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Article: Your roots are showing: the quest for genealogy - and software to store it in.(The Desktop Critic) (Software Review)(Column)(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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The Desktop Critic
You'd think I'd be a wild-eyed, gibbering genealogy junkie. I mean, my grandmother traced her lineage back to Governor Bradford of the Pilgrims. Her husband traced his back to eleventh-century Scotland--on index cards. My other grandfather, at 105, is a genealogical gold mine.
I can think of two reasons, actually, why ancestor hunting has never really made my adrenaline spurt. First, after having spent $3000 on a computer, I've developed a psychological abhorrence of any activity involving index cards.
Second, I've always been more interested in looks, lives, and personalities than in dull names and dates. Your garden-variety ...