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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Countryquine on Monday 03 January 22 13:29 GMT (UK)
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I am sure this will be on the board already but I will ask again as there might be new products suitable.
I have tinkered with various pieces of software to record family history but I would like something I can take out and show to family. I am particularly keen to record little snippets about my ancestors individual lives, rather than just their BMD details.
If anyone has a system they use which works well for that, bought or their own creation, I would be interested to hear.
Thanks for reading.
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Family Historian can create "narrative reports" and several other types of "readable" documents from all of the facts attached to individuals entered into the software, either as individuals, families, by ancestors, descendants or both. The reports can be printed to paper, saved as documents which can e.g. be in PDF format and carried on a Kindle or similar reader, or as an MS Word or other type of document. They can include images of people, places, documents or any images saved in the software if desired.
Alternatively the full program on a portable laptop or similar can be used to show similar reports on screen, generated in real time, as well as images of people, places and documents; family trees showing any individual in the database as root person, with the generation of relationship lines between individuals to show how they are related if required.
I would imagine other genealogical software programs have similar facilities to a greater or lesser degree, but FH is the one I am familiar with.
I used it recently on my laptop to show various items such as described above to a recently traced relative, when we met for lunch in a pub. I also regularly send printed narrative reports saved as PDF documents be email to relatives that I keep informed of my research.
I don't know if that might be what you are looking for. It is far more powerful and configurable than any online family tree created on the usual sites can ever be.
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I am not really sure what you are looking for, your title states “Paper family history recording” but the body of your posting mentions software.
Most family history software (I use Brothers Keeper) allows you to attach notes, pictures and media to each individual person or family group. In a similar way you could use word processing software to produce notes etc. to print out.
This is one reason why I use Brothers Keeper as it allows me to use word-processors such as Microsoft Word from within the program to compile my notes. It also allows me to make print-outs of the notes.
Cheers
Guy