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| 653747 | 2008-03-28 22:16:00 | I am looking at creating my family tree, I have most of the info now dating back over 200 years, just need a recommendation for a good easy to use method of creation. Are there any good free applications out there or can it be done somehow in MS office. I have office 03 pro. :punk :thanks in advance. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 653748 | 2008-03-28 22:37:00 | Go to sourceforge.net and search on Family Tree. You should find hundreds... |
zcc (50) | ||
| 653749 | 2008-03-28 22:51:00 | Go to sourceforge.net and search on Family Tree. You should find hundreds... Finding a good one on the other hand will involve a bit of sifting. Sourceforge has some very good projects, but also some which are completely unusable. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 653750 | 2008-03-28 23:02:00 | Don't know if you're interested but there's a few online websites that are based on family trees in a social web sense. Geni (www.geni.com/) has been around for about a year is considered the best of the lot, it's also free. A couple of other similar websites are Kindo (http:) and It's Your Tree (http://www.itsourtree.com/), both also free. Back to the traditional desktop app, Linux has GRAMPS (www.gramps-project.org/) (with an experimental Windows installer (http:)), Mac has Synium (www.synium.de) and Windows has a bunch, but a free one I came across is Family Tree Builder (www.myheritage.com). |
sal (67) | ||
| 653751 | 2008-03-29 03:27:00 | but a free one I came across is Family Tree Builder (www.myheritage.com). Thanks Sal trying this one seems to be working good so far started with my Great grandparents from 1886. :thanks |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 653752 | 2008-03-29 03:59:00 | I am looking at creating my family tree, I have most of the info now dating back over 200 years, just need a recommendation for a good easy to use method of creation. Are there any good free applications out there or can it be done somehow in MS office. I have office 03 pro. :punk :thanks in advance. Be careful to do a lotof invetigating nefore choosing. A first thing is to decide what it is you wish to record and how you wish to present it. Do a rearch on Google for Genealogy Programs - you may be surprised at how many. What is the end purpose of your exercise ? Some folk wish a few charts for the family, and others , once they get into it, find that they should have started with a better genealogy prog with more options. Have a look over Legacy as an example, and PAF. Cheers Tony |
TonyF (246) | ||
| 653753 | 2008-03-29 04:36:00 | Have used PAF from www.FamilySearch.org from Ver1 and now onto PAF5.2, have found it ideal and very easy to use and of course it's free. Legacy6 is very good too but find it's screen rather cramped, and it's free. Family Tree Maker is probably the best on the market and of course it costs. Lurking |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 653754 | 2008-03-29 07:14:00 | The best is PAF as recommended by LURKING. It is free. |
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