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Genealogy Software
There are many computer programs are available which can help to organize and file information about the ancestors and relatives whom you have discovered. You input the information into the computer and the software files the people according to their relationship. You can even generate printed copies of any of the charts for your files.
One of the biggest advantages to using one of these programs is the ease of transferring the information from one person to another. If you happen to meet someone in your research travels who is a very distant relative of yours, who also has input their information into the computer, you can very easily get copies of each other’s information by simply making copies of their files on a CD-ROM. In the absence of a computer, you would either have to make photocopies or copy everything by hand, which would be very time consuming.
Here are some programs that you may find useful:-
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Encore Released: 2006-08-15 CD-ROM (PC) Windows 98/Windows 2000
![Family Tree Maker Version 16 Essentials [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H8H8AQYXL._SL160_.jpg) | List Price: $29.95 Lowest New Price: $13.85 (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - 3-month Ancestry.com subscription, genealogy newsletter, training DVD, and more
- Access more than 5 billion records; search online family-history collection
- Share unique keepsakes with family and friends; print out family albums
Product Description: Family Tree Maker Essentials Edition v16 makes it fast and easy to research your family history. The software provides an easy and complete resource for building and sharing your family tree. It takes just three steps. First, access more than five billion records and search through the world's largest online family-history collection. Next, organize and design your family tree. Import photos and documents to professionally designed templates to create a unique keepsake. Finally, share your findings with family and friends. Print out professional-quality family albums. Bonuses include an Ancestry.com subscription, a 30-minute genealogy consultation, the monthly newsletter, and more! Official family-tree training DVD |
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Encore Released: 2007-08-28 CD-ROM (PC) Windows Vista
 | List Price: $29.95 Lowest New Price: $25.23 Lowest Used Price: $24.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - Software for exploring, preserving, and sharing family history
- Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files
- Includes 1 month of premium access to ancestry.com
Product Description: Discover how easy it is to explore, preserve, and share your family history. Whether you're new to family history or a seasoned genealogist, the Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials Edition is designed to help beginners find results fast. One month of premium access to ancestry.com is included. |
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Encore Released: 2007-08-28 CD-ROM (PC) Windows Vista
 | List Price: $99.95 Lowest New Price: $65.39 Lowest Used Price: $89.37 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - Software for exploring, preserving, and sharing family history
- Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files
- Includes 6 months of premium access to ancestry.com
Product Description: Family Tree Maker 2008 Platinum Edition makes it easier than every to explore your roots. Organize your family's precious history, search billions of historical records, create charts, timelines and memory books, and much more! The Platinum Edition includes a 6 month U.S. Deluxe subscription to the Web's largest collection of family history records, and many more bonuses! |
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Leister Productions Inc. CD-ROM
 | List Price: $99.00 Lowest New Price: $89.99 (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - Highest-rated genealogy software for the Mac for 16 years!
- Publish on the web. Carry on your iPod.
- Include pictures, movies, and create slideshows.
Product Description: Reunion is a genealogy software program -- a "family tree program" -- for the Macintosh. Reunion received the highest rating for genealogy software in MacWorld, MacAddict, and Mac Home Journal magazines. Reunion helps you to document, store, and display information about your family -- your ancestors, descendants, cousins, etc. It records names, dates, places, facts, plenty of notes, sources of information, pictures, sounds, and videos. It shows family relationships in an elegant, graphic form -- people and families are linked in an easy-to-understand fashion. Reunion makes it easy to publish your family tree information -- even if you want to share it on the Web or carry it on your iPod. You can automatically create common genealogy reports, charts, and forms, as well as birthday calendars, mailing lists, questionnaires, indexes, and other lists. Reunion even creates slideshows, calculates relationships, ages, life expectancies, and statistics. Reunion also creates large, graphic tree charts allowing complete on-screen editing of boxes, lines, fonts, and colors. Wall charts for family reunions are one of its specialties. |
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RootsMagic Software
 | List Price: $29.95 Lowest New Price: $29.95 Lowest Used Price: $29.00 (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - "The best genealogy program we've seen" - Smart Computing Magazine
- Publish family history books for your family and friends
- Add pictures and other multimedia items to any person in your database
Product Description: Awarded "Editor's Choice" by Heritage Quest Magazine. RootsMagic is an easy to use family tree program with extensive family history reports, multiple navigation views, photos, publishing, and website creation features. RootsMagic supports unlimited people, families, events, notes, and photos. Users can print complete books (where the program writes the sentences for each event), spectacular charts, forms, lists, and even create custom reports. RootsMagic program also provides multiple database support (with drag and drop), SourceWizard, todo lists, powerful merge features, and more. Full GEDCOM support allows users to easily share their data with others, or to easily import their data from other programs. Create shareable CDs of your data and photos to send to your family and friends. From the makers of Family Origins. |
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Encore Released: 2007-08-28 CD-ROM (PC) Windows XP
 | List Price: $69.95 Lowest New Price: $41.20 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - Software for exploring, preserving, and sharing family history
- Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files
- Includes 3 months of premium access to ancestry.com
Product Description: Family Tree Maker integrates seamlessly with Ancestry.com, allowing you to easily access the world's largest online collection of family history records. Ancestry.com is home to many different types of records, including census, military, immigration, land and probate records, just to name a few. |
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RootsMagic CD-ROM
 | List Price: $29.95 Lowest New Price: $29.95 (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - Write down thoughts and memories as they come to you and organize them later.
- Add your existing word processor documents and photographs.
- Publish your completed histories to printer, word processor, or PDF.
Product Description: Personal Historian is software which assists you in writing personal histories, memoirs, and biographies about yourself, your family, and other individuals. It breaks this seemingly monumental task into small, manageable pieces and then reconstructs it into a complete, publishable document. From start to finish, Personal Historian makes writing a life story fast, fun, and easy. |
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RootsMagic CD-ROM
 | Lowest New Price: $29.95 Lowest Used Price: $21.00 (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - Step by step checklist makes reunion planning easy
- Dozens of printouts including nametags, invitations, mail labels, family directory and more
- Track budget, assignments, schedule, and more
Product Description: It's never been this easy to plan your family reunion. Family Reunion Organizer is a complete reunion planning software developed by the creators of Family-Reunion.com, the world's most popular family reunion planning website. Just click on an item in Family Reunion Organizer's check list, then fill in the blanks. When you finish a task, just check it off as completed. Enter your family names and addresses, and track your budget, schedule, assignments and other reunion information. Family Reunion Organizer offers dozens of printouts, including invitations, name tags, address lists and labels, award certificates, reminders and much more. You can even create a family reunion web page directly from the information you enter. |
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Encore Released: 2006-02-21 CD-ROM (PC) Windows XP
 | List Price: $69.99 Lowest Used Price: $44.65 (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | - Includes Ancestry.com subscription, consultation, training DVD, and more
- Browse the world's largest online family history library
- Share background and family tree with relatives and friends
Product Description: Research your family history with Family Tree Maker(r), the #1 selling genealogy program for 15 years / Access more than5 billion records |
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Encore Released: 2007-09-25 CD-ROM (PC) Windows Vista
 | List Price: $29.99 Lowest New Price: $25.23 Lowest Used Price: $27.73 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 11:41 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info)
Click Here | Product Description: Discover how easy it is to explore, preserve, and share your family history. Whether you're new to family history or a seasoned genealogist, the Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials Edition is designed to help beginners find results fast. One month of premium access to ancestry.com is included. |
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