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Genealogy version 2 released

April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 VinceH

Receiving a major update from R-Comp, their Genealogy software is now at version 2. The changes make it easier to use, and brings the ability to produce many new charts and diagrams.

News bit: Chris Hall’s FamTree now available from !Store

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018 VinceH

Timing it perfectly for the middle of the holiday part of the RISCOSitory bunker’s temporary shut down, Chris Hall has made his genealogy application, FamTree, available from !Store, priced at £15.00.

Genealogy app GedText v1.14 released

March 23, 2013March 24, 2013 VinceH

GedText gets text from GEDCOM. Geddit? In early December, Rob Hemmings announced a new version of GedText, his application that extracts information from GEDCOM files, and presents it as text in a more human-friendly format, or as a DDF file for use with EasiWriter and Techwriter, Impression or Ovation Pro. GEDCOM, which is short for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a file format for exchanging data between different genealogical software packages. Genealogy, of course, is the popular pastime of tracing ancestry and family trees and histories.