http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com Independent Genealogy Software News & Information Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:23:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2011-rc2/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2011-rc2/#comments Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:17:16 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/?p=337 GRAMPS 2.0.11 RC-2 was released yesterday. GRAMPS is a GNOME genealogy program for Linux and FreeBSD that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. It can be downloaded from here or sourceforge.net/projects/gramps. I was waiting to hear what the changes in the RC2 release were before posting this, but the RC series should be relatively stable to begin with (since it's a Release Candidate), and we'll just update this when we hear more.]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2011-rc2/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2011-rc1/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2011-rc1/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:16:39 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/?p=335 GRAMPS 2.0.11 RC-1 is now available . GRAMPS is a GNOME genealogy program for Linux and FreeBSD that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. Note: GRAMPS 2.0.10 is considered a "stable" release. This is the "I will not buy this record, it is scratched" release, and the main updates are Slovak translations, GraphViz plugin enhancements, and GEDCOM import/export improvements. No word on where this fits into the 2.1.0 release series (that is nearing testing).]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2011-rc1/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-210-soon/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-210-soon/#comments Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:44:27 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/?p=325 GRAMPS blog, the developers are "making quite a bit of progress on our way to a 2.2 stable release. Look for a 2.1.0 development release within the next week or two." GRAMPS is an open-source standalone genealogy program for Linux and other Unix-like Operating Systems.]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-210-soon/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2010/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2010/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:18:52 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/?p=303 GRAMPS 2.0.10 is available (Apparently the RC didn't last long). GRAMPS is a GNOME genealogy program for Linux and FreeBSD that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. Note: GRAMPS 2.0.10 is considered a "stable" release. This is the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" release, and mainly consists of bug fixes with some additions. Among the additions, OpenDocument support and a Calendar plugin. It also includes GEDCOM export and import improvements.]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2010-rc1/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2010-rc1/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:56:32 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/?p=301 GRAMPS 2.0.10-RC1 is available. GRAMPS is a GNOME genealogy program for Linux and FreeBSD that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. Note: GRAMPS 2.0.10-RC1 is a Release Candidate and probably should not be used as your active genealogy application. It's considered an "unstable" release. You can download it here - sourceforge.net. No information on changes/fixes is available at this time.]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-2010-rc1/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-progress-in-22-tree/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-progress-in-22-tree/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:43:17 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/?p=290 GRAMPS blog has been updated with news of work on GRAMPS 2.2. GRAMPS is an open-source genealogy software program for Linux (and *BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows one of these days). Work is being done on the database, as well as UI improvements. One thing that looks interesting: a modification of the TreeView that can draw a view with 40 thousand rows within a fraction of a second.]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-progress-in-22-tree/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/what-kind-of-computer-do-you-use-for-genealogy-software/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/what-kind-of-computer-do-you-use-for-genealogy-software/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:47:00 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/what-kind-of-computer-do-you-use-for-genealogy-software/ Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter is currently running a survey about the type of computer and Operating System that genealogists use for their software. You can access the survey here]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/what-kind-of-computer-do-you-use-for-genealogy-software/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-development-musings/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-development-musings/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:35:21 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-development-musings/ Festive Musings, is right up your alley. It's an in-depth look at some of the things one of the developers would like to add to a future version, including discussion of 3rd-party plug-ins.3]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-development-musings/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-22-development/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-22-development/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:21:39 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/?p=266 GRAMPS 2.2 started a few weeks ago. Version 2.2 represents quite a few changes and additions to GRAMPS, the open-source genealogy software program for Linux (and *BSD, Mac OS X, and soon Windows if people are willing to spend the time to port it).]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/gramps-22-development/feed/ 0 http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/lifelines-3050-beta/ http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/lifelines-3050-beta/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:10:25 +0000 admin http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/lifelines-3050-beta/ beta release of LifeLines is out - version 3.0.50. LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history research. Its primarily strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format. You can download it here. This is an open source cross-platform genealogy program (free). ]]> http://www.genealogysoftwarenews.com/lifelines-3050-beta/feed/ 0