Genealogy Computer Software


Genealogy Software  

* Brother’s Keeper - www.bkwin.com
The Brother’s Keeper genealogy program provides you with an easy way to enter information about your family and keep it organized in an easy-to-use database. The program then allows you to display and print the information in several different types of lists, charts, and reports. Key features include:

* It’s easy to learn and use (just fill in the blanks)

* Time saving features for repetitive names or places

* Ability to attach source references to events or facts

* Large area for text and notes

* Automatic linking and numbering of individuals added to the database

* Find anyone in the database by name or number

* Stores up to 10 million names per database

* Mistakes can be easily corrected

* Very easy to rearrange order of children

* Help is available on any screen (press F1)

* Browse easily up and down the family tree

* Ancestor (pedigree) charts – several sizes

* Ahnentafel report (ancestor table)

* Descendant report with relationships

* Descendant tree (graphic)

* Register number system report with alphabetical name index

* Box tree chart (graphic)

* Alphabetical name list of part or entire database

* Family group sheets

* Custom designed reports

* Birthday and anniversary lists

* Timeline charts

* Compute relationship between persons

* Photographs can be included on 6 different types of reports

* Reports may be displayed on-screen or printed

* Several reports can be sent to a text file

* Many options to choose from when printing each report

* GEDCOM file transfer support (import and export)

The author of Brother’s Keeper 6.0 is John Steed of Rockford, Michigan. Contact Mr. Steed for questions, ordering information, and pricing: Email: 75745.1371@compuserve.com   Phone: (616) 364-5503    FAX: (616) 866-3345
 

* Family Searchwww.familysearch.org
Personal Ancestral File Computer Software 3.01 of The Church of Jesus Christ of  Latter-day Saints www.mormon.org  - This is a genealogical management system for MS- DOS home computers. It enables you to group families together by linking you with your spouse, children, parents, and siblings (and repeating that for each generation).   Can produce, in automated or manual form, records for submitting names to request temple ordinances. Also produces lists of people who temple work has not yet been completed. Enables you to share information with another Personal Ancestral File user, submit family records to the Ancestral File, or request that temple ordinance work be done for an ancestor. Also allows you to submit to the Pedigree Resource Files.

* Family Tree Maker www.FamilyTreeMaker.com
Family Tree Maker 9.0 - For more than 10 years, Family Tree Maker has been America's #1-selling and top-rated family tree program. It is the easiest and most  complete resource for building your family tree. It includes one-click searching to find leads on your ancestors. Family Tree Maker scours virtually every genealogy-specific site available on the Internet to create a ranked list of resources that are likely to contain information on your ancestors. The "How-To" Guide is your expert search companion.   Use it to learn how to start, whom to contact, what to ask, and more — including built-in form letters and address directories that make requesting official records simple.  Let Family Tree Maker's Search Tips help you find your next research success. From vital records, to national and international archives, online resources, and more — the ideas keep coming.

* Herediswww.myheredis.com

* Legacy Family Treewww.legacyfamilytree.com
Legacy 4.0 is available in two editions: The Standard Edition - The full-featured professional genealogy program that helps you track, organize, print, and share your family history. Includes sourcing, reports, merging, To Do list, slide shows, multimedia, Web pages, spell checking, import and export and much more. And, it's free! The Deluxe Edition - This edition of Legacy is everything that the Standard Edition is and much, much more. Dozens of additional new features have been added. You will love the new Chronology View and report, the location notes, event report, embedded text formatting, customizable toolbar, global spell checking, user-defined Internet searches, and much more. There is even a new Picture Center that makes the assignment of pictures to individuals easier and quicker than ever. Together you and Legacy are going to make history... or more precisely, you are going to preserve history...your history, your origins, where you came from, how you got where you are today. And your children and their children and grandchildren are going to more fully appreciate their heritage and the great importance of "family." Legacy will set you free. Free to collect and record everything you can get your hands on concerning your family. You'll be  thrilled at how easy it is, and all your family will be really impressed at how you have organized all that information and produced all those wonderful reports. You're going to end up looking really good!

* Life Journalwww.lifejournal.com
Record the full experience of your Family History Search.

* Wholly Genes Software – ‘Family Tree Super Tools’ – www.whollygenes.com
Family Tree SuperTools brings advanced project management, the industry’s most flexible charting tools, and many other exclusive features to users of a wide variety of family history programs. By reading data directly from most popular programs with its built-in GenBridge™ technology, this new companion product avoids the many problems normally associated with GEDCOM transfers. With Family Tree SuperTools,  you’ll continue to do data entry in your current family tree program but you’ll have the added benefit of these many new research and reporting features.
 

Maps

* AniMap Plus www.goldbug.com/AniMap.html

* DeedMapperwww.ultranet.com/~deeds

* Historic Map Libraries www.goldbug.com

* Maptitude – Geographic Information System – www.caliper.com
Maptitude is the most capable, accessible, and affordable full-featured mapping package for Windows. Designed for data visualization and geographic analysis, Maptitude surpasses other desktop mapping products by providing expanded functionality, unequaled technology, and incomparable ease of use at a fraction of the price of other products. Maptitude comes with a comprehensive library of nationwide and worldwide maps on CD, including complete US street maps, and Census tract and ZIP Code boundaries and demographics.

* Microsoft Streets and Trips 2002www.microsoft.com/streets/features
 

Records Management


* Ancestor Detectivewww.clooz.com
Is your filing system ready for an upgrade? If so, Clooz, the electronic filing cabinet for genealogical records may be the answer.

* GenContacts – Correspondence management – www.everton.com
GENContacts is the ultimate contact and correspondence management software designed specifically for genealogists. As a genealogist, you understand the importance of keeping track of communications with societies, libraries, courthouses, cousins, and all of the other resources you utilize to find information. E-mails, faxes, letters, phone calls, and visits can all be recorded in GENContacts. With a click of the mouse, GENContacts will print correspondence records for specific people, associations, or research projects. “GENContacts has become an invaluable tool to organize all of the contacts and research projects I manage as a professional genealogist. This software is a must for any genealogist." --Gene Williams, CGRS

Miscellaneous Software

* CookBook Makerwww.virginlake.com
Cookbook Maker 2000™ turns a PC into a cookbook-publishing house with an easy-to-follow template for typing in recipes. Recipes may be organized into as many as 25 categories. The program provides space for information about the recipe source or other notes of interest. The program allows you to store your favorite recipes, and information about them.  If you have a recipe from your grandmother and want to tell why it is your favorite. You can include these comments with the recipes. The VLS CookBook Maker 2000™ Organizes your favorite recipes into twenty-five categories. From Appetizers to Vegetables. You can modify your recipes as often as you need, and then reprint them by category or by single recipe. The VLS CookBook Maker 2000™ prints your recipes ready to bind for your own use, for gifts to your family and friends, or to be duplicated for a fund raiser a church or community cookbook.

* Geneweaverwww.geneweaveronline.com
The all-new tool for creating and maintaining your family health history.

* ReunionMakerwww.EZReunionMaker.com
Reunion planning software & supplies. You can print invitation address labels, address lists, and address book, reservations list, name badges, table tents, reservation reports, etc.



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