SoG Fellow John Hanson is waiting to welcome you to our virtual common room to discuss choosing family history software. A keen user of Family Historian, and tutor for our July course, John will start the conversation, but there will be plenty of opportunity to share experiences of other programmes such as Legacy Family Tree, Family Tree Maker, Reunion and RootsMagic.
- Which do you use, and what would you recommend to others?
- What do you like about it?
- What do you dislike about it or what is it lacking?
- Do you use an online tree instead of standalone software?
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About the Speaker
John Hanson FSG
John Hanson worked for many years for one of the country’s major banks, ending up as a Systems Specialist in mainframe databases. John has written extensively on family history subjects and has been a lecturer and teacher in family history for over twenty-five years, particularly on computers in genealogy and the census. He served on the executive committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies for several years and also as a trustee and served on many committees at the Society of Genealogists. He is currently the research director of the Halsted Trust and is a Fellow of SoG.
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18/05/2026
12:30 - 14:00
Online
90 minute social. Not recorded.
Location
Online
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