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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: December 06, 2005
- Total Downloads: 56,961
- Downloads last week: 291
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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 translations for English, German, Danish, Polish, and Slovenian.
Version 3.6.2 contains improvements to data entry, templates, and charts. Startup options offer access to a sample database to try out the system.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Genbox Family History 3.6.2
"Excellent program for serious users"
Pros: Takes an 'event' based view which allows for including data on witnesses to each event. This means much less data entry if you want to include all the information your sources provide.
Speaking of which, it has excellent sourcing capabilities - it's possible to include different sources for date and place of an event, for example. It also has highly customisable 'sentences' to create more flexible and readable narratives than most programs allow.
I have tried virtually every genealogy program out there, and haven't seen one with better charting capability.
This is a full featured program and as such may require a little time and effort to learn especially for those new to computers or not familiar with an 'event' based approach - but if you're serious about your genealogy it's well worth it.
Cons: Doesn't have quite the analysis power I would like compared to one of the other top end products, but is getting there with each upgrade.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Genbox Family History 3.6.2
"The best program of its kind!"
Pros: Every report that you could want and every feature that you would want. TMG pales into insignificance!
Cons: NONE!
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