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From: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Genealogy
Summary: Brothers Keeper is Great
Keywords: Geneaology
Message-ID: <1539@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 90 19:34:39 GMT
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Reply-To: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
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In article <861@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> schrader@loligo (David F. Schrader) writes:
[Description of other geneaology programs deleted]
>
>Brother's Keeper is available via FTP from SIMTEL20 from
>the PD1:<MSDOS,DATABASE) directory as BK45??D1.ZIP,
>BK45??D2.ZIP, and BK45??D3.ZIP. (3 disks, D1=200+K,
>D2=300+K, and D3=200+K). Haven't had a chance to look
>at them yet... .
>

I have been looking at brother's keeper for the last couple of weeks.
I like it!  It lets you input quite a bit of info on each person.  There are
the obvious Birth, Death & Marriage Dates.  You then have Baptised, and Buried,
and one user-definable field for date/place.  Actually, you can change the
Baptised, & Buried fields to other names.  There is a provision for message
lines to be added for each person.  I believe it is about 5 lines worth of
text that can be entered here.  If that isn't enough there is a way to put
an automatic pointer to a separate text file.

   It has the ability to print out Group Sheets (Tabular listings of info
on a particular family) as well as Tree Diagrams.  You can print a tree
of ancestors of a certain person, or descendants of a certain person.  When
descendants are printed it handles the siblings nicely and spreads things out
so that multi-strip outputs can be taped together to make a huge family tree.
You can also print more tabular types of reports, some of which can be
user customized.  All in all I think it is a very flexible & powerful
tool for keeping track of bunches of related people.   It even calculates
relationships for you! (i.e.  So-and-so is a Third Cousin Four Times Removed).

Just my comments,
bob


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Bob Robison	- Southwest Research Institute, Electromagnetics Div.
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