GenSoftReviews - New Programs Added

margaiD

lkessler — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:20:15 +0000

by margaiD
A website to build your family tree online. Other features available or coming include: a sociagram/social graph, biological dna line and mindmap.

GedTree

lkessler — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:48:24 +0000

by Hallab (Hakan Ardo)
A graphical viewer for GEDCOM genealogy files (.ged) that allows you to pan tilt
and zoom a family tree by dragging and pinching. For Android devices.

WP Legacy

lkessler — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:36:19 +0000

by Zipper Software (Dennis Kowallek)
A WordPress Plugin which loads a Legacy Family Tree GEDCOM file into a set of MySQL tables and displays the genealogy data on your website, fitting into the WOrdPress enviornment/architecture. Support for non-Legacy GEDCOM files is on the To-Do list.

ohmiGene (iPad)

lkessler — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:43:33 +0000

by Thierry Nauze
An iPad version of the ohmiGene program. It can exchange data with the Mac version of the program using iTunes. Website is in French.

Date Finder

lkessler — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:37:45 +0000

by Solution Support Services Pty Ltd
Lets you key in the date and age of a person from one document so you can determine the person’s age in other years. Available for the iPhone or iPad.

Timeline

lkessler — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:57:00 +0000

by vérité.co
An open source program for creating timelines, that can attach media from online sources into your timeline. The timeline can be added to your website. Uses JSON as its native data format.

Mocavo Genealogy App

lkessler — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:11:18 +0000

by Mocavo, Inc.
Allows access to the Mocavo Genealogy Search and to the Mocavo Discovery Feed. Allows you to take photos and OCR documents and upload them to the Mocavo Discovery Feed. For iPhone, iPod or iPad.

GenQuiry

lkessler — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:58:28 +0000

by ColeValleyGirl
A program designed to help you manage your family history research. It keeps track of the searches you’ve made and their results, your plans of what to do, which sources are relevant for particular places. It helps you cite your sources consistently and record how you reached a conclusion.

the Ancestors Now Tree Ring Service

lkessler — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:57:07 +0000

by Ancestors Now (Tim Forsythe)
A website builder tha imports all flavors af GEDCOM and GEDCOM like files and builds a website for you. See the ancestorsnow blog.

VGedX Web Service

lkessler — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:50:40 +0000

by Ancestors Now (Tim Forsythe)
This is an online version of the VGed GEDCOM validator and supports validating GEDCOM 5.5, 5.5.1 and 5.6 files.

SimTree (SIMple TREE)

lkessler — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:14:47 +0000

by SimTree.ru (Renat Suleymanov)
A family tree builder that stores cards (individuals) in simple folders on your hard drive. The program and the website are in Russian.

myHistro

lkessler — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:13:36 +0000

by Jaanus Vihand
A tool to combine maps, timelines and photos to create and share stories with friends and family. Can connect to Geni.com to import your family tree.

Legacy Stories

lkessler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:23:15 +0000

by Legacy Stories (Dennis Stack and Tom Cormier)
Provides a secure platform to collect, archive and share legacy stories that represent the living history of the 20th and 21st centuries, and to connect those families to collaboratively build their legacy.

OurFamilyHistories

lkessler — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:20:04 +0000

by Our Family Histories, LLC
An online site to collaborate and share genealogy information as well as media, stories, documents to portray a picture of each individual.

NoteFuser

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:31:59 +0000

by Jimmy Zimmerman
A Google Chrome browser extension to tag the Evernote note keeping program with a FamilySearch person ID or with a Geni person ID to fuse the note to the person on the respective system.

LeafSeek

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:27:55 +0000

by Brooke Schreier Ganz
A tool that helps you turn your genealogical or historical record collections into searchable online databases.

Family Group Folders Online

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:24:54 +0000

by James Taylor
Provides a repository where you can document, preserve and organize your personal family history source materials.

Facetree

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:21:59 +0000

by HITLabNZ (Ellie Rasmus)
Software that enables you to cross-reference genealogical data with people in photographs. It helps identifying faces in photographs through a context filter based on genealogical data. The results of the identification are then stored in the meta data of the image using the XMP standard.

20 Minute Genealogist

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:18:38 +0000

by Twenty Minute Genelogist (Justin York)
A web, iPhone or Android app that uses data from FamilySearch to create an interactive ring chart help you see which ancestors need more work done.

FamilySeek

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:51:23 +0000

by TreeSeek.com (Matt Misbach)
An Android app that allows you to find people you are related to in the nw FamilySearch pedigree tree. You must have an account with new FamilySearch to use this service.

iFamilyTrivia

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:49:17 +0000

by iFamilyTrivia
A custom-made personal family trivia quiz for MyHeritage users.

FamilySearch Indexing

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:39:34 +0000

by FamilySearch International
An Android app that displays image snippets from handwritten historical documents. You transcribe what you see in the image, and the FamilySearch indexing system adds it to the collection of free records at www.familysearch.org.

Ancestry Family Search Extension

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:32:00 +0000

by ???
This Google Chrome browser extension takes the vital information from an Ancestry Family Tree person page and searches FamilySearch.org using those details.

5amily

lkessler — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:13:47 +0000

by 5amily
An online site to build and explore your family, share news and photos, discover relationships to celebrities, remember and honou the deceased, and fully control your private information.

Submit Your Tree

lkessler — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:32:15 +0000

by FamilySearch Labs
Uploads a GEDCOM file and compare it to all the records that are already in new.familysearch.org. It distinguishes between ancestors who are already in new.familysearch.org and those that are not.

My Family Lineage

lkessler — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:20:45 +0000

by Bruce Whealton
An online website for collaborating with others remembering and discovering family histories. Imports GEDCOM files.

yED

lkessler — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:16:59 +0000

by yWorks
A free Java graph editor that can be used to generate high quality diagrams. Includes a layout algorithm for genealogical family trees. Supports importing files in GEDCOM file format.

simplepyged

lkessler — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:46:52 +0000

by Nikola Škorić
An Open Source simple Python GEDCOM parser.

gedcom-ruby

lkessler — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:39:22 +0000

by Phill Davies
An Open Source Ruby library for easily doing custom, callback-based GEDCOM parsing. Mainly written in Ruby, C and XML.

Xurano

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:30:14 +0000

by Heinrich Eichmann
An Open Source graphical genealogy editor to create and edit mid-size family trees (some hundred persons). Each newly added person is automatically placed in the family tree.

Family Tree Analyzer

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:25:30 +0000

by Deryck B. and Levva
An Open Source C# project which aims to allow users to import their GEDCOM files and produce various data analysis reports such as a list of all people not yet found on a census, lists of potential data errors such as missing death date ranges etc.

GenealogyGedcom

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:50:41 +0000

by Ed Thompson
An Open Source GEDCOM 5.5.1 compliant version of the 2008 Open Source PEAR Genealogy_Gedcom package to parse GEDCOM files. This new version will utilize PHP 5.3 and be PEAR2 compliant.

Genealogy_Gedcom

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:45:24 +0000

by Olivier Vanhoucke
A Open Source package to parse GEDCOM files written in PHP.

Árbol Genealógico 3D

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:34:20 +0000

by Marcelo Calniquer
A simple open source genealogy program written in Java. You can edit info (dates of birth, death, marriage, etc…) for individuals, add/remove photo, import and export GEDCOM data and more… The program uses a text file as database. The website is in Spanish. It has a development area at SourceForge.

Rodovid

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:28:59 +0000

by Aleksander Mishchenko
An open source drag-n-drop genealogy program for Linux or Windows based on Tk and Perl. You can edit info (name, sex, dates of birth, death, marriage, etc…) for individuals, add/remove photos, import and export GEDCOM data, creating sites like http://www.mishchenko.tk.

GEDCOM to KML

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:21:11 +0000

by Thierry Accart
An open source Java program that converts a GEDCOM file to map items (KML) to be able to view on a map family events by century, by generation, and in an ascendants tree. It has a development area at SourceForge.

gedcom merge

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:01:51 +0000

by Fred Lapeyre
An open-source application to automatically merge GEDCOM files. It provides either a user or another program the ability to merge GEDCOM files with as little human interaction as possible and with high quality of matching results.

PyGED

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:51:03 +0000

by Sameer Ajmani
Open-source Python-based software for storing, searching, and displaying genealogy data in GEDCOM 5.5. format. Provides a web interface (CGI/Python) for examining the geneaology data and displaying it as graphical trees using GraphViz.

php-gedcom

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:23:55 +0000

by Kristopher Wilson
Provides a library to parse, manipulate and export GEDCOM files in PHP5.

gedcom4j

lkessler — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:16:09 +0000

by frizbog1 (Matt Harrah)
A open source Java library to load (parse) and save GEDCOM genealogy files.

android-family-browser

lkessler — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:55:51 +0000

by David Chaves
A free open source application written in Java for an Android smartphone that allows you to enter and view your family information.

Geneal

lkessler — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:18:43 +0000

by Graham Freeman
A system for drawing family tree information on a PostScript printer. A C program is provided to convert from GEDCOM format to Geneal format. Another C program is also provided to generate an index to the pages of different branches of a family tree.

Gedcom

lkessler — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:46:52 +0000

by Dallan Quass
An open source parser that convers GEDCOM files to a de facto object model. The program is written in Java.

ezGED Viewer

lkessler — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:48:22 +0000

by SourceQuest, Inc. (Stan Mitchell)
View GEDCOM files on your Android device. View by individuals, families, sources, database info or descendants tree. Top level views are linked to additional detail views.

Find Grave

lkessler — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:40:57 +0000

by Jeff Killingsworth
A genealogy application for Android that allows you to gain access to the Find A Grave database while on the go. Search for people and cemeteries and navigate to them using your phone.

git-ged

lkessler — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:53:33 +0000

by John Sumsion
A Ruby toolset for managing genealogical data (GEDCOM) inside a Git repository. Open Source. The working area is at: https://github.com/jdsumsion/git-ged

MyHeritage app

lkessler — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:10:25 +0000

by MyHeritage Ltd. (Gilad Japhet)
Allows you to take your family tree with you. You can capture, store and share photos. It syncs your data with your family site on MyHeritage.com. For iPhone, IPad or Android.

FamilyTreeCircles

lkessler — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:57:20 +0000

by FamilyTreeCircles.com (Scott Jangro)
A free genealogy website designed to bring researchers with common family trees together. It allows you to share your detailed information about your ancestors by posting it to online research journals. It also has queries, answers and articles.

aisgedcom

lkessler — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:38:41 +0000

by Vasili Gavrilov
An open source program that processes GEDCOM files and assigns haplogroups and sorts by genetic distance (in generations). Written in Java.

Family History Web Clipper (FHwebclipper)

lkessler — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:53:45 +0000

by AppTime, LLC
Will capture a selection of information or an entire webpage and send everything to your FHNotebook. Works in most web browsers.

Family History Box (FHbox)

lkessler — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:50:10 +0000

by AppTime, LLC
Allows you to copy your information the FHNotebook site down to your computer so your can access it offline.

Family History Media (FHmedia)

lkessler — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:47:20 +0000

by AppTime, LLC
An app for the iPhone or Android to help capture research you find on trips or library visits and add it to your FHNotebook.

Family History Notebook (FHnotebook)

lkessler — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:59:26 +0000

by AppTime, LLC
An online notebook where you can store all your family history research. It can store and display photos, audio clips, videos, and other documents related to your family’s story. You can share your research with others and manage your research tasks.

Genealogy & History Research Assistant

lkessler — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:23:08 +0000

by Wolfram Alpha LLC
Provides answers to questions you can investigate about your ancestors. For the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Family Tree

lkessler — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:03:10 +0000

by Jiapu.com
A Chinese version of Ancestry’s Tree to Go, but for Android.

Zelkova Tree Genealogy Viewer

lkessler — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:23:30 +0000

by Saitama Tokamachi Fukaya
A family tree program designed to support the development of the Zelkova user’s group. The program and website are in Japanese. An English version is coming.

My Heritage

lkessler — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:11:26 +0000

by Piod Song
An Android app to manage your family, friend and genealogy information.

Shoebox

lkessler — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:05:38 +0000

by 1000memories (Brett Huneycutt)
An iPhone app that allows you to scan old paper photos and share theme with family and friends online.

Storytree

lkessler — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:18:38 +0000

by Matt Sullivan and Zach Weiner
Enables genealogists to record family stories online. An iPhone app for Storytree is coming.

1000memories

lkessler — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:50:05 +0000

by 1000memories (Brett Huneycutt)
Allows you to organize, share and discover the old photos, memories and stories of your family and friends.

createGedcom

lkessler — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:53:04 +0000

by Ken Stevens
An Java library for creating GEDCOM files. It allows developers to import data from non-GEDCOM sources into GEDCOM 6.0 XML format. Stylesheets are provided to convert from GEDCOM 6.0 XML to GEDCOM 5.5 text format. Free and Open Source.

Genealogy Registry

lkessler — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:15:26 +0000

by Tor-Eirik Bakke Lunde
A web-based application written in PHP for making your genealogy information available over the INternet for family collaberation to add information to the registry.

GeneAtlas.fr

lkessler — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:38:57 +0000

by Johann Robette
A program that uses Google Earth to map your ancestors that identifies “living areas”, maps time to visualize migration, enhances the map with text and pictures. Website is in French.

DFT2GED

lkessler — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:55:11 +0000

by ChalkTrauma, DreamCycle Studios
A DOS command line utility that takes a Dynamic Family Tree database and converts it back to GEDCOM format.

esp2ged

lkessler — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:52:59 +0000

by Björgvin Ragnarsson
A program to move data from Espólín to GEDCOM. Website is in Icelandic.

Espólín

lkessler — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:48:34 +0000

by Fridrik Skulason
A DOS genealogy program from Iceland. Program is no longer supported. Website was in Icelandic.

Date Calculator

lkessler — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:45:54 +0000

by John Nairn
A MacOS X application for many date and time calculations useful to genealogists. By the maker of GEDitCOM.

World Family Tree

lkessler — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:19:45 +0000

by TelGen Limited
Works in conjunction with Geni.com, enabling you to view your Geni family tree in a variety of ways on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or Android device.

GenTree

lkessler — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:24:11 +0000

by Jason Gregga
A viewer for GEDCOM files that runs on the webOS operating system for Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, HP Veer, Palm Pre2, HP Pre3, and HP TouchPad.

GenealogyInTime Toolbar

lkessler — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:00:52 +0000

by GenealogyInTime
A toolbar for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox that gives direct access to a genealogy search engine, lists new genealogy records, a blog feed of over 100 popular genealogy blogs, links to website resources, access to Google gmail, and a meter with website statistics.

GenScriber

lkessler — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:48:12 +0000

by Les Hardy
A program to transcribe genealogy document from images of census registers, church/parish records, etc. The interface is comprised of several resizable windows within a single main window. A register image can be viewed in the top window while data is input in the bottom window.

HistoryGeo

lkessler — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:45:23 +0000

by Arphax Publishing Co.
Provides an online map library, and allows you to personalize maps, annotate them, connect your research to the maps, chart migrations and collaborate with others.

Content Publisher

lkessler — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:33:56 +0000

by Ancestry.com
An online publishing service which provides tools and support to help you convert your historical digital records into indexed, searchable collections.

Sort Your Story

lkessler — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:49:39 +0000

by Lorel Kapke
Helps you organize, de-clutter, and store your family’s important information on your computer. Online videos and tutorials guide you.

HTML::Timeline

lkessler — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:23:02 +0000

by Ron Savage
Converts a GEDCOM file into a timeline file. Open source. Written in Perl. Here is the development area at CPAN.

Genealogy::Gedcom

lkessler — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:21:34 +0000

by Ron Savage
An OS-independent processor for GEDCOM data. Open source. Written in Perl. Here is the development area at CPAN.

Family Odyssey

lkessler — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:47:20 +0000

by Family Crusade, LLC
A game that incorporates the player’s own ancestry and uses historic moments exactly during the time the player’s ancestors would have live. The player can search on-line family trees to find or create their own family tree and also access digitized records to help in the game or their own research.

Resting Spot

lkessler — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:48:36 +0000

by RestingSpot LLC (Brett Atlas & Scott Kroeger)
Uses the GPS technology in smartphones to help people locate resting spots in cemeteries. Once marked via the mobile app (iPhone or Android), they are linked to the RestingSpot.com online memorials website for users to share memories, pay respects and post photos of loved ones.

relationMaster

lkessler — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:50:54 +0000

by Hansuli Anderegg
Visualize Relationships/Kinships by Diagrams, with GEDCOM import, csv import/export and many output formats.

Ansel_iconv

lkessler — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:43:09 +0000

by Infused Solutions (Keith Morrison)
A wrapper written in Ruby to convert ANSEL encoded text to any other encoding available to the GNU Unix Iconv function.

Gedspec

lkessler — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:37:29 +0000

by Infused Solutions (Keith Morrison)
An object oriented GEDCOM access library written in Ruby.

GED-inline

lkessler — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:45:02 +0000

by Nigel Munro Parker
An online validator for GEDCOM 5.5 or 5.5.1 files.

Family Reunion Planner Organizer

lkessler — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:35:34 +0000

by Fimark
A program for Family Reunion Planning that includes some extra Family Genealogy Research tools in the Deluxe edition. It helps organize, assign duties, plan the banquet, invites, flyers, t-shirts and more.

Ancestris

lkessler — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:28:42 +0000

An Open Source program worked on collaboratively based on GenealogyJ by Nils Meier. It is written in Java, works with the GEDCOM file itself, has plugins to expand its features, is multilingual (english, french, dutch, german, spanish, italian, polish) and available for different platforms. The main website and discussion is in French.

GENCatalog

lkessler — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:34:01 +0000

by MudCreek Software Inc. (Luc Comeau)
Helps manage your genealogy files on your computer. GENCatalog works with your existing genealogy program(s) and GENViewer.

gedcomToDatabase (PHP version)

lkessler — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:37:02 +0000

by Luventas Web Design (Carsten Fröhlich)
A PHP program to create a database from your GEDCOM file. Requires an ODBC connection to your database. See also the Perl script version.

Billion Graves

lkessler — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:47:06 +0000

by AppTime, LLC
An App for cemetery headstone photos that you’ve taken with your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android that allows you to update them to the BillionGraves cemetery database site. The Android version is availaable at the Android Market

gedcomToDatabase

lkessler — Sat, 28 May 2011 02:37:12 +0000

by Luventas Web Design (Carsten Fröhlich)
A Perl script to create a database from your GEDCOM file. Requires an ODBC connection to your database.

America 1900 Family Tree Builder

lkessler — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:37:59 +0000

by American Experience
Some tools to help trace your family, including charts, index cards, and lists of historical events.

Family Tree Genius

lkessler — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:07:39 +0000

A visual program that builds family tree diagrams, is compatible with GEDCOM files, and uses maps, time-lines, repositories, sources and more.

FamilySearch

lkessler — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:32:13 +0000

by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Also referred to as the New FamilySearch website. FamilySearch is an online family tree application that allows patrons of the LDS church to collaborate with others to build, share, manage, and preserve their family histories online. There is a list of products that are certified work with FamilySearch, and most of them are also listed in GenSoftReviews.

GedFan

lkessler — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:05:57 +0000

by Tamura Jones
A utility to generate ancestral fans in GEDCOM.

AncestorSync

lkessler — Wed, 11 May 2011 02:35:05 +0000

by Real-Time Collaboration, Inc
Allows you to download, upload, or synchronize your family tree from your online pedigree to your personal genealogy software on your local computer, and back again.

GenDetective

lkessler — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:06:51 +0000

by RumbleSoft (Sandra Rumble)
Analyzes your genealogy data and produces reports that point out missing data, identifies possible problems with your data, produces statistics and many different reports.

Advanced Tree Inspector

lkessler — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:54:34 +0000

by US Family Tree
Inspect your FamilySearch pedigree. Includes various tools such as one to analyze immigrants in your family tree and the country they came from.

Zahmoo for Families

lkessler — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:26:36 +0000

by Anecdote (Mark Schenk and others)
Helps you collect, store and share your family stories, allowing your to bring your family tree to life. There is also a Zahmoo for Businesses.

Ancestry for iOS

lkessler — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:12:26 +0000

by Ancestry.com
Take your Ancestry.com family tree with you everywhere you go. See your entire tree and shared trees in an intuitive way. Works on the iPhone, IPod Touch or iPad.

Names In Stone

lkessler — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:55:36 +0000

by Gateway Mapping, Inc.
Provides a spatial perspective to cemetery research. Genealogists can see maps showing grave groupings that help piece together family relationships, instead of just an alphabetical listing of burials. Genealogists can also contribute their own maps and information using on-line mapping tools.

Ancestors Waiting

lkessler — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:48:48 +0000

by OneGreatFamily.com
Searches your existing FamilySearch family tree for ancestors who still need temple work done. It then reserves your next ancestor in FamilySearch and generates your family ordinance request.

GeneDroid

lkessler — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:30:45 +0000

by Mobiwolf
Gives visual access to the Geni online family tree. For the Android operatings system on handhelds. You need an account with Geni to access.