Software recommendation for family tree?

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Rhino

Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Rhino » 14 apr 2006 17:53:05

I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many platforms
;-)

I would strongly prefer a free program to one that I have to pay for. I am
_not_ a serious genealogist and don't expect to be. Mind you, I am quite
interested in history in general, particularly 20th century history, so I
_could_ become serious about it :-)

I don't intend to go back beyond my grandparents generation at the moment,
although we already have some documentation that goes back to the 18th
century for my father's side of the family.

At the moment, my main goal is to create some trees that identify the people
in the family photo albums and show how they are related. For instance,
Grandpa X and Grandma Y married and had 4 children, A, B, C, and D. A
married P and gave birth to me. B and Q got married and gave birth to S and
T, my cousins. S and T each got married and had such and such children who
are my nephews and nieces. That kind of thing.

It would be great if the trees could easily show some basic biographical
data like the person's name, nickname, date of birth, place of birth, date
of death, place of death but didn't insist on all information being supplied
because I don't know some things for some people. It would also be great if
the program had an ability to insert a thumbnail picture of the person at
some recognizable age. The program should have the ability to handle
accented letters since some of the family tree originates in Europe.

It would be _really_ neat if the family tree had some kind of integration
with an computerized photo album! I would love to be able to click on a name
in a family tree and then be taken to all the different pictures of that
person in an album and to be able to click on an individual in one of the
photos in the album and be taken to the appropriate branch of the family
tree to find out more about this person. But I'm not naive; I'm not sure if
anyone makes a decent free (or even shrinkwrap!) program that does that!

I'm quite comfortable with computers in general as well as programming and
databases so I'm not intimidated by a fairly sophisticated program. I just
don't want to spend any serious money on software for this purpose :-)

I realize that I could find programs via Google but I'm hoping to save time
by asking the experts here for their recommendations of the best programs
for my purpose.

--
Rhino

T.M. Sommers

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av T.M. Sommers » 14 apr 2006 19:20:05

Rhino wrote:
I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many platforms

Take at look at Lifelines: http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/. It
doesn't have a GUI, but, as a programmer, you will appreciate its
report-writing language, which allows you to create just about
any report you might want.

--
Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@nj.net -- AB2SB

John

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av John » 14 apr 2006 23:50:34

The basic version of Legacy is free and does much of what you want.

http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/



On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:53:05 -0400, "Rhino"
<no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com> wrote:

I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many platforms
;-)

I would strongly prefer a free program to one that I have to pay for. I am
_not_ a serious genealogist and don't expect to be. Mind you, I am quite
interested in history in general, particularly 20th century history, so I
_could_ become serious about it :-)

I don't intend to go back beyond my grandparents generation at the moment,
although we already have some documentation that goes back to the 18th
century for my father's side of the family.

At the moment, my main goal is to create some trees that identify the people
in the family photo albums and show how they are related. For instance,
Grandpa X and Grandma Y married and had 4 children, A, B, C, and D. A
married P and gave birth to me. B and Q got married and gave birth to S and
T, my cousins. S and T each got married and had such and such children who
are my nephews and nieces. That kind of thing.

It would be great if the trees could easily show some basic biographical
data like the person's name, nickname, date of birth, place of birth, date
of death, place of death but didn't insist on all information being supplied
because I don't know some things for some people. It would also be great if
the program had an ability to insert a thumbnail picture of the person at
some recognizable age. The program should have the ability to handle
accented letters since some of the family tree originates in Europe.

It would be _really_ neat if the family tree had some kind of integration
with an computerized photo album! I would love to be able to click on a name
in a family tree and then be taken to all the different pictures of that
person in an album and to be able to click on an individual in one of the
photos in the album and be taken to the appropriate branch of the family
tree to find out more about this person. But I'm not naive; I'm not sure if
anyone makes a decent free (or even shrinkwrap!) program that does that!

I'm quite comfortable with computers in general as well as programming and
databases so I'm not intimidated by a fairly sophisticated program. I just
don't want to spend any serious money on software for this purpose :-)

I realize that I could find programs via Google but I'm hoping to save time
by asking the experts here for their recommendations of the best programs
for my purpose.

Paul Blair

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Paul Blair » 15 apr 2006 01:45:02

John wrote:
The basic version of Legacy is free and does much of what you want.

http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/



On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:53:05 -0400, "Rhino"
no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com> wrote:

I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many platforms
;-)

I would strongly prefer a free program to one that I have to pay for. I am
_not_ a serious genealogist and don't expect to be. Mind you, I am quite
interested in history in general, particularly 20th century history, so I
_could_ become serious about it :-)

I don't intend to go back beyond my grandparents generation at the moment,
although we already have some documentation that goes back to the 18th
century for my father's side of the family.

At the moment, my main goal is to create some trees that identify the people
in the family photo albums and show how they are related. For instance,
Grandpa X and Grandma Y married and had 4 children, A, B, C, and D. A
married P and gave birth to me. B and Q got married and gave birth to S and
T, my cousins. S and T each got married and had such and such children who
are my nephews and nieces. That kind of thing.

It would be great if the trees could easily show some basic biographical
data like the person's name, nickname, date of birth, place of birth, date
of death, place of death but didn't insist on all information being supplied
because I don't know some things for some people. It would also be great if
the program had an ability to insert a thumbnail picture of the person at
some recognizable age. The program should have the ability to handle
accented letters since some of the family tree originates in Europe.

It would be _really_ neat if the family tree had some kind of integration
with an computerized photo album! I would love to be able to click on a name
in a family tree and then be taken to all the different pictures of that
person in an album and to be able to click on an individual in one of the
photos in the album and be taken to the appropriate branch of the family
tree to find out more about this person. But I'm not naive; I'm not sure if
anyone makes a decent free (or even shrinkwrap!) program that does that!

I'm quite comfortable with computers in general as well as programming and
databases so I'm not intimidated by a fairly sophisticated program. I just
don't want to spend any serious money on software for this purpose :-)

I realize that I could find programs via Google but I'm hoping to save time
by asking the experts here for their recommendations of the best programs
for my purpose.


Its also written in MS Access, so you can add in the extra bits you
want. You will quickly work out the architecture.

Paul

Tim Heaney

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Tim Heaney » 15 apr 2006 01:52:01

"Rhino" <no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com> writes:
I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine.

I think GRAMPS is really nice

http://gramps-project.org/

but it requires GNOME

http://www.gnome.org/

which I don't think has been ported to Windows. Perhaps you could set
aside some space on your hard drive to install GNOME, along with an
operating system like FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Solaris

http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.linux.org/
http://www.netbsd.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/
http://www.sun.com/

Since you're a programmer, you should really enjoy working in one of
these enviroments. Who knows? You might find you don't actually need
to boot into Windows all that often.

Tim

Joe Makowiec

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Joe Makowiec » 15 apr 2006 02:20:50

On 14 Apr 2006 in soc.genealogy.computing, Tim Heaney wrote:

I think GRAMPS is really nice

http://gramps-project.org/

but it requires GNOME

http://www.gnome.org/

The last time I tried it (a couple of versions ago), it ran just fine on
KDE, so I'd expect that most X windows managers should be OK. Their
website notes:

GRAMPS 2.0 requires python 2.3 and the gnome-python and pygtk2
packages. The gnome-python should be 2.6.0 or greater. The pygtk
package should be versions 2.5.0 or greater.

GRAMPS is known to run on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Apple OS X
operating systems.


--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

Gjest

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Gjest » 15 apr 2006 03:36:07

Rhino wrote:
I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many platforms
;-)

I would strongly prefer a free program to one that I have to pay for. I am
_not_ a serious genealogist and don't expect to be. Mind you, I am quite
interested in history in general, particularly 20th century history, so I
_could_ become serious about it :-)

I don't intend to go back beyond my grandparents generation at the moment,
although we already have some documentation that goes back to the 18th
century for my father's side of the family.

At the moment, my main goal is to create some trees that identify the people
in the family photo albums and show how they are related. For instance,
Grandpa X and Grandma Y married and had 4 children, A, B, C, and D. A
married P and gave birth to me. B and Q got married and gave birth to S and
T, my cousins. S and T each got married and had such and such children who
are my nephews and nieces. That kind of thing.

It would be great if the trees could easily show some basic biographical
data like the person's name, nickname, date of birth, place of birth, date
of death, place of death but didn't insist on all information being supplied
because I don't know some things for some people. It would also be great if
the program had an ability to insert a thumbnail picture of the person at
some recognizable age. The program should have the ability to handle
accented letters since some of the family tree originates in Europe.

It would be _really_ neat if the family tree had some kind of integration
with an computerized photo album! I would love to be able to click on a name
in a family tree and then be taken to all the different pictures of that
person in an album and to be able to click on an individual in one of the
photos in the album and be taken to the appropriate branch of the family
tree to find out more about this person. But I'm not naive; I'm not sure if
anyone makes a decent free (or even shrinkwrap!) program that does that!

I'm quite comfortable with computers in general as well as programming and
databases so I'm not intimidated by a fairly sophisticated program. I just
don't want to spend any serious money on software for this purpose :-)

I realize that I could find programs via Google but I'm hoping to save time
by asking the experts here for their recommendations of the best programs
for my purpose.

--
Rhino

Try STATLOOK http://www.aplusc-systems.com
you will see more then you expected,
regards,
bart

Patrick Texier

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Patrick Texier » 15 apr 2006 04:58:13

Le Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:20:05 -0400, "T.M. Sommers" <tms@nj.net> a
écrit :

I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many platforms

Take at look at Lifelines: http://lifelines.sourceforge.net/. It
doesn't have a GUI, but, as a programmer, you will appreciate its
report-writing language, which allows you to create just about
any report you might want.

Yes, or GenJ <http://genj.sourceforge.net>.

Robert M. Riches Jr.

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Robert M. Riches Jr. » 15 apr 2006 05:56:06

On 2006-04-15, Tim Heaney <theaney@cablespeed.com> wrote:
"Rhino" <no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com> writes:

I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine.

I think GRAMPS is really nice

http://gramps-project.org/

but it requires GNOME

It might require some gnome-related packages, but it does
not require the actual Gnome "desktop environment" be in
use. It works just fine with _no_ "desktop environment" on
my Mandriva Linux 2006 system using OpenMotif as a window
manager.

--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

Rhino

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Rhino » 15 apr 2006 13:49:58

<sales@aplusc-systems.com> wrote in message
news:1145068567.633247.199620@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Rhino wrote:
I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to
chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a
program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many
platforms
;-)

I would strongly prefer a free program to one that I have to pay for. I
am
_not_ a serious genealogist and don't expect to be. Mind you, I am quite
interested in history in general, particularly 20th century history, so I
_could_ become serious about it :-)

I don't intend to go back beyond my grandparents generation at the
moment,
although we already have some documentation that goes back to the 18th
century for my father's side of the family.

At the moment, my main goal is to create some trees that identify the
people
in the family photo albums and show how they are related. For instance,
Grandpa X and Grandma Y married and had 4 children, A, B, C, and D. A
married P and gave birth to me. B and Q got married and gave birth to S
and
T, my cousins. S and T each got married and had such and such children
who
are my nephews and nieces. That kind of thing.

It would be great if the trees could easily show some basic biographical
data like the person's name, nickname, date of birth, place of birth,
date
of death, place of death but didn't insist on all information being
supplied
because I don't know some things for some people. It would also be great
if
the program had an ability to insert a thumbnail picture of the person at
some recognizable age. The program should have the ability to handle
accented letters since some of the family tree originates in Europe.

It would be _really_ neat if the family tree had some kind of integration
with an computerized photo album! I would love to be able to click on a
name
in a family tree and then be taken to all the different pictures of that
person in an album and to be able to click on an individual in one of the
photos in the album and be taken to the appropriate branch of the family
tree to find out more about this person. But I'm not naive; I'm not sure
if
anyone makes a decent free (or even shrinkwrap!) program that does that!

I'm quite comfortable with computers in general as well as programming
and
databases so I'm not intimidated by a fairly sophisticated program. I
just
don't want to spend any serious money on software for this purpose :-)

I realize that I could find programs via Google but I'm hoping to save
time
by asking the experts here for their recommendations of the best programs
for my purpose.

--
Rhino

Try STATLOOK http://www.aplusc-systems.com
you will see more then you expected,
regards,
bart

How does this help me generate a family tree? Statlock monitors the usage of

computers by employees and has nothing to do with genealogy.

--
Rhino

Rhino

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Rhino » 15 apr 2006 13:49:58

<sales@aplusc-systems.com> wrote in message
news:1145068567.633247.199620@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Rhino wrote:
I'm looking for a software recommendation, specifically, a program to
chart
family trees. I'm currently runnning Windows XP Professional but a
program
that ran on multiple operating systems - including Windows XP! - would be
fine. I'm a Java programmer so I _like_ programs that run on many
platforms
;-)

I would strongly prefer a free program to one that I have to pay for. I
am
_not_ a serious genealogist and don't expect to be. Mind you, I am quite
interested in history in general, particularly 20th century history, so I
_could_ become serious about it :-)

I don't intend to go back beyond my grandparents generation at the
moment,
although we already have some documentation that goes back to the 18th
century for my father's side of the family.

At the moment, my main goal is to create some trees that identify the
people
in the family photo albums and show how they are related. For instance,
Grandpa X and Grandma Y married and had 4 children, A, B, C, and D. A
married P and gave birth to me. B and Q got married and gave birth to S
and
T, my cousins. S and T each got married and had such and such children
who
are my nephews and nieces. That kind of thing.

It would be great if the trees could easily show some basic biographical
data like the person's name, nickname, date of birth, place of birth,
date
of death, place of death but didn't insist on all information being
supplied
because I don't know some things for some people. It would also be great
if
the program had an ability to insert a thumbnail picture of the person at
some recognizable age. The program should have the ability to handle
accented letters since some of the family tree originates in Europe.

It would be _really_ neat if the family tree had some kind of integration
with an computerized photo album! I would love to be able to click on a
name
in a family tree and then be taken to all the different pictures of that
person in an album and to be able to click on an individual in one of the
photos in the album and be taken to the appropriate branch of the family
tree to find out more about this person. But I'm not naive; I'm not sure
if
anyone makes a decent free (or even shrinkwrap!) program that does that!

I'm quite comfortable with computers in general as well as programming
and
databases so I'm not intimidated by a fairly sophisticated program. I
just
don't want to spend any serious money on software for this purpose :-)

I realize that I could find programs via Google but I'm hoping to save
time
by asking the experts here for their recommendations of the best programs
for my purpose.

--
Rhino

Try STATLOOK http://www.aplusc-systems.com
you will see more then you expected,
regards,
bart

How does this help me generate a family tree? Statlock monitors the usage of

computers by employees and has nothing to do with genealogy.

--
Rhino

Tim Heaney

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Tim Heaney » 15 apr 2006 14:32:36

"Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42@verizon.net> writes:
It might require some gnome-related packages, but it does
not require the actual Gnome "desktop environment" be in
use. It works just fine with _no_ "desktop environment" on
my Mandriva Linux 2006 system using OpenMotif as a window
manager.

Yeah, I don't use the Gnome desktop either; I use Xfce

http://www.xfce.org/

It's the GNOME libraries that are needed by GRAMPS. It doesn't matter
what window manager you use.

Denis Beauregard

Re: Software recommendation for family tree?

Legg inn av Denis Beauregard » 15 apr 2006 15:46:36

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 08:49:58 -0400, "Rhino"
<no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com> wrote in
soc.genealogy.computing:

How does this help me generate a family tree? Statlock monitors the usage of
computers by employees and has nothing to do with genealogy.

This is a spammer. Plonk his address and you'll never see his junk
again.


Denis

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