Questions tagged [software-recommendations]
Use this tag for questions seeking software/website recommendations to carry out specific tasks. Ensure your question has a specific bounded problem to solve and specific constraints and/or criteria for a good solution.
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Representing genealogy when multiple intra-familial marriages occurred
I searched this site and found a similar question from 2012. I'm hoping that genealogy programs have improved since then. I have a genealogy in which multiple intrafamilial marriages occurred. ...
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Software for creating digital images from an album and captioning them
I'm looking for software to create digital versions of and caption individual photos from albums and paper prints. Can anyone suggest any products that might do this?
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Descendant List from Ancestry.com
My genealogy data has been in Personal Ancestry File (PAF) on my desktop computer for 20+ years. I recently also put it on Ancestry.com. For now, I am maintaining it in both places because PAF will ...
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Software to record polygamous family with sequence but not birth dates of children?
I am starting a project to document historical family relationships of a family in Tanzania based on oral records. The data go back about 200 years. Many of the families involve multiple wives, some ...
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Is there some software that can draw a family diagram with a timeline?
I got an idea of how I wanted to represent my family tree. A regular tree has the disadvantage that time is not taken into account. Generations are shown at the same line, while in fact most of the ...
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Does FamilySearch.org prohibit freelance genealogists from charging clients for research services utilizing their platform to do the research?
If I want to hold myself out as an independent researcher willing to receive for-hire compensation to research a client's family history, and I want to use FamilySearch.org as my primary research ...
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is there a GRAMPS descendant or family report that includes photos
I have tried to find a report in GRAMPS that has the features that I require. I want a family or descendant report that includes primary person photos. There is one other requirement: It needs to be ...
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Best way to make photo of very tall family trees?
I have a family tree of over 100 generations and I am trying share it with my family in print or as a file. Geni.com only allows exporting as many 8×11 papers. I have found a printing service where I ...
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Transfering family tree from My Heritage to free software program without losing data
The site that I am currently on is too expensive.
I have 508 people in my tree currently, and I would hate to lose any of my data that I have already recorded.
Can you recommend a completely free ...
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Seeking free/open software or method to view/edit PAF file in Windows 10
It is 2020 and I have an old paf and ged files and would like to read and or edit for saving offline.
Is there any recent 2020 software that is not a "Pay per Use" commercial software, that can read ...
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Recording Research Logs / Plans
I am looking for some guidance on how best to record the research I have completed so I do not duplicate the same research. I will also use the logs to plan future research.
Can anyone point me in ...
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Software that export/imports Ancestry.com sources
I have my main family tree on Ancestry.com and I've added a lot of sources within the Ancestry interface i.e. the Sources appear with a small preview and a direct link to them.
With a lot of my ...
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Conversion of Family Tree Maker (v6) 1999 files to Ancestry-readable format
I have just re-subscribed to Ancestry.com. I haven't done genealogy since before my daughter was born 21 years ago (pre Internet access). I have 1999 (Family Tree Maker) FTM files version 6. Windows ...
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Pedigree Chart into Spreadsheet from GEDCOM
I have a spreadsheet, of my own creation, which I call Custom_Lines_Chasing, which, in its essence, is a pedigree chart.
I paste below a screen shot, of a small part, so that you can see its format.
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Which program supports export (PDF/LaTex) to show full tree, not only ancestors/decendants
I'm currently using gramps (5.0.2) to build my family tree.
I wanted to generate a report of a relative and the report should include basically everything, well at least it should include his ...
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Stacking DNA and trees?
I would like to combine information from my trees at Ancestry and MyHeritage and my family members' DNA kits. Is there a software program I can download that will let me input everything?
I need the ...
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Seeking Family Tree Software with Photo Integration that tags faces of people?
I have done a bit of research on various family tree makers but some can be pricey and I would hate to spend the money on something to find out it does not work how I want.
Is there a family tree ...
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Seeking software to help triangulate segment DNA matches?
Every time I have a significant group of DNA segment matches, I enter their entire genealogical tree into my family database. Then I need to compare each of these family trees with each of these ...
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Seeking computer-based family-tree software for Mac/PC?
I am looking for a software program that works cross platform Mac/PC and isn’t exclusively cloud-based. Also I want to have access to my own data, so Ancestry software, though nice, doesn’t tick any ...
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Seeking Photo Management Software for genealogical research?
I am searching for a photo management software to help organize and tag all the photos gathered for my genealogical research. I know that there is a lot of software that allows me to edit the Meta-...
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Are there any tools that will display a complete tree [duplicate]
My tree currently contains around 1500 people and I would like to be able to browse the WHOLE tree; I like the way the tree displays on Ancestry.co.uk but find it a little limiting (especially when ...
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Seeking tools to analyse 23andme raw data?
I recently got my ancestry genetic test done from 23andme. I am interested in finding out more about my raw data.
Does anybody know of some good tools that come for a good price and give me the ...
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Is there an application that searches for common ancestors of three or more individuals
I've been mapping my DNA for about two years now. Part of the process is finding the common ancestors between three or more DNA donors that match a segment of shared DNA. I spend an enormous amount ...
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Seeking software which displays (yet) unrelated persons and family trees for overview
I am searching for a software, which displays several (yet) unconnected family trees and unrelated persons.
Right now I have 200 people found in old church books with all the same last name over 200-...
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Is there any genealogy software that will assemble lists of cousins from a gedcom?
Are there software programs that will compile lists of cousins at each degree (2nd, 3rd, 4th etc) of a target (or "home") person from a gedcom?
Viz: Among the 6000 persons in my gedcom, what are the ...
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Software/tool to generate 'trial' family trees?
During my research, I often want to 'rough out' simple multi-generation family trees (based on birth/bap/mar/death/bur) to explore, for example, how a bunch of entries in the parish registers on a ...
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Layout tools to print big GEDCOM plus pictures to posters?
Background:
I have created a family tree containing over 1100 relatives.
Therefore I used Webtrees (based on PHP+MySql, hosted on my own web server). (This is how it can look like: Demo family tree)
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Photo matching software [duplicate]
Can anyone suggest a free face matching app for use on a Windows 10 computer? I have a photo of my grandmother at the age of 20 and another photo that may be her at the age of perhaps 50. ...
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What can analyze a tree and suggest what your next research goal(s) should be?
I've been wishing that a program/website existed that would look at my tree and tell me what I should research next. Should I try to find the birthdate of my great-grandfather, or should I try to find ...
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I have a ged file with 44k entries - what is a good program which will handle it? [closed]
I began using the free software, Simple Family Tree, to enter my information. Three years later, I have over 44,000 people entered. The program crashes all the time. Can anyone recommend a good ...
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How to upload a "stripped" GEDCOM to DNA sites
I want to find a simple little app/software that would strip my GEDCOM of any non-blood relatives (plus spouses) and eliminate any non-vital data (only include birthdates, birthplaces, deathdates, ...
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Free/open software or method to convert PAF file to GEDCOM?
I know someone who has a PAF file he wants to use but can no longer access because Personal Ancestral File is gone from his computer. It's been discontinued, so he needs to move to something else and ...
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Software/service for informal genealogy book?
Can anyone recommend a means of informally publishing a short family history that includes text, charts, and photos, for a non-family-researching audience?
This would be intended for an 80th ...
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Seeking website/service that allows unauthenticated access to published trees?
Is there a genealogical service/website that allowd access to published trees without forcing guests to create an account?
I've used Ancestry and MyHeritage in the past, and as best I can tell they ...
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Seeking genealogy software that will support multiple languages and RTL writing? [closed]
I am home user that would like to maintain his family records and tree for 3-4-5+ generations back. I am looking for Software, not necessary free, that will support multiple languages and RTL writing ...
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Printing (or pdf) of FULL report including all jpg files
I have My Heritage on my laptop and have done a lot of research over the years. Have stored a lot of jpg files of census reports, draft registrations, new paper articles etc. under the appropriate ...
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Statistical analysis of data within my genealogy program?
I wish to find a program which will allow me to pose certain specific questions and have my genealogy program answer them such as:
What is the average age of a named person's direct male ancestors?
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How to generate a report of ancestors by generation?
Somehow years ago I generated a report (a text file) that listed every person in a Personal Ancestral File (PAF v5) or GEDCOM file by their generation. I only had PAF to work with (and was also ...
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Seeking tools to create tree of specific individuals in gedcom
I am trying to help an adoptee determine his birth parents based on DNA matches at different sites. I became involved because he is a 1st-3rd cousin DNA match to many people in my extensive family ...
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How to split up the disconnected trees in a GEDCOM forest into separate files?
I have a increasingly growing GEDCOM file and know I have many islands in it, some intentional and some not intentional. So I basically view the GEDCOM as a whole as a forest and I know I have many ...
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Fractal display of a family tree on a computer screen
Is there a computer program that allows you to see a whole family tree, on screen, and expand, compact and shift, vertically and horizontally, just as you can in Google Earth?
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Web site or other means for collaborative annotation of photographs and documents?
A relative has hundreds of photographs and other documents which he would like to make available to our fairly large number of known relatives. Presumably a web site would be the best way to do this (...
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Are there any tools to search unstructured, digital data?
While I have been searching for ancestors in early America (late 1700s) I have found multiple records that have been OCR'd and made available online. These are extremely useful, however all that data ...
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Is there a Python/Django GEDCOM Parser that would parse gedcom for django app?
I am wondering what type of database would be best for this even. I want to create an app for uploading a gedcom file, having it parsed and saved in a database/triple store. Then the Django ...
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Is there a space to collaborate to create a single family tree (for a surname)?
There seems to be many sites whereby you can search for records or even share each others family tree. But what I would like is a site that contains family trees (perhaps broken down by surname) where ...
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Is there any program that automatically imports sources attached to the FamilySearch tree?
There are lots of programs that can import new persons from the shared tree on FamilySearch. I know most of the FamilySearch features of Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and RootsMagic, but they all lack one ...
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Choosing non-cloud software to transition to from Family Tree Maker 2012? [duplicate]
I am a newbie and just learned here that Family Tree Maker has been discontinued What do Family Tree Maker users do, now that FTM has been discontinued?.
What non-cloud software is the least painful ...
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DNA Features of Genealogy Software
Have any traditional genealogy software programs that people use for recording their genealogy research added any features to support DNA research?
I know there are a lot of DNA utility programs out ...
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Methods to organize medical genealogy information?
An aspect of genealogy that I have recently become very interested in is medical genealogy.
Numerous sources give me information about my medical family history, such as:
anecdotal evidence (for ...
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Template or Tool for Comparing Y-DNA Results
I am looking for a tool, preferably an excel template, I can run on my computer that I can use for comparing Y-DNA results across multiple types of Y-DNA tests.
I realize some version of this exists ...
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