Ages is a powerful application that will let you create family trees with detailed information about every individual.

Most important features are:

• multiple parents (adoptive, ...)
• any number of generations
• create your own print layouts
• integrated note-manager
• integrated management of all types of medea, i.e. pictures and audio (OLE-Support)
• complete set of events
• flexible entry of dates i.e. "between 1794 and 1797"
• highly compatible through direct usage of GEDCOM files
• suitable for even large trees (tested with >10000 individuals !)
• export of lists into RTF-files (for Microsoft Word import) more selectable printout-fields printing of notes and medianew list: Family Book Stylemerge people and trees

Download Ages 1.40 in Softonic

Personal Ancestral File is a Windows®-based version of one of the most widely used genealogical management programs for home computers. PAF does not provide genealogical data. Instead, it helps users organize their family history records. It can produce, either on screen or on paper, family histories, pedigree charts, family group records, and other reports to help users in their search for missing ancestors.

Features allow users to:

• Type each person's information only once
• Link individuals to families
• Type names and places using characters from any language
• Create templates to customize data entry
• Print pedigrees, family groups, or lists
• Track your research sources
• Use photos, sound clips, video, and notes to add interest and value
• Search, find, and correct information
• View family information in different ways
• Match/merge duplicate entries
• Filter searches
• Share your information with others

Download Personal Ancestral File 5.2.18.0 in Softonic

GenoPro is a software to draw family trees. Among all the family tree software, GenoPro is the simplest to learn and easiest to use. If you are a beginner to genealogy, you can learn to use GenoPro in a few minutes without the need to take a look at the online help.

GenoPro is capable to draw any type of family tree, including the most complicated family difficult to "picture". Once you have finished your family tree, you can save your family tree in a metafile to insert in Word, PowerPoint or any other Windows software. A metafile is a picture with a transparent background capable to be scaled to any size without quality loss. You can use GenoPro to create a huge poster of your family tree.

GenoPro can insert unlimited pictures for each individual and family, and help you to create a CD ROM of your family album. GenoPro has a powerful report generator to generate detailed reports in the language of your choice. Those reports can be printed using Word or published on the Web using your internet connection. GenoPro has built-in reports in 10 languages and you are welcome to add your own language or customize an existing report to your taste.

GenoPro has an excellent tool to compile statistics about your family and ancestry. With a few mouse clicks, you can find everything from the oldest ancestor to the largest family to the individual most divorced.

GenoPro uses the genogram to represent your family tree. A genogram is a graphical representation of a family with a set of simple rules and images. Genograms include basic information about the number of marriages, number of children in each marriage, birth order, age and death. Some genograms also include relationships between individuals and information on disorders running in a family such as alcoholism, depression and diseases.

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First Name Almanac lets your computer create suitable-for-framing printouts about the meaning of any name.

Using your computer, printer and this software package: Professionals, from health care providers to insurance agents, can use First Name Almanac to create personalized certificates for their clients, which will increase customer loyalty as well as enhance the professionals' name recognition.

Fund raisers can use First Name Almanac to create personalized spill-proof cups, can-coolers, and key-chains to raise contributions for their schools, churches, scout troops or fraternal organizations.

Entrepreneurs can use First Name Almanac to create personalized mugs, steins, and jewelry boxes, starting a new business with a modest capital investment. Corporations can use First Name Almanac to create dazzling certificates, desk name plates, wearable buttons and custom- tailored leave-behinds, eliminating the need to buy expensive personalized gifts for their employees, customers and prospects.

When you select an individual's name from First Name Almanac's database of 250,000+ first names, the program retrieves the meaning of the name, local origin and root of the name and, optionally, lets you include astrological information and other personal traits in its customized printout.

First Name Almanac Pro also contains dozens of personalized poems and verses for all occasions. You can add your own personalized sentiments to the beginning and end of each printout. The program will even create a poem out of the letters of any first name ("M" is for ...) First Name Almanac Pro supports color printers, and gives you complete control over your color selections.

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FamiliaBuilder allows you to put your family tree and photo album on the Web. It can read genealogical data from GEDCOM files. It lets you create a photo album, add picture descriptions, and link pictures with individuals.

Each individual in a group picture can be identified, thanks to the rectangle-tool functionality within the program. After you have entered all your data, FamiliaBuilder generates an elegant-looking, fully cross-linked Web site, with a customizable first page, index of names, family trees, personal pages, pictures, picture lists and thumbnail galeries.

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Graphically design your family tree and generate Web pages in a snap. This program approaches family-tree making from the user's point of view. Freely design your family tree using nothing but the mouse. Navigate, zoom, and get the complete image of your family tree. You can create image galleries for each person or family in your tree.

Share the tree with your friends and family. You also can easily create your family chronicle using the Microsoft Word report generator. You can print the tree or any part of the tree exactly as you designed it, as big or as small as you like.

Download GreatFamily 2.2.2 in Softonic

Genbox Family History is a database, a research tool, a task organizer, a data analyzer, a chart producer, and a report writer. The user interface was carefully constructed to provide a lot of power and flexibility to the user while also being easy to use and uncluttered in appearance. Whether you are a beginner, an experienced genealogist or a professional, you will be delighted with Genbox Family History.

Genbox stores your genealogical data. Pictures and other multimedia can also be stored and linked to the related data items. It can help you organize your research notes and tasks. Special features make it easy to add your source documentation. The charts and reports are very flexible, providing many ways for you to format and present your data to others. An advanced search capability will help you find particular subsets of your data, which can then be used as a group elsewhere in the program.

Charts can be printed on any printer, including large-format printers or plotters for impressive color wall charts that will be the talk of your next family reunion. They can also be saved in JPEG or PNG format, so they can easily be shared with others and included on web pages. Text reports can be saved in Rich Text Format (RTF) or HTML so you can edit them with your own editor or upload them to the web.

Download Genbox 3.6.5 in Softonic

Family Historian is a new kind of family tree program with a new and different design philosophy. It has a stylish 21st Century user interface, and incorporates a number of unique features. Diagrams (including the unique ‘All Relatives’ diagram) are tightly integrated and used for browsing, editing, and exploring as well as for printing wall charts.

Most programs let you link individuals to multiple pictures. Only Family Historian also lets you link each picture to all the people in them. It even lets you link people to their faces within a picture, without having to crop. Pictures (and/or faces within pictures) can be displayed in diagrams and reports.

Family Historian has a powerful query engine that lets you analyse your data and print the results, save them to a file, or copy them to another program (e.g. a spreadsheet). It also has unrivalled support for merge/compare. Only Family Historian allows you to merge/compare entire files, whole branches within a file, or pairs of individual records – while giving you complete control over the merge process.

Download Family Historian 3.1.2 in Softonic

Have you ever wanted to sit down and compile your family tree but were daunted by the task? Agelong Tree is a program intended for helping you do just that by storing and displaying information about your relatives and the key events in their lives. With millions of users sharing family information on the internet, tracing your family history has never been easier. Although sites such as Genes Reunited now boast over 90 million users, not everyone wants to share their family information online. Which is where Agelong Tree comes in.

The program works with a spreadsheet style interface and automatically builds the tree as you enter family members. Each box has a “mechanism of events” option which allows you to compile complex biographies, store texts, photos, sounds and even videos of your relatives. You can also export this information statistically and view it in attractive graphical presentations.

An algorithm automatically builds the interconnectedness of the family tree as you enter information about people and hit the save option to compile it. One of the key elements of the program is the event display module which highlights the major moments in a person’s life and displays them in graphical form. There are a number of standard event types such as birth, marriage, house move but you can also create your own event types which can have one or more participants. For example, there are three standard participants in the event of a birth – the newborn, the father and the mother. Along with standard participants you can add to an event an unlimited number of participants with other roles such as a witness, a midwife or even a lover (such as if the baby was conceived outside of the marriage by the milkman or something).

You can also filter your family by criteria. For example, you can select all those who lived in your home town, who were born in the 30s or all those who held certain jobs. This is one of the handiest features of this programme and it’s lacking from websites such as Genes Reunited. It’s quite interesting to be able to filter your family members’ attributes to see which ones you had the most in common with or which showed the most similar characteristics.

The drawback is that obviously, since it’s not online and you are not interconnected with other users, you can only extend your family tree as far as your knowledge goes. You also have to enter each member manually which is terribly time consuming when you are talking about biographies, events in their lives and other details. These factors are already done for you by other users on website based family trees.

Nevertheless, the attractive graphics and ease of use make this an excellent choice for anyone who would rather keep their family history to themselves.

Download Agelong Tree 3.1.1 in Softonic

Managing your genealogy can be a daunting task. ohmiGene lets you create new family members and connect them together. We liked how you can set whether a profile is private or public, add pictures and create unions between people. The program also has an advanced search to browse members by many categories like sex, birth, death or unions. Results will appear in the list view on the left. ohmiGene also lets you import and export GEDCOM genealogy files.

The interface is confusing and stuffed with small icons, making it difficult to get to grips with the program. It did take us a while to understand how to create new members and form unions. We were also disappointed to learn that the program limits you to 500 members for your genealogy.

ohmiGene offers advanced features to manage your genealogy but feels a little bit counter-intuitive.

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GenSmarts uses artificial intelligence to analyze your existing genealogy file and produce research recommendations. It helps you generate and track to do lists, print worksheets to record your search results, and plan research trips to libraries, court houses, etc. For online research sites, GenSmarts produces links that already have your ancestors name and specifics embedded - making it much easier to perform online record lookups.

Download GenSmarts 1.0.9.40 in Softonic

Genealogy utilities tend to be too complicated for novice users, so if you wanted to create your own family tree first of all you had to learn how to use the program itself. Now you have a much simpler option which will allow you to build your family history in no time.

Family Tree Pilot displays several tabs from which you can add new families, family members and descendants. The program's simplicity makes it very easy to use, but at the same time it doesn't offer too extended capabilities. For example, you can only start a family with parents, so if you want to add your siblings you'll have to add your parents first. The information about each family member is also limited to name, birth date and death date and a small picture.

The tree tab enables you to arrange family members onto a tree graphic, simply by moving them around with the mouse. You can also resize their image by dragging its corners. However, I missed the possibility to customize the text font as well.

Download Family Tree Pilot 1.04 in Softonic

Where do I come from? Who were my ancestors? Who comes before my great grandparents? Family Tree Builder has the answer to all these questions… and many more.

This comprehensive genealogy application enables you to build a complete family tree from scratch, featuring every single member of your family since the beginning of humankind – that is, if your own personal recordings reach that far in time.

Each family member has a highly detailed profile that includes all the basic data (name, date of birth, their relationship with the rest of the family) as well as other extra elements such as pictures, physical description and important facts and dates in their personal life.

Despite this huge amount of data, Family Tree Builder is really easy to use. It lets you browse the tree in several ways and also view or export it in a variety of formats. What's more, you can publish your family tree to your webpage right from the program. The program's only flaw, if any, is the compulsory registration in order to use it. But hey, it's free: what else can you ask for?

If you've decided to study your own personal history through your family ancestors, Family Tree Builder is the perfect software tool to help you out with this task.

Download Family Tree Builder 2.0.0.640 in Softonic

DNA is the complex code that makes up the lifeform in all of us. Until now, it reading and writing it was a very specialised field but this program intends to bring it to the masses.

Serial Cloner is an application that allows you to read and write files DNA sequences that conform to the FASTA and pDRAW32 format. It is therefore an extremely powerful piece of software that will only be of interests to scientists and science-biology students. The program includes a whole host of mapping options such as genetic maps, fragment viewers and a virtual PCR. All the tools you need to analyze and manipulate your DNA sequences are available in a very simple and easy to read all-in-one-window. You can numerically select fragments and carry out calculations of peptides which I have no idea about but certainly look impressive. Obviously, the main aim of the program is to provide an easy way to clone DNA - a task which it does very well and mainly just using a graphical interface. Many of the program's tools will only be familiar to scientists and academics but there's also a web browser for the direct import of NCBI and EMBL entries.

A highly complex and powerful tool that could make your DNA cloning a lot easier and cheaper than in the lab.

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If you believe that worldwide improvements also come from personal choices and that no matter how small, an action combined with many others can make a difference, read on. You can really make a difference helping worldwide medical research.

Your computer is a useful computing source and can be used during moments of inactivity to elaborate data for research projects. Once it has processed a package of data it can connect to a centre to upload the results and download new material. If millions of people were doing so, the result would be to have a super-computer calculator's power, able to carry on an enormous amount of elaboration and simulation that otherwise would take years and years. This is the principle of distributed computing.

World Community Grid uses your computer for scientific-humanitarian projects. It runs a screen saver while elaborating data to conquer cancer, to fight AIDS, to study African climate change and so on. It doesn't affect your PC's performance as it works only when you are not working but your screensaver is. This programme is founded by IBM and collaborates with BOINC, an open source platform that works similarly for certain projects.

Start using this 'intelligent' screensaver and feel part of a scientific community that studies how to fight majors human diseases with the power of distributing computing.

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