Easy To Use
- Views- Pedigree View is used for navigation. Other views include: Family Group Sheet, Descendancy View, Census Tracker, and Timeline.
- Searchable Indexes or Reverse Look-up- Individuals Given name and Surname, Places, Sources, Progenitors, Repositories, and Submitters.
- GEDCOM based- Don't worry about losing data when transferring information to other programs or reading other programs exported GEDCOM files.
- Automatically Linked- Family members are linked as you add them. It supports multiple types of parents, multiple spouses, and multiple names per individual.
- Automatically checks for duplicates as you add people but allows the user to determine whether to keep or merge them for research purposes.
- Spelling Memory- Remembers what you type, and can fill in the remainder of a place or name typed in. It does not come with a pre-assigned name spelling list.
- Easy to use explorer-like help system. Use the ?button to quickly get help on each screen.
- Bookmark any individuals in your database.
- History list lets you backtrack through over 150+ active individuals.
- Back button moves back to previously visited people.
Publish/Print
- Report Wizard- Customizing your reports is easy. Select how many generations to print, exclude living people, what type of sources or notes, numbering format, types of events, and html options.
- Report Wizard- Creates hypertext pages which can then be published onto the web or into books with narrative, notes, charts, photos, source bibliography, index, and more.
- Types of Reports- Unlimited Generation Wall Charts, Census Tracker Report (Free), Pedigree Charts, Family Group Sheets, Narrative reports (register (NEHGS) indented Descendancy, or Henry Descendancy), TimeLine, and U.S. Census Table.
Organize Your Information
- Individual- Record unlimited facts/events, notes, sources, multiple names, alternative names, multiple spouses, multiple parents (adoptive/birth). Search by given name,surname, or query. Automatic or manual merging capabilities.
- Sources-Type each source once, and link to multiple individuals or events for that source. Mark quality of source per individual. Sources can have notes, and Notes can have sources. Has a source index for easy searching or merging of sources.
- Facts/Events- Create your own user defined fact types or use 52 predefined fact types (birth, marriage, death, occupation, religion, etc). Each event can be linked to a source or note. Attributes do not require a date.
- Subsets- Create groups you can use in reports or exporting a portion of your database. Also used to prepare names for LDS ordinances.
- Notes-Can be attached to Sources, Individuals, or Events. Each note can have a source. Note priority printing system lets you select what notes to print and what notes to keep private. Each note can be added to your TODO list.
- Places- Place Name Standardization (New FamilySearch) and Geocoding. Search events or records that contain a specific place, Merge, or edit place and changes occur for all instances. With City,State will fill in county or other information.
FamilySearch
- FamilySearch certified -Ordinance Request, Ordinance Reservation, Access, Helper, and Update. {Sync-coming soon}
- Search, Download, Merge and upload information from FamilySearch from within the software.
- Create Subsets to make the reservation process easier.
- View the Temple Ordinance Status for your ancestors to find work that still needs to be completed, and who has requested it (if not you).
- Normalize your place database using the place information maintained as part of FamilySearch.
Internet Features
- Search Social Security Index, New FamilySearch, and Root’s World Web Connect.
- Automatically create a website including photos, notes, sources, index, surname list, GEDCOM file, email, etc.
- Seven types of hyperlink websites: Pedigree Charts, Family Group Sheets, Descendant Webpage, Descent chart, Ancestor web pages including hyper-linked indexing and GEDCOM file.
- Privacy settings-“Living persons’ display option on your website with Report Wizard.
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