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Revision as of 05:48, 25 May 2010

This article compares several selected client based genealogy programs. Please see the entries for the individual products for further information.

Note: Web based genealogy software are not discussed here.

General information

Software Example(s) Latest release Free to use Free software Software license
Ahnenblatt Ahnenblatt 2009-07-12 Yes No Proprietary
Ancestral Quest 2009 No (60 Day Free Trial) No Proprietary
Brother's Keeper 2010-04-26 No No Shareware
Family Historian 2009-May No No Proprietary
Family Tree Builder Family Tree Builder 2009-August Yes (Free ver.) No Proprietary
Family Tree Maker 2010 No No Proprietary
Genbox Family History 2007-11-17 No No Proprietary
GenealogyJ GenealogyJ 2010-02-19 Yes Yes GNU GPL
GenoPro GenoPro 2008-9-15 No No Proprietary
GRAMPS GRAMPS 2010-04-22 Yes Yes GNU GPL
Legacy Family Tree 2010-01-30 Yes (Standard Edition) No Proprietary
LifeLines 2007-10-06 Yes Yes MIT License
MacFamilyTree MacFamilyTree running under Mac OS X 2010-05-14 No No Shareware
Personal Ancestral File Screen shot of PAF v5.2 2002-07-23 Yes No Proprietary
Reunion 2008-03-26 No No Proprietary
SmartGenealogy 2007-05-02 Yes No Unknown
The Master Genealogist 2008-06-28 No No Proprietary

Operating system support

Software Windows DOS Mac OS Linux BSD Unix
Ahnenblatt Yes No No Wine[c] No No
Ancestral Quest Yes No No Wine[c] No No
Brother's Keeper Yes Terminated (5.2B) No Wine[c] No No
Family Historian Yes No No No No No
Family Tree Builder Yes No No Wine[c](v2) No No
Family Tree Maker Yes No Terminated Wine[c] No No
Genbox Family History Yes No No Wine[c] No No
GenealogyJ Java[a] No Java[a] Java[a] No Java[a]
GenoPro Yes No No Wine[c] No No
GRAMPS Yes No ported[b][1] Yes Yes Yes
Legacy Family Tree Yes No No Wine[c][2] No 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] No No
Reunion Terminated (4.0) No Yes Wine[c](v4.0) No No
SmartGenealogy Yes No No No No No
The Master Genealogist Yes Terminated (2.3) No Wine[c] No No

a Using Java
b Ported
c Using Wine

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
Brother's Keeper No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? No ?
Family Historian No Yes Yes Yes — Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? No ?
Family Tree Builder No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Family Tree Maker No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes ? ? No ?
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 No ? 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
SmartGenealogy No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? No ?
The Master Genealogist No Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? No ?

Features - International versions

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 No[e] Yes Yes No[e]
Ancestral Quest[a] Yes No[e] Yes No[e] No[e] No[e] No[e] No[e] No[e] No[e] No[e]
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 Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No
Genbox Family History[b] Yes[f] No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes partial Yes partial partial
GenealogyJ Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
GenoPro[h][i] Yes No No 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
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, 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%.

References

  1. ^ GRAMPS developers. "Installation on Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris". Retrieved 2008-07-22.
  2. ^ WineHQ - Legacy Family Tree - AppDB Entry
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