Free Genealogy Software Advice

[Patscga]

I'm an old lady with a very young friend who wants to begin working on his
family genealogy. His monetary resources are quite limited and I want to
suggest some software he can download without paying. Any advice would be much
appreciated.
Pat

[Kurt F]

"Patscga" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I'm an old lady with a very young friend who wants to begin working on his
family genealogy. His monetary resources are quite limited and I want to
suggest some software he can download without paying. Any advice would be
much
appreciated.
Pat

You have Legacy 5.0 Family Tree, Standard Edition, which is free at
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/

You also have Personal Ancestral File, which also is free at
http://www.ldscatalog.com/webapp/wcs/st ... list100069

Kurt F

[Don.]

Patscga wrote:

I'm an old lady with a very young friend who wants to begin working on his
family genealogy. His monetary resources are quite limited and I want to
suggest some software he can download without paying. Any advice would be much
appreciated.
Pat

He might also be interested in the latest PAF, Version 5. He can read about
"how it works" at http://261.byu.edu/pafmain.html after download it per
Kurt's message. If he's not into genealogy databases, especially PAF, it
could be a different world for him. It's not hard, only "different."

[Peter]

Patscga wrote:

I'm an old lady with a very young friend who wants to begin working on his
family genealogy. His monetary resources are quite limited and I want to
suggest some software he can download without paying. Any advice would be
much appreciated.

For Windows: Legacy
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/

For Linux: Gramps
http://gramps.sourceforge.net/

Legacy and Gramps are free downloads, full function and popular with users.
(sorry, don't know about Mac)

HTH

Peter

[Espen Berg]

Peter wrote:

Patscga wrote:
I'm an old lady with a very young friend who wants to begin working on
his
family genealogy. His monetary resources are quite limited and I want to
suggest some software he can download without paying. Any advice would
be much appreciated.


For Windows: Legacy
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/

For Linux: Gramps
http://gramps.sourceforge.net/

Legacy and Gramps are free downloads, full function and popular with
users. (sorry, don't know about Mac)

For Mac I can recommend Reunion (http://www.leisterpro.com).

Gramps is a Gedcom-parser-program, but it is nice and very easy to translate
to other languages (thanks to OpenSource and Python).


Espen

[Dave Hinz]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:56:10 +0100, Espen Berg <[email protected]> wrote:

Peter wrote:

Patscga wrote:
I'm an old lady with a very young friend who wants to begin working on
his
family genealogy. His monetary resources are quite limited and I want to
suggest some software he can download without paying. Any advice would
be much appreciated.


For Windows: Legacy
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/

For Linux: Gramps
http://gramps.sourceforge.net/

Legacy and Gramps are free downloads, full function and popular with
users. (sorry, don't know about Mac)

For Mac I can recommend Reunion (http://www.leisterpro.com).

Absolutely fantastic program, but I think she's looking for "free".

Dave Hinz

[Anne Chambers]

Dave Hinz wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:56:10 +0100, Espen Berg <[email protected]> wrote:

Peter wrote:


Patscga wrote:

I'm an old lady with a very young friend who wants to begin working on
his
family genealogy. His monetary resources are quite limited and I want to
suggest some software he can download without paying. Any advice would
be much appreciated.

Legacy and Gramps are free downloads, full function and popular with
users. (sorry, don't know about Mac)

For Mac I can recommend Reunion (http://www.leisterpro.com).


Absolutely fantastic program, but I think she's looking for "free".

Dave Hinz

Gene is a good Mac program - shareware.
I've been using it for years - cost to register it was $US 15. Almost
free !
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gene/

Anne
South Australia


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[Espen Berg]

Legacy and Gramps are free downloads, full function and popular with
users. (sorry, don't know about Mac)

For Mac I can recommend Reunion (http://www.leisterpro.com).

Absolutely fantastic program, but I think she's looking for "free".

Dave Hinz

I know. I probably did not read the posting in detail...
The download-version of Reunion is useless for real testing since you can
just have (I think) 35 names in the database, and you can not export a
Gedcom-file of your 35 names to see how the Gedcom-file from Reunion is
organised. Anyway, I bought a Reunion-CD and I am very satisfied!


Espen

[LIPAUL]

Try the LDS site

\http://www.ldscatalog.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&categoryId=7000000&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=100069&level=2&bcname=Software%20Downloads%20-%20Free&top=Y&resetCat=N&replBC=subcatlist100069

....or go to the LDS homepage and click on the tab site for
order/download software and you can get PAF Version 5. It is very
simialr to FTM 2005, and it is absolutely FREE.....

Paul