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[HolyCount]

No need to buy software when you can use Ancestry.co.uk to create a tree

Tribal Pages is also a good place to store (and share if needed) a family tree.

[TheBoy]

Thank you, gentlemen.  RealVNC does the job very nicely, and the presentation, in its own viewer, is far superior to that of LogMeIn.com which runs in a browser and doesn't have brilliant resolution.

 

try pressing full screen button, it looks fine then. As for speeds I control a home pc via my iPhone on logmein, with a 3G connection it's fine. I've even used it on GPRS (56k) and it's still useable

If you had read OP, he didn't need an Internet capable system, just one for local LAN.  Thus logmein is unsuitable.  VNC sounds like it did the job though

[jereboam]

No need to buy software when you can use Ancestry.co.uk to create a tree

Ancestry.co.uk limits you to 250 family members on the free part of the site.  I've got 550 so far in my tree, and there are at least that many again still to go in.  And that's just the one's I'm interested in.  I'm part of a large London-based family and I recently discovered I've got a cousin living just down the road I'd never heard of.  Which is strange, because I live in Suffolk. 

[jereboam]

Thank you, gentlemen.  RealVNC does the job very nicely, and the presentation, in its own viewer, is far superior to that of LogMeIn.com which runs in a browser and doesn't have brilliant resolution.

 

try pressing full screen button, it looks fine then. As for speeds I control a home pc via my iPhone on logmein, with a 3G connection it's fine. I've even used it on GPRS (56k) and it's still useable

If you had read OP, he didn't need an Internet capable system, just one for local LAN.  Thus logmein is unsuitable.  VNC sounds like it did the job though

Regrettably, VNC has let me down BADLY!  The visible reason my old software wouldn't run on XP was because it didn't seem to handle the input properly, resulting in the database getting corrupted.  Dates got overwritten. 

Using VNC I just updated the tree on the W2K system from the XP remote desktop.  The XP error occurred on the W2K system, and I have been unable to fix it, so it's back to the backup - pain!  LogMeIn.com didn't do that, but with my present internet connection, I can't use it.

I'll investigate compatibility mode options, but I suspect this means a VM solution is going to give the same problem.  I am inclined to think that the problem may be connected with character sets - my old software claims it handles Unicode, but I think that may not be the case, and because we've got a few foreign names in the family, we may have some field overruns.  Although I don't see why this should affect date handling, which is generally the first thing to go wrong. 

[Welung666]

JB, what is the software that you are using for the tree on the W2K pc?

[Pitchfork]

No need to buy software when you can use Ancestry.co.uk to create a tree

Ancestry.co.uk limits you to 250 family members on the free part of the site.  I've got 550 so far in my tree, and there are at least that many again still to go in.  And that's just the one's I'm interested in.  I'm part of a large London-based family and I recently discovered I've got a cousin living just down the road I'd never heard of.  Which is strange, because I live in Suffolk. 

I have 800+ on mine & have never paid them a penny!

[jereboam]

No need to buy software when you can use Ancestry.co.uk to create a tree

Ancestry.co.uk limits you to 250 family members on the free part of the site.  I've got 550 so far in my tree, and there are at least that many again still to go in.  And that's just the one's I'm interested in.  I'm part of a large London-based family and I recently discovered I've got a cousin living just down the road I'd never heard of.  Which is strange, because I live in Suffolk. 

I have 800+ on mine & have never paid them a penny!

Sorry - it's Myheritage.com that limits you to 250 names.  I've just had another look at ancestry.co.uk - it's not too bad, but I don't really want to put all this stuff on the internet - some of the family object.

[jereboam]

JB, what is the software that you are using for the tree on the W2K pc?

It's something called Generations, produced by a company called Sierra, and I bought it about 10 years ago.  At the time, there wasn't anything about that was significantly better, and it was quite a few years before anything with better facilities appeared.  I've got version 8, and apparently there was a version 8.5 that was actually XP compatible. 

Sierra no longer support this program, and the company that looked after the support stopped distributing v8.5 a year ago, and they won't sell me a copy now.

[Pitchfork]

No need to buy software when you can use Ancestry.co.uk to create a tree

Ancestry.co.uk limits you to 250 family members on the free part of the site.  I've got 550 so far in my tree, and there are at least that many again still to go in.  And that's just the one's I'm interested in.  I'm part of a large London-based family and I recently discovered I've got a cousin living just down the road I'd never heard of.  Which is strange, because I live in Suffolk. 

I have 800+ on mine & have never paid them a penny!

Sorry - it's Myheritage.com that limits you to 250 names.  I've just had another look at ancestry.co.uk - it's not too bad, but I don't really want to put all this stuff on the internet - some of the family object.

But that's how other relatives that you don't know about help you extend your data. You can invite family member to either have editing or viewing rights & control whether others can see details of living people (go for the latter every time so that you keep control). Others get 'hints' on their own trees that there is a possible match to a name or can post requests on a noticeboard. If they want to see actual data they have to pay. It has never caused me a problem & I have been able to extend mine through being contacted.

[jereboam]

No need to buy software when you can use Ancestry.co.uk to create a tree

Ancestry.co.uk limits you to 250 family members on the free part of the site.  I've got 550 so far in my tree, and there are at least that many again still to go in.  And that's just the one's I'm interested in.  I'm part of a large London-based family and I recently discovered I've got a cousin living just down the road I'd never heard of.  Which is strange, because I live in Suffolk. 

I have 800+ on mine & have never paid them a penny!

Sorry - it's Myheritage.com that limits you to 250 names.  I've just had another look at ancestry.co.uk - it's not too bad, but I don't really want to put all this stuff on the internet - some of the family object.

But that's how other relatives that you don't know about help you extend your data. You can invite family member to either have editing or viewing rights & control whether others can see details of living people (go for the latter every time so that you keep control). Others get 'hints' on their own trees that there is a possible match to a name or can post requests on a noticeboard. If they want to see actual data they have to pay. It has never caused me a problem & I have been able to extend mine through being contacted.

Yes, I can see that, and I've been doing the same thing through Genesreunited.com, and found quite a few lost relatives that way.  But I have some family members who have absolutely huge databases (10K names and upwards) and are documenting the history of the London Jewish families of Dutch origin, and they provide a far better resource than the public sites.  I think that's because they've been researching it for 10 years longer than I have!

You're probably a relative, come to think of it...

[HolyCount]

I discovered one of the lasses in my office is a cousin from several generations back, through some female offshoot. I only have 700 odd names in my tree due to concentrating on the male lines.