Re: Family History Software

John Cartmell wrote:
In article <g6ml4p$rlu$1$8300dec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter J Seymour
<mozng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Cartmell wrote:

I'm getting fed up with the software that I have found. Help!

When I used an Amstrad PCW word processor I managed to coax a rather
primitive database program to list my ancestors in one view, arrange them
by occurance on marriage certs (inc. fathers and witnesses) in another
view, by appearance in the 1881 (&c) census in another view - and so on.
Note that I didn't have to type in details of the census more than once.

Now are there any commercial offerings (any platform, any price) that do
at least as much?


I'm not entirely clear on what you want to do. Is it: a) Have the ability
to produce reports as indicated. b) Have the ability to generate on-screen
selection lists for further processing?


I want a standard database of individuals linked with family relationships
that will produce trees of all kinds. In addition I want to add an extract
from a census return and link the individuals featured in that extract - with
an option of finding an individual, seeing which censuses (s)he features in,
and displaying those census extracts together with those at the same address.
And with an option to click directly to display the personal details of those
others. And same for marriages (bride, groom, fathers, witnesses) and other
events that bring people together in documents (eg Wills).

Gendatam Suite will do all/most of that depending on how you set up your extracts. If you like playing with betas, there is a beta version currently on www.gendatam.com.
Regards
Peter
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