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Help! How Do I Use These Links?
If you are an average genealogist who wants a good program, you might want to try these first. They offer the best tradeoff of features versus ease of use. They all get excellent ratings from both their own users and reviewers. They include RootsMagic and Family Historian for Windows users, and Reunion for Mac users.
| Family Historian
by Calico Pie (Simon Orde) A new kind of family tree program with a design with strengths in its user interface, use of GEDCOM, graphics and picture handling. See their Design Goals & Philosophy page to see their ideas. http://www.family-historian.co.uk/ |
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Family Historian Comparisons
Family Historian compares itself with Roots Magic and Family Tree Maker http://www.family-historian.co.uk/compare/ |
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Family Historian User Group
This site is run by users of Family Historian. http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi |
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Family Historian 2.2 Review
by Paul Milner Reviewed on July 1, 2004. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=9293 |
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Family Historian 2.2 Review
by Mark Lang Reviewed on Jan 19, 2004. http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0403.htm#FamilyHistorian |
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Gedcom Census
by Nick Walker A free utility designed to be used with Family Historian. Records census entries and creates appropriate sources, census events, occupations and births and will allow images of the census to be linked. http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=142 |
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Jane's GEDCOM Utilities
by Jane Taubman Three free programs designed to help people converting from Family Tree Maker, Legacy and Generations to Family Historian. http://www.taubman.org.uk/gedcom/ |
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RJT Family Historian Converter
by Jane Taubman Works in conjunction with IrfanView to convert both images and a Family Historian GEDCOM file to a format suitable for use with a variety of other Family History programs including PhpGedView, RootsMagic and Heredis. http://www.taubman.org.uk/fhc/ |
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| Reunion
by Leister Productions, Inc. (Frank Leister) Reunion is one of the easiest-to-use programs with superb charting capabilities and many features. Only available for the Macintosh. http://www.leisterpro.com/ |
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Reunion 9 Review
by Grace Dobush As reviewed in November 2007 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=591 |
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Reunion 9.04 Review
by Jeffery Battersby Reviewed on May 18, 2007. Given 5 mice out of 5. http://www.macworld.com/2007/05/reviews/reunion9/ |
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| RootsMagic
by RootsMagic, Inc. (Bruce Buzbee) A program from the developer of the very popular and well-liked Family Origins. This program is even better. Complete and easy to use with extensive reports. http://www.rootsmagic.com/ |
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RootsMagic 3 Review
by Kimberly Powell Reviewed on Apr 3, 2006. Given 4.5 stars out of 5. http://genealogy.about.com/od/software_reviews/gr/rootsmagic3.htm |
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RootsMagic 3 Review
by Rick Crume As reviewed in April 2006 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=595 |
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RootsMagic User Groups
Popular programs get a lot of interest, as you can see by their user group list. http://www.rootsmagic.com/usergroups.htm |
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These programs are good programs that are deserving of your consideration. Because of their popularity they have large support groups and you should be able to find other people in your area using them. Family Tree Maker is the top seller in retail stores. PAF is available as a free download from the LDS Church. Legacy has a free and a deluxe edition. Brother's Keeper and GenoPro are very popular shareware programs.
| Brother's Keeper
by John Steed The most respected and successful shareware genealogical program. Has been around a long time and has many dedicated users. Both Windows and DOS versions available. http://www.bkwin.org/ |
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Brother's Keeper Norwegian Homepage
by Otto Jorgensen A Norwegian site representing Brother's Keeper. With information, tips and hints. The site is Norwegian but many pages are also in English. http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/bk/indexe.htm |
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Brother's Keeper Danish website
by Chris Gade Oxholm Sorensen A site written mostly in Danish with a lot of information about Brother's Keeper. http://www.brotherskeeper.dk/ |
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| Family Tree Maker
by MyFamily.com The number one selling genealogy program of all time. Produces a wide variety of reports and charts. Family Tree Maker 2008 was a complete rewrite, so the program now has a different look and does things differently than previous versions. http://www.familytreemaker.com/ |
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Genealogy.com
The parent site of Family Tree Maker is an online magazine, with news, how-to guides, classified, and online databases available. http://www.genealogy.com/ |
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Ancestry.com Blog
This is the blog for Ancestry and Family Tree Maker. http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/ |
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Family Tree Maker 2006 Review
by Kimberly Powell Reviewed on Apr 16, 2006. Given 4 stars out of 5. http://genealogy.about.com/od/software_reviews/gr/2006_ftm.htm |
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Family Tree Maker 2005 Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Aug 29, 2004. http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/08/family_tree_mak_2.html |
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| GenoPro
by Daniel Morin The only program that displays genograms. Many unique features including the ability to write macros in VBScript and JavaScript to perform complex computations and transformations on your family tree. It used to be freeware but is now shareware. Has had millions of downloads from shareware sites. http://www.genopro.com/ |
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GenoPro Genealogy Forum
This is the discussion forum for GenoPro. http://support.genopro.com/ |
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| Legacy
by Millennia Corp (Dave Berdan and Ken McGinnis) A comprehensive Windows program with many features, nicely described on their web site. It has a standard version that is free, and is one of the better free genealogy programs available. http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ |
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Legacy Comparisons
Legacy compares itself with PAF, Family Tree Maker, Roots Magic, and TMG http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/Articles.asp?ID=122 |
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Legacy Family Tree 6.0 Deluxe Review
by Kimberly Powell Reviewed on Apr 10, 2006. Given 4.5 stars out of 5. http://genealogy.about.com/od/software_reviews/gr/legacy.htm |
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Legacy Family Tree 6.0 Review
by Rick Crume As reviewed in February 2006 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=597 |
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Legacy Charting
Information about the Charting routines that will be included in Legacy version 7. http://www.legacycharting.com/ |
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| Personal Ancestral File (PAF)
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints PAF is a very popular genealogy program that has been available free for many years. The LDS has stated that it will no longer be updating the program, so it will be stuck at version 5.2.18.0 (2005). http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ |
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PAF Tutorial
A comprehensive online PAF tutorial, complete with Demos. http://paftutorial.byu.edu/ |
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Personal Ancestral File Lessons
An excellent set of online lessons on how to use PAF. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/lessons/paf5.html |
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Personal Ancestral File 5.2 Review
by Rick Crume As reviewed in December 2002 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=599 |
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Personal Ancestral File Version 5.1 Review
by Barbara Renick Reviewed on July 1, 2001. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5643 |
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Personal Ancestral File Companion
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints A utility program for Personal Ancestral File. It is designed to print a variety of high-quality genealogy charts and reports from Personal Ancestral File files. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/FAQ/frameset_faq.asp?FAQ=faq_paf_comp.asp |
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Personal Ancestral File Companion Details
PAF Companion is actually the version of Charting Companion by Progeny Software that is packaged for the Church of the LDS. This page gives more details. http://www.progenygenealogy.com/paf-companion-details.html |
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Personal Ancestral File Companion Version 5.1 Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Nov 3, 2002. http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0244.htm#PAFCompanion |
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PAF Insight for Windows
by Ohana Software LLC Provides database synchronization, advanced merge, and multiple pedigree view and cleanup functions for PAF datasets. http://www.ohanasoftware.com/?sec=learnmore/pafinsight |
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PAF Insight for Windows Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Apr 7, 2003. http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0314.htm#PAFInsight |
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PAFWiz
by Incline Software Reporting, Web Generation and other Utilities to enhance PAF 5. Incline Software are the developers of Ancestral Quest. http://www.pafwiz.com/ |
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The Silicon Valley PAF Users Group Home Page
One of the largest PAF Users groups, with a lot of resource material for the PAF User, including "PAF Documentation Guidelines" - an essential document that is even useful for non-PAF users. http://www.svpafug.org/ |
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Utah Valley PAF Users Group - Home Page
The PAF User group with direct access to the facilities of the LDS in Salt Lake City. http://www.uvpafug.org/ |
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If you need a program with advanced capabilities and the ability to understand the meaning of every possible type of data, then you'll want to try these. Because of their many features, they take a while to learn to use. They include the Master Genealogist and Genbox for Windows, GEDitCOM for the Mac and the free and open-source Lifelines program for Unix.
| GEDitCOM
by John Nairn A customizable genealogy application for the Macintosh for editing and viewing GEDCOM files. http://www.geditcom.com/ |
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GEDitCOM Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Nov 17, 2003. http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0346.htm#GEDitCOMforMacintosh |
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| Genbox Family History
by Thoughtful Creations (William Flight) A complete genealogy software package. It will help you organize your research, store your data, enter proper source citations, and produce professional-quality charts and reports that you can preview and modify, then print or publish on the web. http://www.genbox.com/ |
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Genbox Compared to Other Genealogy Products
This is a feature matrix comparing Genbox to TMG, Legacy, PAF, RootsMagic and Family Tree Maker. http://www.genbox.com/comparison.htm |
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Genbox FAQ
by Michel Vuijlsteke A collection of Frequently Asked Questions about Genbox put together by a Genbox user. http://genbox.zog.org/ |
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Genbox Family History 3.6 Review
by Kimberly Powell Reviewed prior to April 2006. Given 4 stars out of 5. http://genealogy.about.com/od/software_reviews/gr/genbox.htm |
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Genbox 3.1 Review
by Rick Crume As reviewed in August 2004 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=598 |
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| Lifelines
by Marc Nozell Made for the Unix environment, this may be the most powerful program available, with a programming language that allows custom reports and complete extendibility. It is free, and has become Open Source - meaning that programmers all over the world are working together to enhance it. The original author was Tom Wetmore. http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - Lifelines
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of Lifelines. It is written in the language C. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lifelines/ |
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Cutting edge Windows Console versions of LifeLines
This is a Windows 32-bit version of LifeLines this runs in a commandline shell, like a DOS program. http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/Ethel/ |
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jLifelines
by Chris Eagle This project was created as a translation of LifeLines from C to Java. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://jlifelines.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - jLifelines
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of jLifelines. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jlifelines/ |
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Other Ports of Lifelines
by Dan Hirschberg Ports for various Unix systems, and the original 16-bit DOS port. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/lines/lines.html |
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| The Master Genealogist
by Wholly Genes, Inc. (Bob Velke) A comprehensive program with many features that include a powerful report writer and excellent source referencing. http://www.whollygenes.com/ |
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TMG United Kingdom User's Group Web Site
by Paul Featherstone Designed to support users and potential users of TMG. Lots of info here about The Master Genealogist. http://www.featherstone-society.com/tmg/ |
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The Master Genealogist 6.12 Review
by Rick Crume As reviewed in October 2002 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=600 |
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The Master Genealogist 6.0 Review
by Kimberly Powell Reviewed on Apr 24, 2006. Given 4.5 stars out of 5. http://genealogy.about.com/cs/softwarereviews/gr/tmg.htm |
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TMG Companion Programs
by John Cardinal Lists several supplementary programs available for TMG users. http://www.johncardinal.com/tmg/ |
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TMG Utility Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on May 9, 2001. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3862 |
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Second Site for TMG
by John Cardinal Creates web pages directly from your TMG database. http://www.johncardinal.com/ss/ |
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Second Site for TMG Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Sept 11, 2002. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6319 |
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PathWiz
by Bryan Wetton A presentation tool which allows you to access and organize the paths stored in your TMG database to and from information attached to exhibits stored anywhere on your PC. http://www.sceya.com.au/pathwiz/ |
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PathWiz 5.0 Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Aug 17, 2005. http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/08/pathwiz_version.html |
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There about a hundred full-fledged programs written for the Computer Genealogist. Many of them are shareware and can be tried, and every one of them has their own unique style and set of extra features. Try them! You may find the one that best meets your likes and needs.
| Adam the Ancestry Manager
by Roland Kloepfer A German shareware program with an interface to Microsoft Office and direct scanning tools. http://www.use-adam.com/adam.html |
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| Agelong Tree
by Genery Software Inc An easy-to-use yet powerful computer program for building family trees, storing and displaying information about people and key events in their lives. http://www.genery.com/ |
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| Ages
by Jom Daub The "comfortable" genealogy program, with a nice tree-drawing capability. Multi-lingual in 11 languages. From Germany. http://www.daubnet.com/english/ages.html |
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| AgetoAge
by Ove Kjaerstadbakk A program under development with some interesting features including a compressed overview and a worldmap. http://www3.webng.com/agetoage2/ |
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| Ancestor+
by APDL The RISC OS genealogy program (will not do Windows). Simple to use, reads and writes GEDCOM, and can create HTML trees with separate cross referenced files for each person and family. http://www.apdl.co.uk/progs/ancest.htm |
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| Ancestors and Descendants
by Adventures in Ancestry, Inc. (Daniel and Karen Hancock) No longer for sale, but the complete website describing the program is still up. A full featured DOS program designed by genealogists for genealogists with over 100 standard reports. http://www.hancockonline.net/AnD/ |
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| Ancestral Quest
by Incline Software (Gaylon Findlay) This is the program on which PAF was based. It uses the same database structure as PAF. This program has continued to develop and is good for PAF users who want extra features and a different interface for their PAF developed-data. It's also fine on its own. http://www.ancquest.com/ |
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Ancestral Quest 12 Review
by Rick Crume As reviewed in November 2007 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=592 |
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Ancestral Quest 11 Review
by Elissa Powell Reviewed on Oct 1, 2004. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=9304 |
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| Ancestry Family Tree
by Ancestry.com A free genealogy program that in addition to editing your genealogy data, will search World Family Tree for people and records to add to your family tree, and publish your family tree online to share publicly or privately. http://www.ancestry.com/myancestry/ |
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| BirthWrite
by Richard McDonald A shareware genealogy program for Windows that includes website publishing. http://www.birthwrite.com/ |
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Ilanot
by Beth Hatefutsoth A modified and renamed version of BirthWrite with some features for Jewish Genealogists. This program is no longer being sold. http://www.bh.org.il/Shop/ilanot.aspx |
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| Cognatio
by Christoffer Owe A modern application for genealogical research and presentation. It is based on an advanced data model. This is replacing the Norwegian freeware program: Slekten. http://cosoft.org/cognatio/ |
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| Cumberland Family Tree for Windows
by Cumberland Family Software (Ira Lund) A Windows shareware program centered around creating your very own family book, with an emphasis on event-based genealogy. http://www.cf-software.com/ |
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| Deudos
by Deudos.com (Jose Samba) A well designed and popular program from Spain, high Gedcom compatibility and support of multiple languages. Easy to use. Very nice looking screens that are pleasant to work with. Has many advanced features not seen in other programs. http://www.deudos.com/ |
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| DoroTree
by DoroTree Technologies Ltd A Jewish Genealogy Software program with capabilities for English and Hebrew data entry, and other features useful for Jewish Genealogy. http://www.dorotree.com/ |
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DoroTree Review
by Gary Mokotoff Reviewed on Oct 1, 2000. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=4373 |
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| Exodus
by Leif Kristensen An Open Source PHP program using a PostgreSQL database with a sophisticated data model. http://solumslekt.org/forays/ |
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Me and My Database
This is the blog for Exodus. http://solumslekt.org/blog/ |
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| Ezitree
by Rex Toomey An event-based Family History program from Australia. http://www.ezitree.com.au/ |
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| Family
by Saltatory Software (Evan Schoenberg and Chris Forsythe) A very nice looking and intuitive program for the Mac OS X. It allows you to map out your family visually, associating images and files with each person and telling each person's story. http://saltatory.com/familyabout.html |
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| !Family for RISC OS
by Pennine Software !Family is a BASIC program to maintain a family tree database on an Acorn RISC OS platform. Uses GEDCOM. http://www.pennine.demon.co.uk/family/armbasic.htm |
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XFamily
A version of !Family being developed for Linux on both Acorn and other platforms. http://www.pennine.demon.co.uk/family/cplusplus.htm |
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| Family Matters
by MatterWare (Ray Nicklas) A very easy and intuitive Windows shareware program that includes Website generation. It is a multi-user Microsoft Access application. Microsoft Access programmers would be able to add their own extensions to it. http://www.matterware.com/ |
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| Family Origins
by Genealogy.com / FormalSoft Inc. An excellent and very popular program available for 12 years. But as of June 30, 2003 it will no longer being supported by Genealogy.com. FormalSoft Inc has become RootsMagic Inc and produces RootsMagic. http://www.familyorigins.com/ |
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FormalSoft's Viewpoint
by FormalSoft Inc. Formalsoft was the original creator of Family Origins. They describe the history of the program, and their decision to write a new program, RootsMagic. http://www.formalsoft.com/newsltr.htm |
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Family Origins FormalSoft Pages
These pages are still available at FormalSoft about the program. http://www.formalsoft.com/ |
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Family Origins Version 10.0 Review
by Dick Eastman / Pam Clark Reviewed on Sept 12, 2001. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=4550 |
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| Family.Show
by Vertigo (Scott Stanfield) Presents an innovative visualization of the classic family try using the latest tools in the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that is part of Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.0. Although it was developed primarily as an example to show the capabilities of WPF, it has a lot of features including GEDCOM import and export. http://www.vertigo.com/familyshow.aspx |
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| Family Tree Builder
by MyHeritage Ltd. (Gilad Japhet) Free software with a heavy emphasis on visual data such as photos and documents. Includes face recognition software and multi language capability. The program is free to help promote their myheritage.com genealogy hosting site. http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/family-tree-builder.php |
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| Family Tree Legends
by Pearl Street Software (Cliff Shaw & Chris Cooper) As of August 22, 2007, Pearl Street Software announced that they are merging with MyHeritage.com and now this program is FREE! A very capable and easy-to-use program with very nice looking forms. It was tightly integrated with the online GenCircles genealogy program and will now start integrating its functionality with MyHeritage's online site. http://www.familytreelegends.com |
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Download Family Tree Legends
Here is the page where Pearl Street Software is giving Family Tree Legends away for free. http://www.familytreelegends.com/downloads |
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Family Tree Legends - US publishing
by Individual Software Same software sold through a publishing agreement for U.S. distribution. http://www.individualsoftware.com/products/genealogy_family_trees/family_tree_legends/ |
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Family Tree Legends - UK publishing
by Focus Multimedia Ltd. Same software sold through a publishing agreement for U.K. distribution. http://www.focusmm.co.uk/shop/Family-Tree-Legends-Starter-Edition-pr-453.html |
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Family Tree Legends 5.0 Review
by Kimberly Powell Reviewed May 1, 2006. Given 4 stars out of 5. http://genealogy.about.com/od/software_reviews/gr/legends.htm |
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Family Tree Legends 5.0 Review
by Rick Crume As reviewed in April 2006 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=596 |
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Family Tree Legends 5.0 Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Aug 21, 2005. http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/08/family_tree_leg.html |
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| FAMware
by FAMware A Windows program designed for ease and simplicity of use. Originally called Family Reunion, it was first released in 1982 and was the first genealogy program produced for the IBM PC. http://www.famware.com/ |
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| Family Tree For Dummies
by Anuman Interactive If you like the For Dummies books, you'll like their For Dummies software. It is, like their books, quite well designed. http://www.dummies-software.com/produit.php?prod=4 |
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| Family Tree Heritage
by Individual Software Enter your data quickly and easily. Print trees, books, charts and reports. Create a multimedia presentation of your family history. http://www.individualsoftware.com/products/genealogy_family_trees/family_tree_heritage/ |
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| The Familytree of Family
by Dmitry Konjuhov A family tree program with a nice interface that includes biographies and photo and video materials. http://www.familytree.ru/en/index.htm |
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| Family Tree Publisher
by Advanced Digitek Inc. Commercial software. Called "The way to organize and record your family history". http://www.adigitek.com/Family%20Tree%20Publisher/ |
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| Family Trees Quick and Easy
by Individual Software A simple inexpensive commercial family tree program widely distributed for the mass market. This is essentially an old version of Ancestral Quest. http://www.individualsoftware.com/products/genealogy_family_trees/family_trees_quick_easy/ |
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Family Trees Quick and Easy 5.0 Review
by Barbara Schenck Reviewed on Oct 1, 2002. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=7925 |
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| Famtree
by Phil Sapiro Easy to use family tree software for Windows. http://www.famtreesoftware.com/ |
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| Ftree
by Clive Stubbings A free X-windows program to store and display family tree genealogy information designed to run under Linux. http://www.vjet.demon.co.uk/ftree/ |
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| Fzip Family Tree
by Andrew Croft A highly featured, fast and easy to use genealogy package. The software allows a person to view, search, maintain genealogy details and report on family trees. (Was formerly called Genea) http://www.fzipft.com/ |
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| GenDesigner 3.0
by PolishExpress, Inc. An easy-to-use multi-language program with full Unicode capability an a chart-based interface. Available currently in Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. http://www.gendesigner.com/ |
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GenDesigner 3.0 Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on August 7, 2002. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6167 |
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| Gene Macintosh Genealogy Software
by Diana and David Eppstein A shareware program for the Macintosh noteworthy for its clean user interface. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gene/ |
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| Genealogia
The first Italian program for genealogical and historical studies. Has a tree structured database. Works directly with GEDCOM and handles pictures. The program has a choice of either an English or an Italian interface, but the documentation is only in Italian. http://www.genealogica.it/genealen.htm |
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| Genealogical Information Manager (GIM)
by D. Blaine Wasden and Brian C. Madsen A DOS shareware program that organizes your family data like a traditional database. http://www.gimsoft.com/ |
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| Genealogy for Windows
by Deltadrive Limited (Chris Boutal) An event driven program with form designers and the ability to form genetic family trees. http://www.deltadrive.co.uk/ |
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QL Genealogist
by Chris Boutal This program for the Sinclair QL computer is still available for purchase. It is the program that Genealogy for Windows was based on. http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/treesoftware.html |
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| Genealogy Pro for MacOS/X
by Genealogy Pro Software Services A low cost MacOS/X program with an easy to use graphical interface, family tree charting functions and web publishing. http://www.genealogypro.net/MacOSX/ |
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| GenealogyJ (in short GenJ)
by Nils Meier A full-featured standalone Java application that can handle all of your genealogic information (GEDCOM compliant). It provides different graphical components for working on your Family Tree. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://genj.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - GenealogyJ
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of GenealogyJ. It is written in the language Java. http://sourceforge.net/projects/genj/ |
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GenealogyJ Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on May 15, 2005. http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/05/genealogyj.html |
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| GeneaPro
by Ed Ridpath and Nick Charsley A multi-user, cross-platform Genealogy database program based on the GenTech Genealogical Data Model. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://geneapro.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - GeneaPro
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of GeneaPro. It is written in the language Java. http://sourceforge.net/projects/geneapro/ |
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| Generation X
by Glass Onion Software (Chris Hagedorn) A genealogy tool developed in Cocoa for Mac OS X. Has been bundled with publications by Family History Monthly Magazine. http://www.thenowhereman.com/hacks/products.html |
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| Generations (Mike Hobart's Generations Tips Series)
by Mike Hobart Generations was a popular program that Sierra stopped marketing. Sierra no longer has anything on its website about it, but Mike Hobart was actively involved from its beginning and still maintains info about it. http://users.sisna.com/mhobart/Generations/Generations%20Tips.html |
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Generations Deluxe DVD Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on May 2, 2001. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3823 |
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| Genes
by Sean Lambo A personal genealogy application for use on (primarily) Linux systems. Data is read from a GEDCOM file and shown in a GUI. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://genes.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - Genes
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of Genes. It is written in the language C++. http://sourceforge.net/projects/genes/ |
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| Genesis
by Paul de Valmency A genealogy program using the Microsoft Access database engine for its database. If you have a copy of ACCESS you can load Genesis databases and create your own reports or analysis if desired. http://www.logicshopltd.co.uk/genesis/ |
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| Genius Family Tree
by Genius Solutions (Peter Resch) An easy to use Windows program with a graphic visual display and simplicity of operation. http://www.gensol.com.au/ |
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| GENP
by GENP (Peter Evans) A Windows program featuring multiple databases each with their own theme combined with extensive sourcing of data. Language support is externalised. http://www.genp.com.au/ |
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GENP Society
A multiuser version of GENP with features of use to a society, law enforcement agency, professional researcher and school. http://www.genp.com.au/genpsociety.htm |
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| GenTree
by Arnaud Aurejac A program for Windows from France - available in French or English with an easy to use graphical interface. It features an events journal and a document library. http://arnaud.aurejac.free.fr/ukgentree.htm |
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| GHOSTS (Genealogy Helper Open Source Tracking Software)
Open-source software designed for Linux with full GEDCOM support for data browsing and editing and a clear presentation of genealogy data. http://www.nongnu.org/ghosts/ |
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| GRAMPS (Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System)
by Don Allingham A GNOME genealogy program for Linux and FreeBSD and Mac OS X that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://www.gramps-project.org/ |
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Project Info - GRAMPS
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of GRAMPS. It is written in the language Python. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/ |
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GRAMPS-project.org
This is the blog for GRAMPS. http://blog.gramps-project.org/ |
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GRAMPS Developer's Wiki
This is the WIKI for developers of GRAMPS. I.E., the place they share their knowledge. http://developers.gramps-project.org/ |
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GRAMPS for Linux, UNIX and Macintosh OS X Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Mar 15, 2005. http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/03/gramps_for_linu.html |
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| Great Family
by Great Progs (Morten Salthe) Graphically design your family tree and generate web pages. This easy-to-use program approaches family tree making from the user's point of view. Shareware. http://www.greatprogs.com/ |
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| Heredis Max X.2
by BSD Concept (Philippe Ramona) The best selling Genealogy program in France now has an English program for the Mac X. The Windows version can be found at: http://www.heredis.com/ but its site is only available in French. http://www.myheredis.com/ |
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Heredis Mac X.2 Review
by David Fryxell As reviewed in July 2007 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=594 |
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Heredis for Mac X Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Oct 20, 2003. http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0342.htm#HEREDIS |
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| Heritage Family Tree
by Individual Software A program with some unique features: Web Collaboration, Bow Tie Chart, Source Citation Engine and Research Manager. This is essentially an old version of Ancestral Quest. http://www.individualsoftware.com/products/genealogy_family_trees/heritage_family_tree/ |
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Heritage Family Tree Deluxe Review
by Barbara Schenck Reviewed on Oct 1, 2003. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=8868 |
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| iFamily for Tiger
A program for Apple Mac requiring at least OS 10.4 (Tiger). It stresses the individual more than the family unit which gives it certain advantages. Specializes in handling images. http://ifamilyfortiger.com/ |
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iFamily for Tiger Review
by Grace Dobush As reviewed in July 2007 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=593 |
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iFamily for Tiger 2.2 Review
by Jeffery Battersby Reviewed on July 11, 2007. Given 3.5 mice out of 5. http://www.macworld.com/2007/07/reviews/ifamily22/ |
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iFamily for Tiger Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Dec 17, 2006. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/12/ifamily_for_tig_1.html |
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| Karpathos
by Niko Matsakis A simple Python-based web framework for viewing and editing genealogy data. Allows users to browse your family tree and make changes, such as adding new people, adding or deleting images, or notes and stories. Works with GEDCOM v5.5 and Spyce. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://sourceforge.net/projects/karpathos |
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| KinQuest
by Orelle Corporation An MS-DOS based lineage-linked database program for holding the names you collect, the relationships to other people and references to the documentary evidence you keep. http://www.orelle.com/Kinquest/kinquest.htm |
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| Kith and Kin
by SpanSoft (Nick Hunter) A Windows shareware program popular in the United Kingdom. Also known as "Of that Ilk" in Australia. http://www.spansoft.org/kkpro.htm |
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| KK-Genealog
by Kaarle Kailan A program widely used in Finland. In Finnish the name is Sukuohjelmisto. As Finland is a bilingual country the software is also delivered in Swedish using the name Släktprogrammet. Uses Microsoft Access as its database format. http://www.kk-software.fi/ |
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| Leafs of the Family Tree
by L'Soft (Carson White) A multifunctional database management information system. Your entire family is presented using a standard hierarchical and indexed Windows tree view, arranged in a genealogical perspective by century. http://www.winloft.com/ |
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| LongFamilyHistory
by Philosoft Ltd. Presents data both textually and graphically. Tables can be customized, and ordered by almost every field. Designed to have a "Visual Studio" type of user interface with standard elements that Windows program users will be familiar with. http://www.philosoft.hu/en/LongFamilyHistory1.html |
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| MacFamilyTree
by Synium Software A comprehensive and full featured program for the Macintosh. Available in many languages. http://www.synium.de/macstammbaum/index.html |
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MacFamilyTree 4.5 Review
by David Fryxell As reviewed in January 2008 Family Tree Magazine. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=590 |
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MacFamilyTree 4.4.1 Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on March 8, 2007 http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/03/macfamilytree_4.html |
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MacFamilyTree 4.4 Review
by Jeffery Battersby Reviewed on June 5, 2007. Given 3.5 mice out of 5. http://www.macworld.com/2007/06/reviews/macfamilytree44/ |
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| MacPAF (or MAF)
by Logan Allred A free and Open Source family history and genealogy application for Mac OS X. It is designed to replace the no-longer available PAF for Macintosh product, but work on this project has not progressed to production. http://homepage.mac.com/logan/MacPAF/ |
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Project Info - MacPAF
This is where you go if to help with the development of MacPAF. http://sourceforge.net/projects/macpaf/ |
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MacPAF Blog
Logan's Blog page on the project. http://homepage.mac.com/logan/iblog/MacPAF/ |
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| My Family Tree
by HuhnWare A multimedia computer application designed to easily document your family's history. http://www.huhnware.com/mft/ |
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| ohmiGene
by Thierry Nauze A program from France developed for Windows and Mac. Adheres strictly to GEDCOM standards and also reads and writes a GmC format. http://ohmi.celeonet.fr/ohmiGene/ |
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| Osk
by Studlar Software (Trausti Thor Johannsson) A fast and easy to use genealogy program available both for the Mac and for Windows, from Iceland. Available in English or Icelandic. http://www.studlar.net/en/software/osk_45.html |
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| OurTreePro
by Ron Smith A program for the Mac or Windows that uses FileMaker Pro and can run as a single user, or as a multi-user client server environment. Supports GedCom 5.5 and GedXML 6.0. http://www.ourtreepro.com/ |
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| Parents Genealogy
by NickleWare (Bradley Nicholes) A good basic Windows family tree program. http://www.nickleware.com/ |
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| Pedigree
by Pedigree Software A DOS program whose strengths are compact storage, indexing of very detailed records of People, Marriages and Sources such as Census records and other record types that you can create yourself. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pedigreesoftware/ |
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PediView and PediTree
by Pedigree Software Windows versions of Pedigree. They are designed to update an existing database created and updated in DOS Pedigree or in PediView or PediTree themselfs. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pedigreesoftware/pediview.htm |
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| Personas
by Stan Mitchell A genealogy database program implementing the GenTech Genealogical Data Model. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://geneapro.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - Personas
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of Personas. It is written in the language C++. http://sourceforge.net/projects/personas/ |
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| Pro-Gen
by Johan Mulderij and Dinant Scholte in't Hoff A Dutch shareware program that has many European users. http://www.pro-gen.nl/gbhome.htm |
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| Pythian Family History
A full feature shareware genealogy program stored in a MySQL database. http://members.shaw.ca/pythiangenealogy/ |
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| RapidGEN
A full-featured program from France with a unique managing calendar system, allowing you to enter and/or visualize dates of 7 different calendar systems in their original format very easily. http://us.rapidgen.com/ |
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| Relatively Yours
by Computability Pty. Limited (Greg Morgan) A complete system, designed and programmed in Australia, so that all the information you can research about your family history can be recorded, displayed and reproduced in a meaningful fashion. Has some very interesting and unique reports. http://www.relativelyyours.com/ |
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Relatively Yours 3 Review
by Mark Lang Reviewed on Oct 1, 2004. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=9305 |
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| The Roots Story
Commsoft was the original producer of Roots, and led the development of Genealogical computing in the 80's and early 90's. Here is their story. http://www.sonic.net/~commsoft/rstory.html |
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| Secere Family Tree Software
by M. Gurcan Yucedag A simple and well-designed family tree program available in English or Turkish. http://www.secere.org/secerepc/main_en.htm |
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| SeeGEDCOMX
by Keith Clarke A minimalist genealogy program for the Macintosh. It may be the only genealogy application with AppleScript support. http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~keithc/family-history/see-gedcom/ |
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| Simple Family Tree
by Doug Cox A nice program that does all the basics plus has an excellent and fast chart layout. Reads and writes GEDCOM. Free with C source code. http://jdmcox.com/ |
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| SmartGenealogy
by Alain Lecomte A free program that is intuitive that can handle very large databases with good response time and has many features. Available in English and French. http://alainlecomte.free.fr/Download.htm#SmartGenealogy |
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| Taurus Family Tree
by Taurus Software and Consulting A java application for storing, browsing and plotting genealogical information. Reads FTML, GEDCOM and CSV file formats. Plots both trees and timelines. http://www.tsac.co.uk/genealogy/ |
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| The Times Family Tree
by GSP - Global Software Publishing A simple program with a variety of family tree print outs and a facility to attach photographs and sound clips to make a multimedia album. http://www.gsp.cc/index.php?page=pages/product&prodID=5 |
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| WinFamily
by Winfamily.com A full featured Windows program with charting and HTML generation now sold from Norway. This program was originally developed by JamoDat of Denmark. http://www.winfamily.com/ |
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| Wintree
by David J. Cooke An easy-to-use family tree program which provides facilities to manage genealogical data in the standard GEDCOM format, to create, view, edit and merge GEDCOM files, and to produce reports, charts and family trees. http://www.wintree.plus.com/ |
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GWintree
by David J. Cooke Provides GEDCOM-based facilities to record, view, edit and merge genealogical data, and to produce reports, family trees showing all relatives, and other charts. The program is a port to Linux of Wintree v4.5, offering similar functionality. http://www.wintree.plus.com/gwintree.html |
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Many countries have authors who have developed Genealogy programs. If your primary language is not English, you may want to try one of these. I have found it difficult to personally analyze these programs due to the foreign languages, so I apologise for my descriptions (or lack thereof)
| Ahnen-Cronik
by Hans Hennes German Genealogy program with high-quality graphics using Microsoft Access for its database. Website is in German. http://www.ahnen-chronik.de/ |
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| Ahnenforscher
by Remo Schlauri Website is in German. http://www.ontec.ch/ahnenforscher/ |
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| Aldfaer
by Anne van der Ploeg A free program written in Dutch. The website is in Dutch. http://www.aldfaer.nl/index.html |
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GEDCOMpare
A free program, also in Dutch, that analyzes GEDCOM files. http://www.aldfaer.net/site/index.php?q=node/10040 |
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| Ancestor Sheet
by Dirk Boettcher Website is in German. http://www.ahnenblatt.de/ |
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| Ancestra
by Franke Ancestra is a French genealogical software program for Windows. It allows you create databases, manage them effectively and integrate them with other tools and resources (GEDCOM, GeneaNet). Website is in French. http://membres.lycos.fr/franke/ |
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| Ancestrologie
by Philippe Cazaux-Moutou A free full-featured program from France. The website is in French. http://www.ancestrologie.com/fr/ |
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| Basgen98
by Arthemes A full-featured French program for Genealogy. Website is in French. http://members.aol.com/basgen98/ |
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| DISGEN
by Foreningen The most sold genealogical software in Sweden. Program menus are in Swedish, but printouts can be made in English and other languages. Website is in Swedish. http://www.dis.se/dgeindex.htm |
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| Dynas-Tree
by Gerhard Bauch A personal ancestral database where all major activities are carried out "on tree". In German, English and French languages, switchable without having to restart the program. Website is in German. http://www.dynas-tree.de/ |
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| Familienbande
by Stefan Mettenbrink A free Mac OS X genealogy application, only available in German. Website is in German. http://www.familienbande-genealogie.de/ |
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| Familienstammbaum
by Genealogie-Service.de GmbH Website is in German. http://www.familienstammbaum.de/ |
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| FamTree
Website is in German. http://www.bst-soft.de/fam.htm |
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| GAOPerso 2000
by Genealogie Assistee par Ordinateur (GAO) A French program for Genealogy. Also a utility program named GAOActes is available. Website is in French. http://www.gao.asso.fr/ |
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| Geneaal
by Bruikbare Software (G. vanBinsbergen) A freeware program written in Dutch. The website is in Dutch. http://www.gvanbinsbergen.org/VBUS/Geneaal.html |
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| Geneal
by Triatel A simple, fast and complete French Genealogy program. Website is in French. http://www.geneal.com/ |
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| Genealogos
by Editions Profil A full featured French program for the Macintosh. Available in essentiel and expert versions. Website is in French. http://www.genealogos.com/ |
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| Geneatique
A comprehensive and well-rated program with many features written in French. Website is in French. http://www.cdip.com/geneatique/ |
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| GenPlus
by Gisbert Berwe A DOS program. Website is in German. http://www.genpluswin.de/ |
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| GensDataPro
by the Netherlands Genealogical Society A Dutch program. Website is in Dutch. http://www.gensdatapro.nl/ |
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GD90 for Windows
by Jules Lauwerier A free Dutch program that is compatible with the GensData/D90 (a DOS program). Website is in Dutch. http://www.geocities.com/lauwerier/GD90_WIN.HTM |
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| GENprofi
by Andreas Espenschied A German program, first developed in 1985, designed to visualize master data in different ways, including tree charts. Website is in German. http://www.genprofi.net |
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| Ges 2000
by Hans Knoll Website is in German. http://www.ges-2000-knoll.de/ |
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| GFAhnen
Website is in German. http://www.gf-franken.de/gfahnen_frm.html |
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| Griot Alternative
A DOS program, written in French, that includes source handling, statistical functions, and booklet generation. Griot Alternative was integrated into the new version of Heredis. Website is in French. http://www.chez.com/griot3/ |
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| Hazadata 21
by Telapas Software (Hans van der Zanden) The new Windows version of Hazadata. Currently only a Dutch version is available. Website is in Dutch. http://www.hazadata.com/haza21.htm |
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Hazadata
The older DOS version is now free. This webpage is in English. http://www.hazadata.com/engdoc.htm |
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| Heredis
by BSD Concept (Philippe Ramona) The best selling Genealogy program in France with many innovative features not seen in other programs. Website is in French. Has a Mac version called MyHeredis and that website is in English. http://www.heredis.com/ |
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Heredis 7.2 Review
by Mark Lang Reviewed on July 1, 2004. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=9292 |
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| Oedipus
by Leen Lamain A program written in Dutch, but with language modules. It is free and Open Source (written in C/C++). Website is in Dutch. http://www.lamain.nl/oedipus.htm |
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| Omega
by Boris Neubert and Ulrike Volmar A German program that works with family cards and produces local family albums. The German site no longer appears to be there. This site is for the French version. Website is in French. http://www.geneamosellest.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=207 |
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| Parentele
by Alsyd Multimedia Parentele is aimed at beginners interested in exploring their roots, as well as expert genealogists wishing to take advantage of todays' technology to manage, present, communicate, and exchange the results of their research with family as well as other genealogists around the globe. Website is in French. http://www.parentele.com/ |
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Parentele Review
by Betty Clay Reviewed on July 1, 2001. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5642 |
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| PC-Ahnen
by Guenther Black A DOS program. Website is in German. http://www.pcahnen.de/ |
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| Pro Ancestor
by Dieter Coors A system of programs for ancestor research. Website is in German. http://www.ahnenforschung-programm.de/ |
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| RS-Ahnen
by Karsten Rudorf Website is in German. http://www.rsahnen.info/ |
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| Stammbaum
by Arnold Willemer Website is in German. http://www.willemer.de/stammbaum/ |
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| Vokabelkasten
by Arnold Willemer Website is in German. http://www.vokabelkasten.de/ |
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Another possibility is to do everything online. Here are some programs that allow you to record, preserve, and share your family tree on the Internet without any additional software other than a web browser.
| AGES-online
by AGES-online AGES stands for Advanced Genealogical Exploration Services. It is designed to let you to build your family tree online. Optional features include your own family website, multimedia support and streaming-media support. http://www.ages-online.com/ |
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| Amiglia
by Amiglia Inc. (Paul & Milena Berry) Provides a very different interactive family tree that connects together a family album, calendar, mapping, tagging and search of photos, and slideshows. http://www.amiglia.com/ |
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Amiglia Your Family Tree Beta Review
by Kimberly Powell Reviewed on Apr 27, 2006. http://genealogy.about.com/b/a/255809.htm |
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| AprilTree.com Online Family Tree Service
by AprilTree.com Designed to work in any webbrowser with javascript, and gives you your own private online family tree. http://www.apriltree.com/ |
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| Distributed Family Tree Project
by Hilton Campbell An open source project to combine all available genealogical information on the Internet into a single distributed network. This is part of a Master's Thesis that Hilton is working on. http://www.dftproject.org/ |
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MacPAF Blog
Hilton's research blog for the project. http://www.dftproject.org/blog/ |
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| FamiliaOnline
by DrAlex Software Hosts your family tree and pictures. Has a "rectangle tool" to link pictures to individuals. Multiple picture upload, support of multimedia files, better privacy protection. http://online.dralex.com/home/ |
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| Famillion
by Global Family Ltd. A world wide family project that connects people by merging your family tree with related family tress of other people. http://www.famillion.com/ |
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| Familybuilder
by Familybuilder (Andrew Merkatz and Ilya Nikolayev) An online family tree builder built as a gadget for users of Facebook and Bebo, two popular social networking sites. This program was built from the bottom up to fully leverage and integrate the power of these networks. http://www.familybuilder.com/ |
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| FamilyInHistory
by FamilyPulse LC A personalized genealogy website for your family to store and share genealogy information, photos, stories and more. Each member will have a user profile with a unique log in and password, as well as their own private page they can update. Everyone you invite will have instant access to your family tree online. http://www.familyinhistory.com/ |
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| FamilyLink
by World Vital Records, Inc. (Paul Allen) A free social genealogy networking Web site created to link people across the world. Designed to connect with others, help research your history, and preserve your research online and share it with others. http://www.familylink.com/ |
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| Family Pursuit
by Family Pursuit, LC. Online genealogy management software allowing you to collaborate, communicate, revise and coordinate your research with your family members. http://www.familypursuit.net/ |
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| FamilyRelatives.com
Create, build, connect and share your Family History. Familyrelatives.com adds unique and free social networking features to link members and family historians together. http://www.familyrelatives.com/ |
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| FamilySearch Labs
by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. (Dan Lawyer and others) Showcases new family history technologies, mostly web-based, that are still in development. Dan is a Product Manager in the Family History Department of the LDS Church. http://labs.familysearch.org/ |
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Pedigree Viewer
A free flash-based Pedigree Viewer that allows you to zoom closer and farther and move around your Pedigree. This is part of a showcase of new family history technologies that are experiments in innovation. http://www.familysearchlabs.org/em/ |
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Life Browser
A conceptual prototype of an online program to display your family through picture records and the stories of their lives. http://www.familysearchlabs.org/lifebrowser.html |
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FamilySearch Labs Blog
The blog about the new technologies being tried. http://labs.familysearch.org/blog/ |
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| FamilyTrackers
by FamilyTrackers, Inc. Provides a subscription-based online Family Tree program that enters data into a common database. Genealogical and historical societies can publish their data for free. http://www.familytrackers.com/ |
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| Family Tree Drillet
by Desai Technologies An easy to use java applet that can run on your computer or from a website and let you navigate easily through large family trees. Family trees can be created and modified by all the members. http://familytreedrillet.com/ |
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| Family Tree Guide
by FamilyTreeGuide.com Makes it simple to place your family tree online with your own website and website address. All work that involves the website setup and maintenance is handled by their staff. Your family tree will be web-based and you will be able to access and edit your genealogy anywhere. http://www.familytreeguide.com |
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| Famiva
by Socionet Pty Ltd A free secure social network for families to help build the family tree, share photes and stories, explore family maps and more. http://www.famiva.com/ |
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| FAM*WISE
by FamWise.com LLC (Rick Higgins) A unique and intriguing online application that delivers research and collaboration functionality to the genealogy community. While it can be used as a standalone genealogy database, it is meant primarily as a research tool to organize documents, to record analysis, logic & deductions/reasonings, and to allow collaboration between multiple researchers. http://www.famwise.com/ |
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| findmypast.com
by findmypast.com A British site specializing in matching people accurately by linking them through United Kingdom census records and passenger lists. http://www.findmypast.com/ |
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Family Tree Builder
The online program designed for users of findmypast.com to upload their GEDCOM and enter their data for matching. http://www.findmypast.com/familyTreeDisplay.action?action=A&firstName=&lastName= |
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| GEDview
by GEDview.com Provides hosting services and PhpGedView to allow you to publish your family tree on the internet. http://www.gedview.com/ |
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| GenCircles
by Pearl Street Software (Cliff Shaw & Chris Cooper) Accepts GEDCOMs into a global tree, and provides clubs and a tree matching service. Really nice interface and well designed. http://www.gencircles.com/ |
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| Genealogia.com
by Notrefamille.com (Toussaint Roze) An online family tree building and sharing site with an English component, but associated with Notrefamille's French-based family portal. It seems like they purchased and incorporated Infoduc's gedlink editor program. http://www.genealogia.com/en/ |
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| Genebase Bionet Builder
by GeneBase Systems Allows you to create a family tree network, to link with and communicate with your relatives. Designed to help document the lives of your ancestors. http://www.genebase.com/ |
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| Genetree
by Sorenson Companies A family history sharing site created to help you discover your genetic heritage and identity, connect and collabore with living relatives, and share information and perspective through personal stories, photos, video and documents. http://www.genetree.com |
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| GeneoTree
by Damien Poulain Uses GEDCOM files to display your genealogy on the Net. Has original features including consanguinity lists, cousin lists, dynamic trees, prize list and PDF Reports. Written in PHP and MySQL. Open Source and free. http://www.geneotree.com/ |
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Project Info - GeneoTree
This is the developers area for GeneoTree. http://sourceforge.net/projects/geneotree/ |
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| Genes Reunited
by Genes Reunited Limited Build your family tree, search online, and contact other tree owners to discover family connections. http://www.genesreunited.com/ |
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| GeneWeb
by Daniel de Rauglaudre GeneWeb is not specifically online software, but it is a program that has a web interface that can act as a webserver for Genealogy data. GeneWeb is free and can be used off-line or as a Web service as on GeneaNet. It is available for Unix and Windows and Mac (OS X), in at least English and French. http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/en/ |
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GeneaNet
The huge and free GeneaNet site has its goal to be a universal register of all the world's genealogical resources. Known as the Genealogical Database Network, it uses GeneWeb as its primary tool for the users of its service. http://www.geneanet.com/ |
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GeneWeb Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Dec 16, 2002. http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0250.htm#GeneWeb |
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| Geni
by Geni, Inc. (David Sacks, Alan Braverman) Allows families to collaboratively build their family tree. When the user adds a relative's email address, that relative is invited to join the tree. Your family's information is kept private as you can only search for people who are in your family. When separate trees begin to overlap, they can be merged, with the potential of producing a world family tree. http://www.geni.com/ |
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| Genmod
by Roland Dalmulder An online program designed to be a full competitor of regular desktop application. Written in PHP, JavaScript, CSS and MySQL. Open Source and free. http://www.genmod.net/ |
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Project Info - Genmod
This is the developers area for Genmod. http://sourceforge.net/projects/genmod/ |
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| Genoom
by a group of programmers at Midatel Tecnologia (Spain) Allows you to create a private, secure and free family network. You can import your tree from GEDCOM. Available in several languages. http://www.genoom.com/ |
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| The GNTP Developers Page
GNTP is a free worldwide peer-to-peer network that allows you to publish your GEDCOM files to the entire world directly from your own computer. It works just the way Napster used to work, but it is unhindered by the legal issues associated with music. In contrast, Genealogists love to share information and knowledge with each other. GNTP is Open Source, which means it is looking for programmers willing to help develop it. Here is where you go to contribute to the project as a developer. However, the actual GNTP Site at http://genealogy.byu.edu no longer seems to exist. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gntp/ |
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| it's our tree.com
by OSN GmbH (Daniel Grozinger & Sven Schmidt) A free service to create your family tree and stay in contact with your relatives. Beautiful design and very cute graphics. http://www.itsourtree.com/ |
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| JGen
JGen is a genealogy database component for the Joomla content management system. It allows easy registration of individuals, the links between them, sources where information was found, images and documents. It is Open Source and free. http://www.solventus.tk/ |
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Project Info - JGen
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of JGen. It is written in in PHP and uses MySQL as its database. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgen-database |
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| JotSpot Family Site
by JotSpot A free secure website for your family that includes an online family tree builder program, reunion planning, a calendar, and mapping. JotSpot was acquired by Google in Oct 2006 for its Wiki hosting service. The family site was just a small part of that, so no telling what Google might do with it. It is still active for existing registrants by no new accounts are currently accepted. http://familysite.jot.com/ |
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| Kincafe
by Kincafe.com Secure and free. Build your family tree, collaborate with family to expand the tree, share photos, stores and lates updates. http://www.kincafe.com/ |
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| Kindo
by Kindo Network Ltd (Gareth Knight) Build your own family tree for free, share it with the rest of your family, and learn more about who you are. http://www.kindo.com/ |
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| LostCousins
by Lost Cousins Ltd. (Peter Calver) A family history site that matches you with others searching the same relatives. It does this by collecting only your relatives from specific Censuses. It is free to search and basic membership is free. http://www.lostcousins.com/ |
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| Our Story
by WisdomArk (Andy Halliday) Save stories, photos, and videos on a collaborative timeline. http://www.ourstory.com/ |
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| MyFamilyTree
by CBC This online family tree program was made as part of the "Who Do You Think You Are" television series by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. http://whodoyouthinkyouare.cbc.ca/ |
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| My Great Big Family .com
by Web Portal People, LLC A website and online family tree program allowing families to collect their family information together. Includes many interactive features and can import GEDCOM files. http://www.mygreatbigfamily.com/ |
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| MyTrees Online
by Kindred Konnections, Inc. A free, full-featured, online genealogy program, You can input your family history directly from home or office. Has one of the world's largest pedigree-linked databases. http://www.kindredkonnections.com/ |
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| NokTree.com
by Nok, LLC A project to share and collaborate genealogy research for free. Versions of every individual and family are stored and you can revert or restore individuals and families at any time. http://www.noktree.com/ |
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| OneFamilyTree
by OneFamilyTree.com Provides a simple and easy way of building and sharing your Family Tree online. You can also have your own personal family tree website. http://www.onefamilytree.com/ |
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| One Great Family
by OneGreatFamily.com Features what they call an Online Genealogy Browser. There is a free version and a subscription version. http://www.onegreatfamily.com/ |
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One Great Family Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Jan 31, 2001. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3311 |
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| Online Family Tree
by MyFamily.com Inc. A free service where you can record names, dates, places, events, and notes as you would in a software program. Ancestry.com will be closing this service about March 2008 and will transition Online Family Tree members to their new Ancestry Member Tree System. http://www.ancestry.com/oft/login.asp |
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Online Family Tree Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on June 6, 2001. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3994 |
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| Our Family Tree
by Ray Gurganus A free full-featured online genealogydatabase that began many years ago a a home-grown genealogy system and has improved over time. Each record has a "moderator" http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/ |
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| PedigreeSoft
by PedigreeSoft LLC (Matt Garner) A full featured web-based genealogy software and family history sharing site. The web-based Family Tree Explorer program allows you to easily organize your research via your web browser. http://www.pedigreesoft.com/ |
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PedigreeSoft.com Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Mar 26, 2007. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/03/pedigreesoftcom.html |
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| PGVHosting.com
Provides internet hosting services for genealogy websites. Share, edit, and collaborate on your genealogy. PGVHosting websites are powered by PhpGedView and the servers have been tuned for running PhpGedView. http://www.pgvhosting.com/ |
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| PhpGedView
by John Finlay A genealogy program which allows you to view and edit your genealogy on your website. PhpGedView has full editing capabilities, full privacy functions, and supports multimedia like photos and document images. PhpGedView also allows you to collaborate with others working on your family lines. Your latest information is always on your website and available for others to see. This is an Open Source project and is free. http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - PhpGedView
This is the developers area for PhpGedView. http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview/ |
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PhpGedView Review
by Dick Eastman Reviewed on Feb 13, 2007. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/02/phpgedview.html |
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PGV-View
A modified version of PhpGedView for those who want to only show/view their genealogical data. http://phpgedview.sourceforge.net/pgvview.php |
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| Poplar
by Eugene Dubois and James Grotjan Dynamically view and edit genealogy data on a website. Loads standard GEDCOM files. Includes both standard and tree views, comprehensive searches, themes, privacy module, guest book, GEDCOM download, GENDEX output, photo module, multi-lingual. Written with PHP and MySql. Open Source and free. http://sourceforge.net/projects/poplar/ |
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| PRF Navigator
by Pedigree Magnet A web portal that looks and works like Ancestral File, but uses the latest Pedigree Resource File submission. It has the same capabilities as their PRF Navigator program, and can export GEDCOM files. http://www.pedigreemagnet.com/ |
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| RelativeTree
by RelativeTree, LLC (Richard Halls) Provides you with your own private web site and database. Its software lets you create a family tree and individual biographies. Trees are viewed and downloaded in three vertical generational segments and automatically adjust for changes. http://www.relativetree.com/ |
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| SharedTree
by Trevor Allred A free multiuser online online genealogy application that tracks family relationships, events, and personal biographies and photos. Fully compatible with GEDCOM, it allows for real time editing and sharing of family trees. This is an Open Source project. http://www.sharedtree.com/ |
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Project Info - SharedTree
This is where you go if you want to help with the development of SharedTree. It is written in the language PHP with a MySQL database. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharedtree |
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| TreeX
An on-line family tree builder allowing unlimited members, data, photos and videos. http://www.treex.com/ |
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| Tribal Junction
Create your family tree online for free. Stay connected through group email features and automatoc notifications. http://www.tribaljunction.com/ |
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| TribalPages
A free online Genealogy service dedicated to creating your Family Tree website effortlessly and quickly. Very nice looking with many features plus a Forum. http://www.tribalpages.com/ |
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| TUFaT
by Darren A very comprehensive online family tree program written in PHP that you can put on your own website and run yourself (if your server supports PHP and MySQL). Full source provided. Only $5. Don't sell this one short! http://www.tufat.com/s_family_tree_builder.htm |
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| Vitatela
This site hosts a genealogy recording tool known as OnceRemoved. It offers a means to graphically record a genealogy and share that information with others. http://www.vitatela.com/ |
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| WebPAF
by Sean Eckton and Paul Woods (Project Admins) A genealogy database program similar to Personal Ancestral File, but one that is accessed via a web browser and allows for collaborative data management. WebPAF is freeware and open source. http://webpaf.sourceforge.net/ |
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Project Info - WebPAF
Here is the development site for WebPAF. It is written Mason (a Perl-based web programming language) that allows Perl to be embedded in HTML. http://sourceforge.net/projects/webpaf/ |
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| WeRelate
by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy, Inc. A free public-service website in partnership with the Allen County Public Library. Allows you to create Wiki pages for your ancestors, collaborate online with relatives, upload photos, scanned images and GEDCOM files. http://www.werelate.org/ |
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Family Tree Explorer
The online program that allows you to add people, families, images, sources and research pages to your personal pages at WeRelate. http://www.werelate.org/fte/ |
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| We're Related
by World Vital Records, Inc. (Paul Allen) Build your family tree and see who you are related to on Facebook. With this application you can find relatives on Facebook and build your family tree. http://www.relatedonfacebook.com/ |
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| Zooof
An online genealogy service and social networking site. Maintain family ties in a wide variety of ways: by tracing your ancestry, building a contemporary interactive family tree, inviting family members to a private environment, chatting, mailing, sharing, and writing a biography. http://www.zooof.com/ |
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