Genealogy Software

The GenealogySoftware Toolbox contains a catalog of software products with information with which to make comparisons.

Many companies that sell genealogy software have web sites.

A lot of Free, Shareware, or Demo Genealogy software is available on the internet.

The PSU Genealogy ftp site, ftp.cac.psu.edu.
The Genealogy Online FTP archives - ftp.genealogy.org.
Lifelines is a free genealogy program for Linux, Unix and DOS.
JavaTree is a portable system to dynamically create and maintain web pages based on genealogy databases.
FamilyTree a tree builder and browser for the web
Familia converts Family Tree Maker Descendant Trees to web pages

GENTECH is a non-profit organization to educate genealogists in the use of technology for gathering, storing, sharing and evaluating their research.

The Macintosh Genealogy Software FAQ gives descriptions of most Macintosh Genealogy programs.

PAF

Personal Ancestral File 4.0 is available for free download from the LDS Family Search site.

Mike St. Clair publishes PAF Review, an electronic newsletter for users of PAF or GEDCOM.
Most PAF utilities are available at the PSU genealogy FTP site.
There are many PAF user groups around the U.S. and the world. Some of these groups with useful hints and information about PAF are the Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, the Southern Oregon PAF Users Group and PAF-Ways, a Genealogy/Computer Interest Group in North Central Iowa.

GEDCOM information

GEDCOM is a file format that is primarily used for exchanging data between different genealogy databases and programs. There are many utilities which can create or operate on GEDCOM files.

Some genealogy programs even use the GEDCOM format as their internal database format. Lifelines is a good example of such software.

Res Privata is program that will filter private details out of GEDCOM files so they can be shared or published.

Programmers and GEDCOM users can download the "GEDCOM Standard release 5.5" in various formats or read an unofficial HTML version. The Family History Research project at Brigham Young University has some information on various GEDCOM related projects.

uFTi is a Windows GEDCOM to HTML converter

Other software

Web Family Tree (v1.1) is free software to dynamically generate web pages of ancestors and descendants with pictures.

Calendar Conversions is an on-line program to convert dates between the Gregorian, Julian, French republican and Jewish calendars.

WWW genealogy databases lists a few examples of genealogy research presented on the web using various software packages.

Bygones is a genealogical notekeeping system for laptops

"Hypertext Indented Narrative" pedigree format

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Last update 08 May 2005