Hello,

• I am an aerospace engineer/programmer. I have been dabbling in recording my family’s history my whole life as family, career, and life permitted, often for short intense research periods followed by longer pauses in-between.
• My research has revealed multiple Germanic, Irish and Scottish immigrant lines spanning the 19th century.
• I’ve used genealogy software for many decades starting with PAF/DOS, a long time amateurishly with FTM. After a several year pause realized the importance of citing sources, got serious and switched to TMG. Upon its demise I chose RM for several reasons:

1. Its unencrypted SQLite database allowing me to write my own 3rd party tools to customize for features not in RM7.
2. Its great online user community support.
3. Its overall set of features.
4. To support small software businesses.

• To the RM Team: Congrats on the RM8 release. As a s/w developer and RM8 beta tester I truly appreciate your product and efforts far more than any wining I do about the features I would like to see.
  John