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Software Downloads > Shareware > Home & Education Tools > Genealogy
The software downloads listed in this section were features from NetGuide magazine issues.
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Agelong Tree - Developer's Site

Description: Agelong Tree is an easy-to-use yet powerful computer program for building family trees, storing and displaying information about people and events in their lives.

Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.genery.com
Size: 1.42 MB


All in the Family Tree - Developer's Site

Description: Some different ways to print family charts. Needs a gedcom file and you must have a printer installed. Check you can print from the trial version before paying for the full version.

Price: Shareware - Limited Use
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.all-in-the-family-tree.com
Size: 1.08 MB


Ancestral Author - Developer's Site

Description: Construct hyperlinked Adobe Acrobat PDF files from GEDCOM files, text files, images and other sources of user input. Simple to use, and creates high quality documents that can be printed, emailed, published on the Internet or sent to a service bureau for conversion into a bound book. Great for putting your information on to a CD.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
Download: http://www.ancestralauthor.com/download/download.htm
Size: 1.06 MB


Brother's Keeper - Developer's Site

Description: Brother's Keeper is a Windows genealogy program that will help you organise your family history information and lets you print a large variety of charts and reports. This program has been available for over ten years and there are regular upgrades as new items are added. The program is shareware (try before you buy). After running BKSETUP6.EXE to install the program, start the program and then press F1 for help.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.bkwin.org
Size: 9.63 MB


Cumberland Family Tree Pro - Developer's Site

Description: Cumberland Family Tree is a powerful second generation genealogy program - many features, multi-lingual, easy-to-use! Automatically links names as they are added to the database. Include 250 events per person, multiple marriages, scanned photos and documents, sources, stories and more... Print 31 different reports. Even create your very own indexed family history book!

Price: 45-day trial, $45 US to register
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Download: http://www.cf-software.com/cftw313setup.exe
Size: 4.86 MB


Familia Builder - Developer's Site

Description: Download FamiliaBuilder (Windows only) and use it to build your family web site. Create a photo album, add picture descriptions and link pictures with individuals. No Web programming skills required.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.dralex.com/builder/home/download.html
Size: 14.3 MB


Family History CD - Developer's Site

Description: Why not create your own interactive, customised CD-ROM? Family History CD makes this easy. It guides you through the steps of organising and labelling your files, and helps you design your own creative front page with buttons linking to the files. This version uses Legacy files.

Price: Shareware - 15 Days Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.familyhistorycd.com/software/DownloadTrial.php
Size: 38.7 MB


Family Reunion Organiser - Developer's Site

Description: Family Reunion organiser really takes some of the stress and work from planning a family reunion. Prints labels, to-do lists, etc.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.rootsmagic.com/fro.htm
Size: 2.66 MB


Family Tree Legends - Developer's Site

Description: This genealogy program provides real time Internet backup, real time Internet publishing and smart matching. Your file is backed up on a secure server and updates are handled automatically. It will also match the ancestors in your file to the ancestors in the GenCircles Global Tree.

Price: $39.95 US
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Download: http://www.familytreelegends.com/downloads/install
Size: 10.3 MB


Genius Family Tree - Developer's Site

Description: Genius Family Tree is an easy to use but powerful family tree program that allows you to store information on up to 15,000 people. In the main view, you can see four generations surrounding the currently selected person: parents, grandparents, siblings and children. The program offers a good range of reports, including pedigree charts. If you're compiling a family history as well as a family tree, you'll appreciate the fact that the notes for each person can contain up to 4,000 words. You can exchange information with other researchers via the Gedcom (GED) file import and export facility.

Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.gensol.com.au/download
Size: 3.56 MB


GENMmatcher - Developer's Site

Description: Use this program to look at Gedcom files without importing and saving to your hard drive. Compare genealogy files for matches or duplicates. Directly reads GEDCOM, PAF 3- 5, TMG 4 and 5 (The Master Genealogist), Family Tree Maker and Legacy 3-5 files.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.mudcreek.ca/downloads.htm
Size: 2.25 MB


GenoPro - Developer's Site

Description: GenoPro is a powerful research tool that lets you draw family trees. It's easy to develop relationships between family members and include information on individuals, with notes and photos. You can add any number of images for each family member, as well as data-like hyperlinks to add a Web site URL or an email address. Reports allow you to generate summaries of information on individuals and families on the tree. A table format lets you view all your information in a easy-to-understand grid, and you can show or hide columns.

Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.genopro.com
Size: 1.37 MB


GENViewer - Developer's Site

Description: The fastest way to view, search and analyse your genealogy files. Directly reads GEDCOM, PAF 3- 5, TMG 4.x and 5.x (The Master Genealogist), Family Tree Maker, and Legacy 3-5 files.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.mudcreek.ca/downloads.htm
Size: 2.10 MB


GreatFamily - Developer's Site

Description: GreatFamily lets you graphically design your family tree using HTML templates and essentially build a family Web using the built-in Web browser. You can add photos and information on each person including notes, plus you can chart relationships. As well as providing import and export support for Gedcom files, the program lets you build entire image galleries, so that none of your precious family photos will be lost. You can print out reports, create Web pages, open multiple family trees, and much more.

Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.greatprogs.com/downloads.html
Size: 1.68 MB


Kith and Kin Pro - Developer's Site

Description: Known as Of That Ilk in Australia and New Zealand; Your family tree will be laid out on the screen and you can access the data directly. Features are - user-defined fields, web page generation, powerful searches, age calculator, source recording, international settings, timeline and pictures. Import or export GEDCOM files for data transfer to other programs. (Includes descendant and ancestral charts and family and person details.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
Download: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/spansoft/kkpro_rt.htm#DOWNLOAD
Size: 5.97 MB


MacFamilyTree - Developer's Site

Description: MacFamilyTree helps you to document, store, and display information about your family. You can draw and print family trees, lists, cards, heritage charts and descendant charts.

Price: Trial Version
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
Download: http://www.onlymac.de/indexe.html
Size: 2 MB


Personal Historian - Developer's Site

Description: Personal Historian is software that helps you to write personal histories about yourself or other individuals. It can be an overwhelming task but Personal Historian breaks it down into more manageable pieces and then re-assembles it as a publishable document.

Price: Trial Version
Platform: Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.rootsmagic.com/download/
Size: 6.60 MB


RootsMagic - Developer's Site

Description: RootsMagic is a powerful, comprehensive family tree program suitable for experienced researchers, but also easy for novices to learn. You can automatically create a Web site, import and export in multiple formats, and add information easily with around 60 different form types already created for you. As you enter information, family members are linked automatically by their relationship. Where the program really shines is in the way it outputs information: wall charts, CDs with menus, complete books with indexes, and many different reports including pedigree charts and scrapbooks.

Price: Trial Version
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.rootsmagic.com/demo.htm
Size: 8.63 MB


Telling Stories - Developer's Site

Description: Telling Stories is a unique way to capture special memories. The program creates multimedia presentations of the events of a life - yours or someone elses. The program combines, words, images, music and voice-overs to create timelines.

Price: Shareware - 15 Days Trial
Platform: Windows Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.tellingstories.com/download.htm
Size: 7.36 MB


The Master Genealogist - Developer's Site

Description: The Master Genealogist (TMG) is the gold standard in family history software. Used by novices and professional researchers alike, the latest version reinforces TMG's reputation as the most powerful family history project manager on the market while adding many new features to make it easy and fun to use.

Price: Trial Version (30-day trial)
Platform: Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.whollygenes.com/tmg.htm
Size: 37.5 MB


TreeDraw - Developer's Site

Description: Produce perfectly laid out charts. Add pictures, clip-art and other simple graphics. Move the boxes or make smaller as you wish. Drop line charts - several to chose from.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
Download: http://www.spansoft.org
Size: 5.73 MB


TreePad Plus - Developer's Site

Description: TreePad PLUS is a very intuitive and powerful Word Processor, PIM and personal database. The program itself is only 842 Kb in size. It allows you to store all your notes, images, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier.

Price: Shareware - Trial
Platform: Windows95/ 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.treepad.com/download/#tpplus
Size: 2.60 MB


Wintree - Developer's Site

Description: Creates full family trees. View Gedcom files. Many reports and charts.

Price: Shareware - 30 Days Trial
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/XP
Download: http://website.lineone.net/~d.j.cooke/wintree.htm
Size: 672 KB