Haig Armen » software http://www.haigarmen.com a play by play commentary Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:54:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tree in a Forest http://www.haigarmen.com/tree-in-a-forest/ http://www.haigarmen.com/tree-in-a-forest/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:03:16 +0000 haig http://blog.haigarmen.com/?p=26 tree_reflection.jpg

I’m curious about genealogy. Maybe it has something to do with being Armenian and having your family tree cut off after only a few generations, but I’ve recently been looking into software to enable genealogy tracking. What I’ve found is the following software:
Family Tree Maker (PC)
Legacy Family Tree (PC)
RootsMagic (PC)
REUNION (Mac)
MacFamily Tree (Mac)

They all seemed somewhat amateur and small, if not completely dated. I realized that this is a perfect opportunity for an online application. After all, you need a community of people inputing data into it, to be effective. Wikipedia had a few open-source genealogy options.

As a trial, I’ve installed phpGedView at treeinaforest.com to give it a whirl. My first impression is that it seems fairly comprehensive but lacking in usability and aesthetics.

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