Genealogy software list

[Paul Blair]

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Cheers, and thanks in advance.

Paul Blair
Australia

The list (E&OE)

Agelong Tree
Ages
Ancestors & Descendants
Ancestral Quest
BirthWrite
Brother's Keeper
Cognatio
Cumberland Family Tree
Custodian
DoroTree
Embla Family Treasures
EziTree
Family Historian
Family Matters
Family Origins
Family Reunion/Software
Family Tracker
Family Tree Maker
Family Tree Super Tools
Family View
GedStar Basic
GedStar Plus
GedStar Pro
GenBox
Genealogia
Generations Grand Suite
GeneWeaver
GeneWeb
Genius Family Tree
Heredis
Kinship Archivist
Kith and Kin (Of That Ilk)
LDS Companion
Legacy
Lifelines
MyRoots
Parents
Personal Ancestral File
Pocket Genealogist Advanced
Pocket Genealogist Basic
Relatively Yours
Reunion
RootsMagic
The Master Genealogist
TreeDraw
WinFamily
WinTree

[John Carruthers]

You might like to add PAF Companion and World Place Finder
"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream stuff,
and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone HTML
generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Cheers, and thanks in advance.

Paul Blair
Australia

The list (E&OE)

Agelong Tree
Ages
Ancestors & Descendants
Ancestral Quest
BirthWrite
Brother's Keeper
Cognatio
Cumberland Family Tree
Custodian
DoroTree
Embla Family Treasures
EziTree
Family Historian
Family Matters
Family Origins
Family Reunion/Software
Family Tracker
Family Tree Maker
Family Tree Super Tools
Family View
GedStar Basic
GedStar Plus
GedStar Pro
GenBox
Genealogia
Generations Grand Suite
GeneWeaver
GeneWeb
Genius Family Tree
Heredis
Kinship Archivist
Kith and Kin (Of That Ilk)
LDS Companion
Legacy
Lifelines
MyRoots
Parents
Personal Ancestral File
Pocket Genealogist Advanced
Pocket Genealogist Basic
Relatively Yours
Reunion
RootsMagic
The Master Genealogist
TreeDraw
WinFamily
WinTree

[Thor]

John Carruthers wrote:

You might like to add PAF Companion and World Place Finder
"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software
available for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the
main-stream stuff,
and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone HTML
generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is
for Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have
missed. If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

[Robert Heiling]

Paul Blair wrote:

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Cheers, and thanks in advance.

Paul Blair
Australia

The list (E&OE)

Agelong Tree
Ages
Ancestors & Descendants
Ancestral Quest
BirthWrite
Brother's Keeper
Cognatio
Cumberland Family Tree
Custodian
DoroTree
Embla Family Treasures
EziTree
Family Historian
Family Matters
Family Origins
Family Reunion/Software
Family Tracker
Family Tree Maker
Family Tree Super Tools
Family View
GedStar Basic
GedStar Plus
GedStar Pro
GenBox
Genealogia
Generations Grand Suite
GeneWeaver
GeneWeb
Genius Family Tree
Heredis
Kinship Archivist
Kith and Kin (Of That Ilk)
LDS Companion
Legacy
Lifelines
MyRoots
Parents
Personal Ancestral File
Pocket Genealogist Advanced
Pocket Genealogist Basic
Relatively Yours
Reunion
RootsMagic
The Master Genealogist
TreeDraw
WinFamily
WinTree

Here some to add:

GenealogyJ - a very nice full free Java application. Windows, Linux, Mac
http://genj.sourceforge.net/

Ged2HTML - gedcom to webpage generator. Windows
http://www.starkeffect.com/ged2html/

GedPage - gedcom to webpage generator. Windows, Mac
http://www.frontiernet.net/~rjacob/gedpage.htm

GedTree - gedcom to webpage generator. free, Windows
http://www.otway.com/family/docs/gedtree.html

HTH
Bob

[Robert Heiling]

Thor wrote:

John Carruthers wrote:

You might like to add PAF Companion and World Place Finder
"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software
available for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the
main-stream stuff,
and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone HTML
generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is
for Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have
missed. If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.


Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

Without meaning to offend, I feel forced to express my honest opinion that
Gramps is worthless.

Bob

[Thor]

Robert Heiling wrote:

Thor wrote:

John Carruthers wrote:


Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

Without meaning to offend, I feel forced to express my honest opinion
that Gramps is worthless.

Bob

And you base this opinion on what..

[Dale DePriest]

Robert Heiling wrote:

Paul Blair wrote:


I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Cheers, and thanks in advance.

Paul Blair
Australia

The list (E&OE)

Agelong Tree
Ages
Ancestors & Descendants
Ancestral Quest
BirthWrite
Brother's Keeper
Cognatio
Cumberland Family Tree
Custodian
DoroTree
Embla Family Treasures
EziTree
Family Historian
Family Matters
Family Origins
Family Reunion/Software
Family Tracker
Family Tree Maker
Family Tree Super Tools
Family View
GedStar Basic
GedStar Plus
GedStar Pro
GenBox
Genealogia
Generations Grand Suite
GeneWeaver
GeneWeb
Genius Family Tree
Heredis
Kinship Archivist
Kith and Kin (Of That Ilk)
LDS Companion
Legacy
Lifelines
MyRoots
Parents
Personal Ancestral File
Pocket Genealogist Advanced
Pocket Genealogist Basic
Relatively Yours
Reunion
RootsMagic
The Master Genealogist
TreeDraw
WinFamily
WinTree


Here some to add:

GenealogyJ - a very nice full free Java application. Windows, Linux, Mac
http://genj.sourceforge.net/

Ged2HTML - gedcom to webpage generator. Windows
http://www.starkeffect.com/ged2html/

GedPage - gedcom to webpage generator. Windows, Mac
http://www.frontiernet.net/~rjacob/gedpage.htm

GedTree - gedcom to webpage generator. free, Windows
http://www.otway.com/family/docs/gedtree.html

HTH
Bob

GEDcomToHTML - gedcom to webpage written in perl so it runs
on any platform that supports perl.
http://www.pidcock.co.uk/gth/

--
_ _ Dale DePriest
/`) _ // http://users.cwnet.com/dalede
o/_/ (_(_X_(` For GPS and GPS/PDAs

[Bob Melson]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:54:54 +1100, Paul Blair wrote:

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream stuff,
and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone HTML
generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Linux/unix:

Gramps
phpGedView

--
Robert G. Melson | Nothing is more terrible than
Rio Grande MicroSolutions | ignorance in action.
El Paso, Texas | Goethe
melsonr(at)earthlink(dot)net

[Bob Melson]

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:38:41 -0800, Robert Heiling wrote:

Thor wrote:

snip
Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

Without meaning to offend, I feel forced to express my honest opinion that
Gramps is worthless.

Bob

In what respect? I've found it quite useful, tho' not the best thing
since sliced bread.

Oh, and BTW: ftree for linux/unix.

The Other Bob


--
Robert G. Melson | Nothing is more terrible than
Rio Grande MicroSolutions | ignorance in action.
El Paso, Texas | Goethe
melsonr(at)earthlink(dot)net

[Robert Heiling]

Thor wrote:

Robert Heiling wrote:


Thor wrote:


John Carruthers wrote:


Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

Without meaning to offend, I feel forced to express my honest opinion
that Gramps is worthless.

Bob



And you base this opinion on what..

Personal experience. I have one of my databases loaded into Gramps for
the sake of testing it and taking it for a test drive. It's not software
that I would ever use the terms "extremely good" in relation to. That's
an undeserved hyperbole IMHO. I don't care for the various screen
presentations and, as has been repeatedly said in these newsgroups, it's
the individual tastes that will cause us to choose one program over
another. I also can't find a scrollable list of the people. Perhaps I am
missing something, but all I see is that alphabetic scheme. Not my cup
of tea.

Bob

[Thor]

Robert Heiling wrote:

Thor wrote:
Robert Heiling wrote:


Thor wrote:


John Carruthers wrote:


Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

Without meaning to offend, I feel forced to express my honest opinion
that Gramps is worthless.

Bob



And you base this opinion on what..

Personal experience. I have one of my databases loaded into Gramps for
the sake of testing it and taking it for a test drive. It's not
software that I would ever use the terms "extremely good" in relation
to. That's an undeserved hyperbole IMHO. I don't care for the various
screen presentations and, as has been repeatedly said in these
newsgroups, it's the individual tastes that will cause us to choose one
program over another. I also can't find a scrollable list of the
people. Perhaps I am missing something, but all I see is that
alphabetic scheme. Not my cup of tea.

Bob

What you are saying is that because it won't scroll through the names as
you would like, but instead gives a alphabetical list of surnames it is
worthless. I find it very useful and easy to use and hardly worthless.
Since the scroll list is so important and determines whether a program is
good or worthless, write to the author he is extremly responsive.

[Robert Heiling]

Thor wrote:

Robert Heiling wrote:
Thor wrote:
Robert Heiling wrote:

Thor wrote:

John Carruthers wrote:

Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

Without meaning to offend, I feel forced to express my honest opinion
that Gramps is worthless.

Bob

And you base this opinion on what..

Personal experience. I have one of my databases loaded into Gramps for
the sake of testing it and taking it for a test drive. It's not
software that I would ever use the terms "extremely good" in relation
to. That's an undeserved hyperbole IMHO. I don't care for the various
screen presentations and, as has been repeatedly said in these
newsgroups, it's the individual tastes that will cause us to choose one
program over another. I also can't find a scrollable list of the
people. Perhaps I am missing something, but all I see is that
alphabetic scheme. Not my cup of tea.

Bob

What you are saying is that because it won't scroll through the names as
you would like, but instead gives a alphabetical list of surnames it is
worthless.

I certainly don't care for clicking letters of the alphabet and then clicking
further from that point. And then repeating that process for the next person
.. . .

I find it very useful and easy to use and hardly worthless.

Then perhaps we could compromise and agree that it's somewhere between
"extremely good" and "worthless"?

Since the scroll list is so important and determines whether a program is
good or worthless, write to the author he is extremly responsive.

I'll leave that chore to others as I already have a plateful and need to deal
with those authors.

Bob

[Steve Hayes]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:54:54 +1100, Paul Blair <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Are you collecting only the names of programs currently being developed, or
also ones that are no longer being developed, though people may still be using
them?
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

[Steve Hayes]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:52:09 GMT, Bob Melson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:38:41 -0800, Robert Heiling wrote:

Thor wrote:

snip
Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

Without meaning to offend, I feel forced to express my honest opinion that
Gramps is worthless.

Bob

In what respect? I've found it quite useful, tho' not the best thing
since sliced bread.

I've never tried using sliced bread for storing genealogy data, and don't much
like it for having with jam or peanut butter either.


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

[Paul Blair]

Steve Hayes wrote:

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:54:54 +1100, Paul Blair <[email protected]> wrote:


I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.


Are you collecting only the names of programs currently being developed, or
also ones that are no longer being developed, though people may still be using
them?

Hi Steve:

I said "available", which wasn't very clear. What I should have said was
"currently available", as in there to buy for the present generation.

All of the comments and notes so far have been helpful - thanks to
everyone for their replies. The idea is just to get a "shopping list",
then, perhaps, I might try to be a bit more explicit about them. But as
any list might have a life of, say, 3 months, I'm hurrying to finish the
present list.

Oh, and the platform can be anything - PC, Mac, etc etc.

Again, thanks to everyone...I appreciate your comments.

Paul

[Paul McRory]

I've used the following, which are still going strong:

GenDesigner, at:

http://www.gendesigner.com/

or GenoPro, at:

http://www.genopro.com/

I prefer the former, but they both seem to be good.

Paul

"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Cheers, and thanks in advance.

Paul Blair
Australia

The list (E&OE)

Agelong Tree
Ages
Ancestors & Descendants
Ancestral Quest
BirthWrite
Brother's Keeper
Cognatio
Cumberland Family Tree
Custodian
DoroTree
Embla Family Treasures
EziTree
Family Historian
Family Matters
Family Origins
Family Reunion/Software
Family Tracker
Family Tree Maker
Family Tree Super Tools
Family View
GedStar Basic
GedStar Plus
GedStar Pro
GenBox
Genealogia
Generations Grand Suite
GeneWeaver
GeneWeb
Genius Family Tree
Heredis
Kinship Archivist
Kith and Kin (Of That Ilk)
LDS Companion
Legacy
Lifelines
MyRoots
Parents
Personal Ancestral File
Pocket Genealogist Advanced
Pocket Genealogist Basic
Relatively Yours
Reunion
RootsMagic
The Master Genealogist
TreeDraw
WinFamily
WinTree

[Helen Castle]

Paul are you aware of Mumfords report card on genealogy programs?
http://www.mumford.ca/reportcard/index.htm

It is limited in the number it deals with

Helen Castle
Narangba Qld

"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Steve Hayes wrote:
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:54:54 +1100, Paul Blair <[email protected]
wrote:


I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream stuff,
and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone HTML
generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.


Are you collecting only the names of programs currently being developed,
or
also ones that are no longer being developed, though people may still be
using
them?

Hi Steve:

I said "available", which wasn't very clear. What I should have said was
"currently available", as in there to buy for the present generation.

All of the comments and notes so far have been helpful - thanks to
everyone for their replies. The idea is just to get a "shopping list",
then, perhaps, I might try to be a bit more explicit about them. But as
any list might have a life of, say, 3 months, I'm hurrying to finish the
present list.

Oh, and the platform can be anything - PC, Mac, etc etc.

Again, thanks to everyone...I appreciate your comments.

Paul

[Jens Arvidsson]

Thor <[email protected]> writes:

Or remember that there are other OS's apart from windows

Gramps is for linux and extreme;y good.

On Linux, my vote goes to Lifelines. Its scripting language makes it
the most powerful genealogy software tool that I know of. And, it runs
on Windows and Mac OS X as well.

[singhals]

Paul Blair wrote:

The list (E&OE)

DoroTree
Embla Family Treasures
EziTree
Family Historian

Has Australia's own Eucalyptus vanished? I wouldn't use it for a main
database (the trial version has no GED), but it was cute for the under-13s.

Cheryl

[Peter]

Paul Blair wrote:

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Hasn't this already been done? For example, ...
http://www.cyndislist.com/software.htm


Peter

[Susie Zada]

Hi Paul,

"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

I said "available", which wasn't very clear. What I should have said was
"currently available", as in there to buy for the present generation.

If that's the case then you should remove Generations - apparently the last
place in the world that there were stocks for purchase was VicGUM in
Melbourne - those stocks are now gone and therefore Generations isn't
"currently available".

Regards ........ Susie Z

[Robert G. Eldridge]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:54:54 +1100, Paul Blair <[email protected]>
wrote:

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

I see you have missed one of the Australian apps, Fzip Family Tree
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~acroft/

--
Bob, who uses another one of the Australian apps you listed.

[Joe Barr]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:54:54 +1100, Paul Blair wrote:

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

Here's my present list - not exhaustive, not comprehensive. This is for
Australia, but I'd welcome news of any main program I might have missed.
If you have a reference URL, that would be good, too.

Cheers, and thanks in advance.

Paul Blair
Australia

Paul,

For Linux users there are several choices. I reviewed one called GRAMPS a
couple of weeks ago. It has its own database, but can speak GED and
export to Web Family Tree as well. Lots of different reports in text or
graphics form, in various formats including PDF and HTML. Handles images.
Has LDS extensions. Plug-in architecture.

They say it slows down when you get over 10,000 individuals in the
database, but since I'm just starting and only have 200, it doesn't seem a
problem to me. I don't have a basis for comparison as its the only family
tracking program I've used, but I will say that it has me addicted to
doing family research in just a few weeks use.

Oh, and of course it is free software, as in beer and speech.

Joe

[singhals]

Joe Barr wrote:

Has LDS extensions.

Slightly off the intended topic, but pro bono advice:

The fact that your program will produce a file with LDS extensions does
**NOT** mean you've a file the Temple can use for the purpose intended.

If you're not a Mormon, don't worry about. If you are Mormon, you'd
better understand what I said and talk to your friendly local FHC about it.

OTOH, if what Joe meant was that the program will show ordinance dates,
please ignore above. (g)

Cheryl
non-Mormon FHC volunteer

[Jenny Bowden]

Hi Paul,

Have you seen Genota? It's an Australian written research manager
tool which allows for notes to be filed under categories, included
persons, address books, links to some of the family history software
packages, you can link to any file in your computer, and it is web
activated and does lots of stuff.
You can see it at http://www.genota.com

Regards
Jenny

[Tom Perrett]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:16:17 +1100, Susie Zada wrote:

Hi Paul,

"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I said "available", which wasn't very clear. What I should have said was
"currently available", as in there to buy for the present generation.

If that's the case then you should remove Generations - apparently the last
place in the world that there were stocks for purchase was VicGUM in
Melbourne - those stocks are now gone and therefore Generations isn't
"currently available".

Regards ........ Susie Z

Errr, much as I tremble to disagree with the redoubtable Susie,
I must point out that it is still for sale in a place in the world.

I have in front of me the Feb 2005 issue of (UK) "Your
Family Tree" which on page 89 has an ad. by TWR
Computing which includes for sale

- Generations v8.5a
- Generatioms v8.5a upgrade



















Cheers,

Tom [Tom Perrett] <[email protected]>
Proud to be member of Melbournee DPS, first
port of call re Victorian research - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dpsoc

[Chad Hanna]

In message <[email protected]>, Tom Perrett
<[email protected]> writes

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:16:17 +1100, Susie Zada wrote:

Hi Paul,

"Paul Blair" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
I said "available", which wasn't very clear. What I should have said was
"currently available", as in there to buy for the present generation.

If that's the case then you should remove Generations - apparently the last
place in the world that there were stocks for purchase was VicGUM in
Melbourne - those stocks are now gone and therefore Generations isn't
"currently available".

Regards ........ Susie Z

Errr, much as I tremble to disagree with the redoubtable Susie,
I must point out that it is still for sale in a place in the world.

I have in front of me the Feb 2005 issue of (UK) "Your
Family Tree" which on page 89 has an ad. by TWR
Computing which includes for sale

- Generations v8.5a
- Generatioms v8.5a upgrade

I wouldn't be so sure! With the time these magazines take to hit the

streets they've probably already run out - at least that is what my
sources say. Trevor Rix hasn't put a price against it on their web site
at http://www.twrcomputing.co.uk and suggests you phone or email.

Chad
--
Chad Hanna
Chairman Berkshire Family History Society http://www.berksfhs.org.uk
Quality Family History Data http://www.familyhistoryonline.net

[Sherry]

"Tom Perrett" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

<snip>

Errr, much as I tremble to disagree with the redoubtable Susie,
I must point out that it is still for sale in a place in the world.

I have in front of me the Feb 2005 issue of (UK) "Your
Family Tree" which on page 89 has an ad. by TWR
Computing which includes for sale

- Generations v8.5a
- Generatioms v8.5a upgrade

Maybe for sale, but not supported. I picked up a copy at Best Buy in
the US last year. I wouldn't think that it would be a good idea to
list a program that is selling the last of the stock and not being
supported!

Sherry

[Tom Perrett]

"Tom Perrett" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

snip

Errr, much as I tremble to disagree with the redoubtable Susie,
I must point out that it is still for sale in a place in the world.

I have in front of me the Feb 2005 issue of (UK) "Your
Family Tree" which on page 89 has an ad. by TWR
Computing which includes for sale

- Generations v8.5a
- Generatioms v8.5a upgrade

Ooops, a bit more (belated) reading shows that
Family Tree Magazine, December 2004, shows in
Eric Probert's column that TWR sold their last
copies.

So our Susia was CORRECT after all,

Question - do you put sauce on humble pie?



Cheers,

Tom [Tom Perrett] <[email protected]>
Proud to be member of Melbournee DPS, first
port of call re Victorian research - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dpsoc

[Susie Zada]

Hi Tom,

I wouldn't dream of suggesting you eat humble pie!! <vbg> Anyway I thought
that was the benefit of mailing lists / newsgroups etc. - different people
contribute information they have to hand and others may have more recent
information to contribute. How else would we learn?

I just think it's very nice of you to admit / comment on it - a lot of
people don't!

Now, about the sauce bit ......... I'm allergic to tomato sauce so my answer
would be an emphatic NO!!

Regards ........ Susie Z

"Tom Perrett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

Ooops, a bit more (belated) reading shows that
Family Tree Magazine, December 2004, shows in
Eric Probert's column that TWR sold their last
copies.

So our Susia was CORRECT after all,

Question - do you put sauce on humble pie?

[Bill Cribbs]

Hi all,
GenealogyBuff.com http://www.genealogybuff.com has
just added some Vietnam casualties data to the library
and is located at http://www.genealogybuff.com/misc/
It is however, searchable from the library page at
http://www.genealogybuff.com/library.htm
The data covers Army, Air Force, Marines, and Navy and
mainly covers casualties from 1961 to 1965.
Hope this helps.
--
Bill

[Udo & Jo Ann]

I am looking for a program that will do a "conditional" search and
replace...

My problem: I am putting the local protestant parish book into a genealogy
program... Now, over 8000 entries later )), I want to add "reliegion =
protestant" IF the person was christened (i.e. has a date for the
christening) - on top of that I want to add the date of the christening to
"religion".

Any suggestions? I've been thinking of, if need be using Word's search and
replace function, but a) I have big arguments with it when searching and
replacing strings and b) I don't know what else it would do to my GEDCOM...

Thanks in advance.

Jo Ann

[Herman Viaene]

Paul Blair wrote:

I'm putting together a list of the principal items of software available
for genealogy. At this point, I'm checking through the main-stream
stuff, and may have time to do the utility "extras" (eg stand-alone
HTML generators)later.

snip the list...

Apart from Gramps, which others also pointed to, there is also "Hazadata"
see http://www.hazadata.com

the program is largely used in Belgium, but .........
the current version is still a DOS prog, with all consequences that has when
you are running a newer OS. I have run it from Win2K, and it basically
works, but keep a manual at hand since you need to remember a lot of Alt-A
, Ctrl-whatever stuff.
The data I have, have been entered by my late mother, so I am not sure how
these data got in there, but when I transfered these to Gramps, a lot of
problems came up:
there were quite a lot of data corruptions (double links most of it), but
more annoying is the way it handles names: a name is a single field, no
separate surname - christian name.
So when you export a GEDCOM file from it, the prog splits the name at the
first blank, ex. John James Smith comes out as christian name John ,
surname James Smith.
So be warned when you get info from such source

Herman Viaene

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