Family History Software

[Adi1962]

I came across a piece of software that might be of interest to those looking for a good product. Its called Genbox and you can download a full version from http://www.genbox.com, its limited to 30 days as a trial, can be purchased from TWR for around £30, so not mega expensive. They even have their own mailing list via Rootsweb.

Would be interested to see what other think.

Adrian

[Eagles4ever]

Just downloaded it so will have a play later.

I like the look of the charts and trees you can print off though.  It looks as though there is one that will show all relatives and how they are connected instead of just ancestors or descendants.

Have you tried it yourself yet?

[Fitty]

I downloaded it too.......i like fiddling with new things.   Had a quick look last night but i need to sit and study it a bit more.  Looks promising tho' 

[Eagles4ever]

Just imported my gedcom file into it but everytime I go to view a tree I get an error message and the program shuts down

I'll have to try again later - got to pick the kids up now

[Adi1962]

Was playing around a bit last night and found some useful bits.

It is similar to many of the other products on the market, but what impresses me at this stage is the effort to make it user friendly. I am more interested in its ability to create web pagesand/or be web integratable.

Will try and play a bit more before the BBC2 9pm prog

Adrian

[Fitty]

It did that to me as well Eavesdropper. 

[Eagles4ever]

Excellent - it's let me do it now.  If you can, try the curvy everyone chart.  It looks fab!!!

[Zeb]

Hi, I've been using a program called GenoPro which is free although their site does have a copy of GenoPro Gold which had a "bit more" for $24.

http://www.genopro.com/

[Fitty]

Thats what i use Zeb and think the layout of the tree is fab, I dont like the Auto arrange tho, it was ok when my tree was small but now that it's grown the auto arrange makes a right old mess of it.   My brother paid for the Gold Key and it was a BOGOF, so i got mine for nothing

I've used the layout of the tree on my website and had some very good comments about it.

I,m not very keen on the way it produces Gedcoms tho as half the information is missing but according to the website this will be resolved in the next update.....whenever that will be!!