Family Historian 4 Deluxe Genealogy Software (PC CD)

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• ASIN: B0028Y4FGG
• Release Date: 20 Jun 2009
  

By : Calico Pie
Price : £43.06

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Instantly create Ancestor, Descendant, Hourglass and Everyone diagrams, as well as Family Historian's very own All Relatives diagrams. Diagrams are tightly integrated and used for browsing, exploring and editing - as well as for creating superb wall charts. Print diagrams at any scale or orientation. All diagrams are fully configurable and most options can be changed on-the-fly.
Smart Trees
Family Historian's smart trees give you unprecedented control over chart layout. Hide, show, move, resize and re-order boxes and watch as trees automatically adjust themselves to reflect your changes. Click on buttons to expand or close any branch on any diagram, and, again, the diagram will automatically adjust to accommodate the change.
Link People to Faces in Pictures
In Family Historian, not only can you add as many pictures as you like for each person, you can add a picture once and link it to each person in the picture. You can even link each person to their own face in the picture, and show just faces in diagrams without having to 'crop' your pictures. Family Historian is the only Windows family tree application we know to support this - and yet it is really an essential feature if you wish to work with pictures. You can display pictures (and faces from pictures) in diagrams and reports, and family tree CDs and websites.
100% GEDCOM
GEDCOM is the universal standard format for shared genealogical data; but applications vary significantly in how well they support it. Family Historian is, we believe, unique in being 100% GEDCOM compatible, and 100% GEDCOM complete. '100% GEDCOM compatible' means that Family Historian can save all of its data to the GEDCOM format. '100% GEDCOM complete' means that Family Historian can load all records and fields from a GEDCOM file - including other applications' extensions to GEDCOM. You might think that 100% completeness is the least you should expect; but it is not what you usually get. We know of no other application that comes close. Other family tree applications simply discard records and fields that they cannot load. Some will tell you when they do this. Some won't.
Create Websites and Family Tree CDs
Creating superb and stylish websites or Family Tree CDs is easy using Family Historian's powerful wizards. You can omit all details of 'private' individuals, or show only restricted information about others. You have extensive configuration options if you want to use them; or you can just use default settings and still get great-looking results.
Internet Search
Search for your ancestors in websites across the Internet using Family Historian's integrated Internet Search tool.
Highly Configurable Reports
Family Historian comes with 29 fully-featured and highly-configurable reports (not including query-based reports - see below). These reports include narrative reports, outline reports, summary reports, complete-record reports, the Family Group Sheet and more. All reports can be saved as web pages or as word-processor documents. A wide choice of options are provided for the display of pictures (and captions), and sources. You can create custom reports using any existing report as a template.
Excellent Support for Sources
Where did you get your information from? Family Historian makes it easy to record your sources with its automatic source citations. Also invaluable is the ability to copy and paste citations from one event or attribute to another. Family Historian's Property Dialog is designed so that you can see at a glance the sources of each item of data without have to 'drill down' to another level.
A Uniquely Powerful Merge/Compare Facility
Only Family Historian lets you compare any two GEDCOM files side-by-side so that you can see exactly where and how they differ, and how they will end up if you merge them - before you commit yourself to merging anything. You have complete control over the merge process (and can tweak or override any aspect of it). You can see at a glance, exactly which records will be updated, which will be unaffected, and which will be new (i.e. have no match in the current file). This is file merge/compare. Family Historian also supports both record and branch merge/compare.
A Powerful and Sophisticated Query Engine
A 'query' allows you to extract whatever data you want from your family tree file. For example, you could use a query to get any of the following information: what were the ages at death of X's ancestors in the 19th Century? what boys names have been used by the descendants of Y? who are your relatives and what are the 5 closest ways that you are related to each of them (if you are related to them more than once)?
Installable Fact Sets (Events ; Attributes)
With Family Historian you can record full details of any events in the lives of the individuals or families in your files. Family Historian comes with a large number of pre-defined events for you to select from (birth, death, baptism, marriage, divorce, etc), but you can easily create any new event types that you wish, and use them exactly like standard events. Attributes are facts about a person - e.g. their religion, where they lived, what they did.
Notes ; Documents
You can have as many notes as you like about each individual in your family tree file (this is in addition to notes relating to specific events or attributes). Often, in practice, when an individual marries, you will wish to make notes that apply both to them and to their spouse. Sometimes you will wish to write notes that apply to a number of individuals. Family Historian supports all of these scenarios. It also allows you to see at a glance, and read, all the notes that are relevant to a given individual - and, of course, provide source citations for all of them.
No Limits
Each user can have an unlimited number of spouses, children, sets of parents, pictures, multimedia, notes, source citations, and so on. You can store multiple, possibly conflicting versions of most items of data, such as names, dates, places, etc.; and you can assess the reliability of each version.
Easy and Fun to Use
With its innovative and visually-oriented user-interface, Family Historian is not just very easy to use - exploring and working with your family tree data has never been more fun.
Tutorial, Documentation and Help
Family Historian comes with a Quick Start Guide booklet in the box, to get you started using the program. When you install the program, also installed onto your computer is a complete PDF (electronic document) version of the book: "Getting the Most From Family Historian 4".
Reviews
“An excellent package ... Everything you need to record your family tree in one box”, Your Family Tree, July 2009. Family Historian was awarded the Your Family Tree ‘Seal of Approval’.
“One headline-grabbing feature is Family Historian’s superb media management tool … No other package comes close in this regard … the charting and reporting options are as impressive as ever”, Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, July 2009.
Magazine Reviews
"The best ‘just got better still" (Family Tree Magazine, July 2009)
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Family Historian 4 Deluxe Genealogy Software (PC CD)

 

Technical Details

• Superb charts, including the Everyone chart and Family Historians unique All Relatives chart
• Unrivalled support for pictures: link individuals to their face within each photo they appear in
• Explore and work with your family tree data visually using dynamic diagrams and smart trees
• 100% support for GEDCOM, the global standard genealogy format
• Create great-looking websites ; family tree CDs with powerful, easy-to-use wizards
• Add video and sound ; other multimedia
• Search the Internet using Family Historians Internet search tool
• Multi-level undo/redo
• Comes with 29 standard reports – or you can create your own custom reports
• Now easier than ever to learn, and even more fun to use

Customer Reviews

I tried several genealogy programs when I first started researching my family, some free, some I bought. As the scale of my research increased and I started to gather a variety of material of all decriptions, I soon found that each and every one of them seemed to start to impose limits on what I could store, have limited functionality, or simply could not do what I wanted to do. I researched more offerings and finally came across Family Historian V3. I've now upgraded to V4, and am still discovering thing that I can do with the program, whilst it meets with all my other requirements for documenting my history, helping manage multimedia files, creating web pages, and so on. I particularly like the way I can store a single image, but link it in whole or in part to other people in my tree.
Like any piece of software, rewards start to flow when you put time and effort into learning what it can do, and here the very responsive (and free!) help forum is a great assistance. From the help forum you can also get companion programs, queries, and templates to ease data entry from censuses, for example, or to help keep details of military service, plus lots of other stuff to help you get the best from this software. There's also a wish list so that you can put up your own suggestions for improvements or functionality yo would like to see in future releases, and the progam's author is also a frequent contributor.
You don't get multitudes of extra CDs of data that are of no use, but you do get a solid product, with excellent support, using a single and non-propriatory database format. I wouldn't go back to any other program now.

I have been using version 3 of this package for a good while, and consider version 4 a worthy upgrade, making a solid, UK aimed package even stronger.
All the plus points from version 3 persist, a good support forum, support for media and solid gedcom support. This has all been supplemented by a new project approach and a focus window that transforms the look and feel remarkably, and would have made it easier for me to learn had version 3 had the same.
It isn't all encompassing, but it is a great tool - try the demo before deciding!

 

Family Historian 4 Deluxe Genealogy Software (PC CD)