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This article compares several selected client-based genealogy programs. Web-based genealogy software is not included.
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[edit] General information
| Software | Example(s) | Latest release | Free to use | Free software | Software license |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahnenblatt |  |
2011-02-08 | Yes | No | Proprietary |
| Agelong Tree | 2007-12-27 | No (40 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | |
| Ancestral Quest | 2011-11-15 | Yes (Basics version) |
No | Proprietary | |
| Brother's Keeper | 2011-12-19 | Yes (Unreg. ver.) |
No | Shareware | |
| Family Historian | 2009-May | No | No | Proprietary | |
| Family Tree Builder |  |
2011-01-26 | Yes (Free ver.) |
No | Proprietary |
| Family Tree Maker (Windows) | 2011 | No | No | Proprietary | |
| Family Tree Maker for Mac[1] | 2010-11-04 | No | No | Proprietary | |
| GEDitCOM II | 2010-07-17 | No | No | Proprietary | |
| Genbox Family History | 2007-11-17 | No (30 Day Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary | |
| GenealogyJ |  |
2010-02-19 | Yes | Yes | GNU GPL |
| GenoPro |  |
2010-12-30 | No (25 Person Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary |
| GRAMPS |  |
2011-10-01 | Yes | Yes | GNU GPL |
| Legacy Family Tree | 2011-06-04 | Yes (Standard Edition) |
No | Proprietary | |
| LifeLines | 2007-10-06 | Yes | Yes | MIT License | |
| MacFamilyTree | 2010-05-14 | No | No | Shareware | |
| Personal Ancestral File | 2002-07-23 | Yes | No | Proprietary | |
| Reunion | 2010-08-28 | No | No | Proprietary | |
| RootsMagic | 2011-02-12 | Yes (Essentials) |
No | Proprietary | |
| SmartGenealogy | 2007-05-02 | Yes | No | Freeware | |
| The Master Genealogist | 2012-01-19 | No (30 Day Free Trial) |
No | Proprietary |
[edit] Operating system support
| Software | Windows | DOS | Mac OS | Linux | BSD | Unix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahnenblatt | Yes | No | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| Ancestral Quest | Yes | No | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| Agelong Tree | Yes | No | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| Brother's Keeper | Yes | Terminated (5.2B) | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| Family Historian | Yes | No | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| Family Tree Builder | Yes | No | No | Wine[c](v2) | Wine[c] | No |
| Family Tree Maker (Windows) | Yes | No | Separate | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| Family Tree Maker for Mac | No | No | Yes | |||
| GEDitCOM II | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Genbox Family History | Yes | No | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| GenealogyJ | Java[a] | No | Java[a] | Java[a] | No | Java[a] |
| GenoPro | Yes | No | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| GRAMPS | Yes | No | ported[b][2] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Legacy Family Tree | Yes | No | No | Wine[c][3] | Wine[c] | No |
| LifeLines | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MacFamilyTree | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Personal Ancestral File | Yes | Terminated | Terminated (2.3.1) | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
| Reunion | Terminated (4.0) | No | Yes | Wine[c](v4.0) | Wine[c] | No |
| RootsMagic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| SmartGenealogy | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| The Master Genealogist | Yes | Terminated (2.3) | No | Wine[c] | Wine[c] | No |
[edit] Features
| Name | Unicode Support | Individual view | Family view | Pedigree view | Chronology view | Ancestor charts | Ancestor narrative reports | Ancestor pedigree reports | Descendant charts | Descendant narrative reports | Fan charts | Research Manager | DNA charts | Research Guidance | Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahnenblatt | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Ancestral Quest | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Agelong Tree | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Brother's Keeper | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Family Historian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| Family Tree Builder | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Family Tree Maker (Windows) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Family Tree Maker for Mac | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes |
| GEDitCOM II | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Genbox Family History | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| GenealogyJ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| GenoPro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? |
| GRAMPS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Legacy Family Tree[a] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| LifeLines | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| MacFamilyTree | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Personal Ancestral File | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | No | ? |
| Reunion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| RootsMagic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SmartGenealogy | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
| The Master Genealogist | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? |
- a Legacy Family Tree can also save DNA Test Results and Print the values. Mapping is icluded to automatically pinpoint and plot important locations in ancestors’ lives.
[edit] Languages
Available user interface languages
| Name | English | Afrikaans | Danish | Dutch | French | German | Italian | Norwegian | Polish | Spanish | Swedish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahnenblatt[a] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ancestral Quest[j] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | Yes | No[e] | Yes | No[e] | Yes | partial |
| Agelong Tree | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Brother's Keeper | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[e] | Yes | Yes | No[e] | Yes |
| Family Historian | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Family Tree Builder | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Family Tree Maker (Windows) | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Family Tree Maker for Mac | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Genbox Family History[b] | Yes[f] | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | partial | Yes | partial | partial |
| GEDitCOM II | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| GenealogyJ | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| GenoPro[h][i] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GRAMPS[c] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Legacy Family Tree[d] | Yes | public test |
Yes | Yes | public test |
Yes | public test |
Yes[f] | No | public test |
Yes |
| LifeLines | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| MacFamilyTree | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Personal Ancestral File | (v4.x/5.x) | No | No | No | (v4.x) | (v4.x/5.x) | No | No | No | (v4.x) | (v5.x) |
| Reunion | Yes | No | No | Yes* | Yes* | Yes* | No | Yes* | No | No | No |
| RootsMagic | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| SmartGenealogy | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| The Master Genealogist | Yes[g] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | partial | Yes | No[h] | No[h] | Yes |
- a Ahnenblatt is also available in Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Turkish
- b Genbox Family History is also available in Russian, Slovak, Slovenian; partial translations are available for Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.
- c GRAMPS is also available in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, and Slovak.
- d Legacy Family Tree is being tested in Finnish.
- e Can be created by available translation program.
- f Includes both nynorsk and bokmål
- g Includes U. K. English and U. S. English.
- h Can be created using the built-in translation tables.
- i GenoPro is also available in Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian/Lettish, Russian and Vietnamese. Partial translations are available in Portuguese (Brazil), Indonesian, Dutch, Hebrew, Swedish, Portuguese (Portugal), Lithuanian, Turkish, Chinese Traditional/Taiwan (Big5), Albanian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Icelandic, Scots Gaelic, Chinese simplified (GB2312), and 18 more languages translated less than 50%.
- j Ancestral Quest also has partial translations in Chinese (Traditional) and Finnish.
[edit] References
- ^ Planetspriv (2010-11-04). "Family Tree Maker software (Mac) Message Board". Ancestry.com. http://boards.ancestry.com/boardinfo.aspx?p=topics.software.ftmmac. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ^ GRAMPS developers. "Installation on Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris". http://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Windows.2C_FreeBSD.2C_Mac_OS_X.2C_Solaris. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ WineHQ - Legacy Family Tree - AppDB Entry
[edit] External links
- Genealogical Software Report Card[dead link] - Bill Mumford's opinions on the important features of genealogy software, with charts showing features available in common products. Very dated information. (Historical)Archive copy at the Wayback MachineRIP
- Genealogy Software Reviews - User reviews and ratings of genealogy software.
- RootsWorks PDA2001 Genealogy Software Comparison - Deals with genealogy software running on portable digital assistants (PDAs).
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