Family Tree Legends’ Parent Company Up For Sale
March 20, 2006
Pearl Street Software, makers of Family Tree Legends among other things, is now up for sale, according to Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. Family Tree Legends is a Windows genealogy application, and fairly popular. The founders/developers still consider a viable genealogy application (and it’s not just family Tree Legends, if you read the article linked at Eastman’s above, there are several other areas involved in the sale), however they want to pursue a different opportunity.
If you have ever wanted to sell/publish genealogy software and didn’t want to develop from the ground up, here is your chances.
Family Historian 3.0 - Just About to Ship
March 19, 2006
Family Historian 3.0 from Calico Pie, LTD, will be available at the end of the month in the UK, and will take a little longer to reach distribution outside of the UK. This is both the boxed version and the upgrade CD version, and the date is expected to be March 28th. With this release of the genealogy program, they are dropping support for Windows 95 and Windows NT, for technical reasons. It runs on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP as well as 64-bit versions of Windows.
You can read about some of the new things in 3.0 in a story we posted back in November here.
News via the Family Historian User Group website.
PhpGedView 4.0 beta 6
March 17, 2006
The beta for PhpGedView has received its sixth and potentially final release. PhpGedView is an online genealogy program that utilizes PHP, MySQL, etc., in order to allow collaboration between multiple people over the internet. You can edit all of the information available, as well as add to it, you can create privacy restrictions (logins required, information of living individuals restricted, etc.). It doesn’t look like anything was changed, just bug fixes and final packaging to test before the Final Release of PhpGedView 4.0. You can download and test it here.
Updates/Developer’s Note:
In anticipation of the final release, beta 6 is divided up into several different packages. The purpose of dividing up the packages is to make the default installation smaller but still allow you to include the other options if you want to:
-phpGedView-4.0beta6-all contains everything from the CVS including all languages, places, flags, and themes. This is similar to the other beta releases.
-phpGedView-4.0beta6 release only contains the most popular languages (de, en, fr, he, nl, no, sv), flags, and themes (cloudy, standard, ocean, simplygreen, xenea) and does not contain any places.
-places-4.0beta6 contains all of the places from the “all” package
-languages-4.0beta6 contains all of the languages plus some extra files required for some languages.
-themes-4.0beta6 contains all of the themes from the all release
-flags-4.0beta6 contains all of the flag files
