SOFTWARE ISSUES AND ME

These are things I have on order


9 Birth, Marriage & Death certificates [there is a 33% increase today {6th April 2010}, so I ordered as many as I could afford pre-price increase.]

3 photocopied Parish Register pages from the IGI – I discovered a couple of weeks back that any information on the IGI index can be ordered from the LDS in Utah at the cost of $2 per copy – very useful information for anyone who cannot get to see the original! So I found some entries for a John Daniel birth in 1703 and a marriage to a Esther in 1737 which I want to check to see if the Daniels bit could have been Dennel.

All of which are due the end of next week but the photocopies have to sent from the US, and the request from sent to there by mail. There appears to be no way to send the request electronically. I have had to fill the form in on the computer then print it off, then it has to be sent via a Post Office, not easy as they seem to be few and far between.

Today I am trying to enter Census information into the software, but I had decided to try some new census inputting software, an upgrade because the version I had been using had been great.

I have tried the new version now and can't get my head round the configuration needed to suit my needs so back to the old one.

Why do software writers decide after 4 years of a programme working fine that the new version would have to emulate the major American one? If I wanted software that was more biased towards America, I would have chosen one of those, not upgraded to the one that was fine.

The brain power seems to be used up now so I will leave you wondering.