Genealogy software and websites?

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Genealogy software and websites?

What is a good website to get onto if I want to track the several generations of my family? Can I track ancestors' brothers and sisters too?

And what is the best software for doing genealogy?

I ask because I got blessed with the task of organizing and preserving thousands of old photographs; and want to make ancestry charts available to as many family members as I can.

2007-03-28 05:09:18 · 2 answers · asked by bequiet65 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy

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Hey Be Quiet,

I use FTM (Family Tree Maker), some friends use Rootsmagic. There are others also. Below are some sites you should check and do the comparison for yourself. Those two cost about $30.00 and are WELL Worth it.

You must have the ability to produce a GEDCOM standard file, most of these do. That is the starndard Genealogy exchange format. So you can take and give portions of family trees with people using different software.

Some of this comes with Free time on Pay sites. You should check out the software and when tired of paying for information, check out the free sites.

2007-03-28 05:33:12 · answer #1 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋

Genealogy software
Legacy Family Tree
Legacy is an award winning professional genealogy program that helps you track, organize, print, and share your family history. Includes sourcing, reports, merging, To Do list, slide shows, multimedia, Web pages, spell checking, import and export.

Family Tree Legends
Family Tree Legends is the newest family tree software. With a fresh approach, Family Tree Legends has 3 advanced features that no other genealogy program has: Real-Time Internet Backup, Real-Time Internet Publishing, and SmartMatching.

Kith and Kin Pro
Excellent genealogy program for storing all your family tree information. See your famiy tree laid out on the screen and access the data directly. Features user-defined fields, Web page generation, powerful searchs, age calculator, source recording.

Family Search
http://www.familysearch.org
Search the Family History Library's database, which contains millions of names from thousands of family trees.

GenCircles
http://www.GenCircles.com
Searching the global tree and viewing results is free to everyone. In addition to first and last names, the database is searchable by dates and places of birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial, as well as by the names of an individual’s father, mother and spouse.

GeneaNet
http://www.geneanet.org
A database that indexes all the world's genealogical resources, whether Net-based or not and whether free or fee-paying.

Free On Ancestry
http://www.freeonancestry.com/
A directory of all the FREE records and resources available on Ancestry.com.

Ancestor Hunt
http://www.ancestorhunt.com
Index of Free Genealogy Search Engines

Find Your Family Tree
http://www.findyourfamilytree.com
A free genealogy web site designed to help you find missing branches of your family tree using Pedigree Resource File (PRF), a rapidly expanding collection of family trees submitted by people worldwide to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

GenealogyBuff.com
http://www.genealogybuff.com
Search for your surname in dozens of family history databases with one click. Though you still have to visit each site to see the results (or find out your search came up empty), GenealogyBuff.com can be a good starting point for online research.

USGenWeb
http://www.usgenweb.org
The USGenWeb is one of the premier sites for US researchers. Here you'll find Web pages for every US state and county.

AncestralFindings
http://www.ancestralfindings.com
AncestralFindings may not own every database you're interested in, but its collection is impressive. Holdings include CD-ROM records of births, deaths, marriages, census indexes, land records, passenger lists, immigrations and Genealogy.com's entire World Family Tree collection.

2007-03-28 21:58:34 · answer #2 · answered by numbat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

I'm still looking for and learning....

2007-03-31 11:31:19 · answer #3 · answered by kdharmawan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋