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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: What free Family History Tree builder software would you recommend?
« on: Thursday 25 April 24 20:22 BST (UK) »
Been using Brother's Keeper since the early 1990s.
This was used to record essential person information (such as BMD) and make it a simpler affair to correct errors and add in multiple spouses when they were discovered - far easier to do it on screen than on the back of a roll of wallpaper.
It was originally bought as Shareware on a 5¼" floppy disk and was pleased to see when the internet came along that development was still ongoing so have kept the software up to date through a number of new PCs.
A relative introduced me to one of those online genealogy sites and uploaded the trees there via an exported GEDCOM file from BK. While the online information is useful and vast, I prefer to update the online tree with the BK data in parallel so that if the online account is lost for whatever reason, there is still the offline data to fall back on.
It is free, it works, it is pretty straightforward to use for my basic needs.
This was used to record essential person information (such as BMD) and make it a simpler affair to correct errors and add in multiple spouses when they were discovered - far easier to do it on screen than on the back of a roll of wallpaper.
It was originally bought as Shareware on a 5¼" floppy disk and was pleased to see when the internet came along that development was still ongoing so have kept the software up to date through a number of new PCs.
A relative introduced me to one of those online genealogy sites and uploaded the trees there via an exported GEDCOM file from BK. While the online information is useful and vast, I prefer to update the online tree with the BK data in parallel so that if the online account is lost for whatever reason, there is still the offline data to fall back on.
It is free, it works, it is pretty straightforward to use for my basic needs.