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- MS-06: Genealogy
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- Brother's Keeper
- Steed, John, ASP
- $45
- #27046/1271 [4 disks]
- is a powerful genealogical program that can handle up to 1 million names. It
- will print descendant charts which show how anyone in the file is related to
- everyone else, ancestor charts, family group sheets and descendant trees. You
- can enter a total of five dates and five places per person. There can be up to
- 24 children per marriage and an occupation (or other) field.
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- Enhanced printouts can be made with support for laser printers, including a
- birthday list for all living relatives. You can use ? in place of first or
- last name when searching or printing. Word searches can be field specific and
- include "and" and "or" searches.
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- Other features include automatic checking for a name that is similar and
- asking if that is the name you want, the ability to print a birthday list for
- living relatives, an "Ahnentafel" list, an option to print spouse names and
- birth date on Tree charts, the ability to print six generations on one page
- with certain printers, user-assigned reference codes, mailing address
- printouts, and more. Requires 512K.
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- ChroNos 2.18
- Cascoly Software, ASP
- $30
- #2965 (10-93 CD)
- is an historical timelines program that allows you to trace patterns across
- different eras and cultures. You can print multi-page reports which present a
- scaled timeline for people and events, and sort and select by individual
- people and events, or groups and factions. This is a serious tool for those
- interested in history, art, and genealogy. You can add data, such as your own
- family tree, to the data files and see the events that were going on around
- the time of each of your ancestors.
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- Cumberland Tree 3.4
- Lund, Ira J., ASP
- $30
- #3242
- (formerly Easy-Tree) keeps your family-tree organized. It allows entry of
- individual names, including the international style with surname allowed at
- the beginning, middle or end of name, the birth, christening, marriage, death
- and burial dates and places tying them all together automatically as a family
- and extended family structure.
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- It will print pedigree charts, family group sheets, individual and marriage
- listings, and ordinance check lists. The program can automatically track
- relationships of all individuals. Reports that can be generated include
- Ahnentafel, Descendent, Time Line, Statistics, Birthday List, Anniversary
- List, and Missing Information. Requires a high-capacity or hard drive.
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- EZ-Tree 2.11
- Hass, Jim, ASP
- $42
- #4970
- is a genealogy program to track and report on family trees. The program
- records information in variable length records and fields. You can keep track
- of up to 16 marriages per person and up to 32 children per marriage. There
- are provisions currently in the program to handle 90 different family trees
- with 150 people and marriages per family tree.
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- Family Tree Journal
- Cherry Tree Software, ASP
- $35
- #27723/4184 [3 disks]
- allows you to create family history books documenting the lives of over 32,000
- family members. Up to nine pages of biographical information can be included for
- each individual. Room is available for recording cause of death, occupation,
- church affiliation, or other data, as well as standard genealogical data. It
- then sorts, merges, and compiles this information into book form.
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- Family Scrapbook 1.15
- Long, Christopher E., ASP
- $42
- #27862/4638 [2 disks]
- is a powerful genealogy program that can handle multiple databases of up to
- 65,535 persons each. Print-outs include pedigree charts, lineage charts,
- relationship diagrams, register charts, descendancy charts, timeline
- reports, and various lists. Other features include GEDCOM import/export
- abilities, EMS support, backup and restore facilities, help screens, hotkey
- support, and much more. Requires 640k and hard disk.
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- Family Tree Print
- Common Sense Software, ASP
- $28
- #(see numbers below)
- helps in the printing of genealogical information. You can obtain a variety of
- family printouts, wall charts and indexes. Printer support includes Epson,
- HPLJ's, and PostScript printers. Three different versions are available:
- #3528: FTP for GEDCOM (Brother's Keeper), #3529: FTP 1.2d for Family Ties, and
- #3530: FTP 2.2d for Personal Ancestral File by the LDS church. (See elsewhere
- in this section for write-ups of these programs.)
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- Family History System [FAMILY] (11-93 CD)
- Brown, Phillip E.
- $35
- #27220/129 [3 disks]
- is a very popular, complete genealogy program with reports. It supports many
- printers, including the HP LaserJet. It has an export/import feature and a
- utility for checking and correcting errors in FHS Family file pointer fields.
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- Among the many reports it will produce are an All-Generation Ancestor Chart.
- The family group reports can include a line which shows the relationship and
- lineage of the subject of the report.
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- Gene
- Micro-Art
- $9
- #27220/1136
- is a genealogy program. It is an integrated text editor which can also be used
- by itself for editing text files. Searches are case insensitive to allow easier
- look-ups.
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- Genealogical Information Manager 2.2 [GIM] (11-93 CD)
- Wasden, David Blain and Madsen, Brian Clark
- $20
- #12576
- is a full-featured genealogical information manager. It includes the
- basic features of a traditional genealogical database manager including
- GEDCOM compatibility, standard pedigree chart, and family group record
- forms.
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- Other features include an innovative method of grouping family history
- data into folders, full compatibility with Ancestral File and other
- FamilySearch products, LDS temple ordinances support, source and
- research notes for every vital statistic and for each person and family,
- sophisticated database querying capability, ability to merge new
- information into existing genealogical data, ability to split subsets of
- existing information into smaller data sets, and full utilization of
- available computer resources, including support for EMS memory if
- present. Requires a hard disk. Available on 3.5" 1.44mb MegaDisk and CD
- only.
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- Horses
- Anderson, Jay H.
- $35
- #853
- maintains data records of individual horses, breedings and notes for horse
- breeders. Be sure to run the Setup and specify a data drive that matches your
- system.
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- Pedigree
- Orange, Charles H.
- $40
- #2142
- keeps track of dog pedigree and title records. Reports generated include
- three-to seven-generation pedigrees, seven-generation line breeding lists,
- lines of descendancy and top producing sire and dam lists. The complete
- selection of A.K.C. awards may be entered as well as data from other sources.
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- Progenitor
- #27221/448
- is a genealogy program. The program maintains data records of individuals,
- marriages and notes. The program does pedigree charts (six generations); lists
- of descendants; listing of the database sorted alphabetically by last name or
- numerically by ID; output of records to screen or printer and more.
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- The Family
- Slone, J. Eric
- $20
- #27221/1529
- is a genealogy program. The really unique feature is that it can use variant
- length data records. For example, let's say that the two lines allotted to
- notes on the screen are not enough for the data that you wish to store for a
- relative. Simply use your word processor to create a file containing the
- information you wish to include in the database. That file can then be linked
- in with the standard note fields. A hard disk and a text editor are
- recommended. (See "Word Processing - Editors" for a text editor.)
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- Tracer
- #27221/500
- is a genealogical program. More specifically, "Tracer is a PAF file-
- compatible system for people who want to use the LDS PAF system, but have only
- one drive, or can't stand how slow it is. If you want to know all the details
- of how it works, refer to your original PAF documentation."
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