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In article <1272@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
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>I am looking for a good geneology (family tree) program.
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>Howard C. Johnson

There are many genealogy packages available.  There are several tolerable
PD packages out there, but for $35 you can buy a first-rate package called
Personal Ancestral File (PAF) that the Mormon Church publishes.  You can
order by phone - call the Latter Day Saints' Family History Library in
Salt Lake City and they can probably direct you to the right people.

(The Mormons are heavy into genealogy for religious reasons, but they are
remarkably nice about helping all us J. Random family historians, too...)

COMMSOFT up in the Bay Area somewhere publishes Roots III, which is arguably
the cadillac of genealogy packages.  If you buy it from them it will cost
around $300 (depending on what utilities you order), but you can save $50
by ordering from one of the mail order catalogues.

I used PAF until I had about 2500 people on file, then switched to Roots
because I wanted the fancy footnoting and book-generating features it has.
(That's right - Roots III will turn your data into a formatted, publishable
family history...)

Incidentally, you might want to check out soc.roots on the net, the roots-l
mailing list, and the National Genealogical Conference on fidonet.

Happy hunting for bears!  -B
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