented.

I have a terrific new iMac which comes with the Intel processor, plus VMFusion which came free [with rebates] (just updated to 2.0.4). I’ll just need to get a copy of Windows then to have a workable way to enter, save, AND PRINT current data on those FG&P sheets. I’ll be excited to pass this along as there are 4 other families in my immediate group who have new Macs, but were frustrated (and have been in recent years) with no way to add/update family history data.

The old-style legal-size sheets need to be updated to letter sized and then made digital, and this looks like the way to go. The current and upcoming generations don’t want to pack around store those big heavy legal binders. They’re already digital with mini “thumb drives” and no carbon typewriters, but they’ve also been hampered on how to move ahead.

Meanwhile, the children are arriving and parents have not been able to complete/update their FG&P sheets. Hopefully, this will open a new vista for them. I’m also in favor for videos on this software subject. That’s the quickest way to promote and teach this new media combo that you’ve suggested here. Let us all see it in action! Then we’ll not just be believers, we’ll be DOers, too! Thanks, Ben. Keep up the great work.

]]> By: Ben Sayer http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/#comment-400 Ben Sayer Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:58 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=43#comment-400 Thanks for the feedback Karen! I'll add it to my list of topics to cover. Thanks for the feedback Karen! I'll add it to my list of topics to cover.

]]> By: Karen Glass http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/#comment-399 Karen Glass Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:32:04 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=43#comment-399 You have my vote for videos on this software subject. I think your videos are great and very informative. I am interested to see how easy it would be to install and use. I would like to be able to share these videos with others who are skeptical about the possibilities. This will open up a new, more reliable computer experience for my PC-using family historian friends! You have my vote for videos on this software subject. I think your videos are great and very informative. I am interested to see how easy it would be to install and use. I would like to be able to share these videos with others who are skeptical about the possibilities. This will open up a new, more reliable computer experience for my PC-using family historian friends!

]]> By: Parallels Desktop 4.0 Was Released on Tuesday : MacGenealogist.com http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/#comment-398 Parallels Desktop 4.0 Was Released on Tuesday : MacGenealogist.com Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:02:30 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=43#comment-398 [...] happy to know that you can still run it on your Mac. As I wrote in July 2008 in an article titled, Want to Use a Windows Genealogy Application on Your Mac?, virtual computer software is the [...] [...] happy to know that you can still run it on your Mac. As I wrote in July 2008 in an article titled, Want to Use a Windows Genealogy Application on Your Mac?, virtual computer software is the [...]

]]> By: theKiwi http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/#comment-397 theKiwi Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:09:40 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=43#comment-397 Either way will work, as long as her Mac mini has the Intel chip in it (and isn't one of the earlier PowerPC powered minis. If she gets setup with either VM Fusion, or Parallels, then she can install PAF for free, and everything about the database and how it works would be identical. The costs of this would be purchasing the virtualisation software AND a copy of Windows. If you do the GEDCOM thing, then the costs are lower as she'd only need to install a Macintosh genealogy software like MacFamilyTree, or iFamily or Reunion - costing between $50 to $100. Then things would operate differently, and it would be more steps to send data back and forth than just moving the actual PAF file each time. If you just want her to be able to see it, but not enter any data herself, the GEDCOM file method would work fine. Roger Either way will work, as long as her Mac mini has the Intel chip in it (and isn’t one of the earlier PowerPC powered minis.

If she gets setup with either VM Fusion, or Parallels, then she can install PAF for free, and everything about the database and how it works would be identical. The costs of this would be purchasing the virtualisation software AND a copy of Windows.

If you do the GEDCOM thing, then the costs are lower as she’d only need to install a Macintosh genealogy software like MacFamilyTree, or iFamily or Reunion – costing between $50 to $100.

Then things would operate differently, and it would be more steps to send data back and forth than just moving the actual PAF file each time.

If you just want her to be able to see it, but not enter any data herself, the GEDCOM file method would work fine.

Roger

]]> By: Ben Sayer http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/#comment-396 Ben Sayer Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:09:14 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=43#comment-396 Howard, your sister could run PAF within a virtual computer. Which one to get depends on whether her Mac mini has an Intel or PowerPC processor. The applications mentioned in this article are for Intel based Macs. If she has an older mini (PowerPC based), I would not recommend running a virtualization application. It's just too slow. In that case I would go with genealogy database software that is made for the Mac (the term for this is a "native" application). Whether it is best for her to run native program depends on several factors: <ul> <li>How will your sister use the data you provide (e.g. only browsing the data or working collaboratively with you)?</li> <li>Do you have images, video, audio (multimedia) files in your database?</li> <li>How extensively is your data cited?</li> <li>Is she willing to run Windows on her Mac?</li> <li>Are there any budgetary constraints?</li> </ul> I can make a good recommendation for you and your sister if given answers to those questions. Thanks for asking your question! ----Ben Howard, your sister could run PAF within a virtual computer. Which one to get depends on whether her Mac mini has an Intel or PowerPC processor. The applications mentioned in this article are for Intel based Macs. If she has an older mini (PowerPC based), I would not recommend running a virtualization application. It’s just too slow. In that case I would go with genealogy database software that is made for the Mac (the term for this is a “native” application).
Whether it is best for her to run native program depends on several factors:

  • How will your sister use the data you provide (e.g. only browsing the data or working collaboratively with you)?
  • Do you have images, video, audio (multimedia) files in your database?
  • How extensively is your data cited?
  • Is she willing to run Windows on her Mac?
  • Are there any budgetary constraints?

I can make a good recommendation for you and your sister if given answers to those questions.
Thanks for asking your question!
—-Ben

]]> By: Howard Johnston http://genealogytools.com/want-to-use-a-windows-genealogy-application-on-your-mac/#comment-395 Howard Johnston Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:54:15 +0000 http://macgenealogist.com/?p=43#comment-395 I am a PC user running Windows Programs. My sister has a mac mini. I have a large database of genealogical data in the program "Personal Ancestral File" which I'd like to share with my sister. Would she be able to run a "virtual" windows program on her mini mac, or would it be best if she simply purchased a Mac genealogy program and we transferred the data via gedcom? Thanks! I am a PC user running Windows Programs. My sister has a mac mini. I have a large database of genealogical data in the program “Personal Ancestral File” which I’d like to share with my sister. Would she be able to run a “virtual” windows program on her mini mac, or would it be best if she simply purchased a Mac genealogy program and we transferred the data via gedcom?

Thanks!

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