Ancestris v13 November 9 – 20, 2024 Updates
If you use Ancestris 13, the “development” version of Ancestris, the free open-source Java-based genealogy program, you’re probably aware that it has a fairly active development … Read more
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Throwback Thursday: Gramps First Released in 2001
While working on the history of Gramps, I came cross a wonderful retrospective on the Gramps blog by the original creator of Gramps, Don Allingham, detailing … Read more
Ancestris v13 – Oct 16 – Nov 7 Updates
Ancestris 13, the “development” version of Ancestris, the free open-source Java-based genealogy program has received several more updates over the past 3 weeks or so. They … Read more
Sunday Spotlight: Ancestor Tree Manager 11.0
Yesterday, Iris Voswinkel released Ancestor Tree Manager 11.0, a major update to the free Java-based cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) genealogy program that generates a family tree … Read more
Ancestris v13 – Oct 1 – Oct 15 Updates
Ancestris 13, the “development” version of the free open-source Java-based genealogy program continues to see a lot of improvements over the past few weeks, including some … Read more
Sunday Spotlight: GenScriber for Windows, Mac, and Linux
This weekend’s spotlight is on a very useful desktop genealogy utility that’s been around for over a decade, GenScriber. It’s free for non-commercial use, and is … Read more
Sunday Spotlight: Chromebooks and Genealogy
Dick Eastman has been talking about the use of Chromebooks (and cloud-based systems in general) in genealogy research for many years. In fact, if you mentioned … Read more
A Note on Gramps Plugins/Addons
I’ve been working on the 2024 genealogy software comparison and have hit 130 entries, ranging from full database/genealogy data management programs down to web browser extensions … Read more
Sunday Spotlight: Ancestris 13
Ancestris 13, the “development” version of the free open-source Java-based genealogy program has seen an uptick in development over the past week, with some major updates, … Read more