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Ancestral Author

Shareware program that constructs hyperlinked and indexed Adobe Acrobat PDF files from GEDCOM files, text files, image files, and other sources of user input. It is very simple to use and creates high quality PDF files for distribution through email, on the internet or for printing.

Ancestral Sources

Ancestral Sources by Nick Walker allows the rapid entry of the most commonly used genealogical source information. Ancestral Sources is designed to be used alongside the top-rated Family Historian application by Calico Pie Software. The current version supports the entry of census, marriage, baptism, death and burial/cremation information. Future versions will allow entry of other source information such as births. In this version, census, marriage, burial/cremation, death and baptism entries can be rapidly entered into Ancestral Sources which automatically adds GEDCOM census, marriage, death, burial and baptism events, occupations, births, and other facts linked to a source record for every individual involved. Images can also be linked with ease.

calibre - E-book management ^FREE

Free e-book management software.

Cemetery Transcription Software for Cemetery Management of Cemetery Transcriptions Version 2

This software is designed for individuals searching their ancestry, family historians, groups, genealogy and historical societies, cemeteries and other organizations desiring to organize a cemetery transcription. It will provide a very useful searchable database when complete. It easily organizes cemetery photos and transcriptions into a searchable database.

Champollion 2.0 - The Scribe for Savvy Palaeographers

A software program that provides valuable help and comfort for all work on digitized ancient manuscripts. Its main purpose is to set the picture of an ancient manuscript next to its transcription, horizontally or vertically, depending on your needs.

Dave HEIN's Genealogy Page

Digest freeware - converts mail list digests into hypertext to view in a web browser.

Elmswick Data Services, Images of UK Towns and Villages and Genealogy software

Genealogy DATAManager is an Access database to manage and organize data downloads from the Cheshire BMD and other websites produced by them.

Evidentia - Give a Voice to Your Sources

Evidentia is genealogy software that leads the researcher to catalogue and analyze the claims made by a source BEFORE linking them to a person. The site offers tutorials, tips, training, and support.

Family History CD-ROM Creator Software

Family History CD software helps you easily organize your photos, documents, videos, PAF files, or other computer file into a project. Design your own creative front page that has buttons, linking to the files you've added.

FTAnalyzer

Use FTAnalyzer to investigate your family tree in new and interesting ways, see where your ancestors lived and moved over time on the new maps feature. Find errors in your tree eg: childrens birthdates before parent was born. See lists of who is missing from census searches then click their name to automatically search on Ancestry, Find My Past, Familysearch etc. And lots more.

GedLink Editor - Edit your family tree with great ease

Software to create and edit your family tree. Available in English, French, Spanish, German. New feature: Animations to help follow the branches.

GenDetective

GenDetective

Genea - Your Genealogy Research Tool

GENEA for iOS, iPadOS and macOS. If you need help with your genealogy research, Genea is the app for you. Genea allows you to keep your notes and research logs organised and separated from your own family tree. When you find a family connection, you can easily export the note to import the information in your family tree.

Genealogy Assistant for Google Chrome New!

The extension for Google Chrome adds custom features to popular genealogy websites Ancestry.com and MyHeritage.com that improve your research workflow.

Genealogy Research Wizard-GenSmarts-Genealogy Software That Automates Genealogy Research

GenSmarts works with your existing genealogy software to help you generate and track to do lists, print worksheets to record your search results, and helps you plan research trips to libraries, court houses, and historical societies. Also links you directly to many online record sites - right to your ancestors in some cases. Free trial download.

GenFolder

Internet backup service for your genealogical data files, research and photographs.

GenOutix

A series of free tools for genealogists. In French.

GenScriber

GenScriber is a desktop application, designed for transcribing genealogy documents from images of census registers, church/parish records etc. It is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. The interface is comprised of several resizable windows within a single main window. A register image can be viewed in the top window while data is input in the bottom window. Versions for Linux and Windows are currently available.

Gigatrees

Gigatrees will build a complete family tree website from your GEDCOM file, creating pages suitable for both offline or online viewing, including bidirectional pedigree charts, population and origin maps, census tables, ancestor, generation, descendant and kinship lists as well as individual, source and location pages. Gigatrees also performs a thorough data validation comparing vital events and generates a report listing all inconsistencies. Gigatrees is mobile friendly, built upon the responsive features of JQuery and Bootstrap 3, supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding, extended ASCII and UNICODE character sets, and full language translations into over 50 languages. Gigatrees has over 100 configurable options as well. Gigatrees has built in support for thousands of vendor specific extensions and date formats, privacy options, supports source citation templates, automatic URL hotlinking, embedding html and embedded references for internal linking to other records. Advanced features include configurable headers and footers, a fully integrated blog, plugin support, and web hosting at the gigatrees.com domain.

LDS Batch Files to Plain Text with EazyRead

LDS Christening and Marriage batch files converted into plain text with EazyRead.