Well, as a genealogy newbie, I am stressing over the selection of software to use. As a marketing professional, I work with databases all the time and understand the value of them being as complete and accurate as possible. As such, I want to choose something that will give me a good range of options overall.
I recognize the value in TMG in the amount of detail it can store but I'm not particularly fond of the interface (not afraid of it, I just don't like it much) and I have 'some' reservations about Visual FoxPro being the development format. I know it won't go away too soon but it will go away.
I'm really liking Legacy Family Tree at this point. I like the interface and it seems like it captures a lot of detail similar to TMG. I like the reporting and find it easy to use. I don't mind learning new software but I don't want to spend all my time figuring it out.
So, I'm looking for recommendations/insight from those of you who have been there done that. By virtue of this board I know that means you are probably biased towards TMG but I've seen some good comparisons on here between the two but they are over 2 years old now so I wanted to check back.
Would there be some sense in me starting out with Legacy to get my feet wet and eventually moving over to TMG? Would I lose anything in the process?
I'm anxious to get started and am really struggling over this decision.
