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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: November 22, 2007
- Total Downloads: 63,575
- Downloads last week: 116
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 15 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This program aims to help you assemble genealogical reports about your family history. Genbox Family History gives you a large number of options for compiling detailed charts, so we would have liked a step-by-step wizard to walk us through the complicated and crowded interface.
The application lets you store basic information, such as names, events, and relationships, as well as more in-depth data regarding ancestry and pedigree. Not only does Genbox Family History arrange names and events into a genealogical chart, it helps you conduct research by managing your targets and correspondence.
The program seems to have almost everything a genealogist needs, although more inexperienced users likely will find themselves overwhelmed. We like the fact you can work with several databases at once, and the tools for helping you cope with different spellings of the same surname are a welcome addition. Due to its complexity, we can only really recommend this program to advanced users familiar with this type of software.
Publisher's description
From Thoughtful Creations :Genbox Family History is a tool for managing family genealogy information and producing charts and reports, with support for multiple names, witnesses, event and source templates, a template preview complete with footnotes, and conflicting-event data. The chart options include source citations, box widths sized to content, multiple key individuals, legend boxes, various styles and content for arbitrary groups, multimedia support, wall, fan, time line, book layout, print preview, editing capabilities, and output to JPEG, PNG, and BMP formats. The reports include ancestor, descendant, family group, outline, pedigree, calendar, and custom layouts with output to RTF and HTML. The tools include advanced querying, a problem spotter, a relationship calculator, a spell checker, and sophisticated list processing. Includes full Unicode support with translations for 11 languages. Version 3.7.1 adds some minor enhancements and a number of corrections.
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Version 3.7.1 adds some minor enhancements and a number of corrections.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Genbox Family History 3.7.1
"Excellent, but not for the computer novice"
Pros: If you only want to put a bunch of names in and look at a Chart, choose another program. If you want to create a database of your family history, choose this package.
It has an extremely easy interface that allows anyone to jump right in and create a family tree. The front-end screen for data entry is simple and fairly intuitive. Very powerful database with ability to link multimedia files to your family tree.
After you go beyond the first screen, things can get a little complicated. This is where some computer savvy will come in handy. Not to say that is impossible to use, but someone with only basic skills may find difficult to use. Well worth the money for anyone interested in creating a really nice family tree dbase.
Cons: Print options for large family tree Charts seems to a little limited.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Genbox Family History 3.7.1
Pros: A good price for a product that does the job. Reasonably intuitive with a bit of practice. Probably has more to offer than a keen amateur would need so encourages you to do more.
Cons: Not a lot. Perhaps the ability to print charts could be a bit easier.
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