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Best Genealogy Organisation of 2011: BrightSolidīrightSolid has been quite busy this year. It is easy to use and isn't just a viewer like several other mobile apps, but an editor that allows you to create and edit trees on the go.

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Some features require a paid account, but you can use it with a free account as well. honourable mention: Ancestry appĪ introduced the Ancestry app, first for iOS and then for Android.

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The release of GED-inline inspired an update of VGED, and now both support GEDCOM 5.5.1. Tim Forsythe's VGED was limited to GEDCOM 5.5, and FamilySearch, the creator and keeper of the GEDCOM standard, never bothered to finish the GEDCOM 5.5 validator they once started. GED-inline filled a long-existing void although GEDCOM 5.5.1 dates from 1999, GED-inline is the first ever GEDCOM 5.5.1 validator. GEDCOM validators may be a boring product category, but they are important they allow you to see how well the GEDCOM output of genealogy applications matches the GEDCOM specification. GED-inline is a GEDCOM validator created by Nigel Munro Parker. Participating archives end up owning the scans and indexes for their own collections. Through the Vele Handen platform, archives can have their collections scanned and indexed. The Vele Handen is just a service the archives pay for. The Dutch Militia Registers are the first records to be indexed by Vele Handen, more indexing projects have been announced.Ĭrowd-sourcing indexes isn't new, but Vele Handen is doing it right.Īn issue with indexing for FamilySearch or is that they become the owner of the index. Vele Handen (Many Hands) is a crowd-sourcing site created on the initiative of the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Best New Genealogy Product of 2011: Vele Handen Various plug-ins are available on the German forum, which has English sections. While other applications generate hopelessly large lists of possible duplicates, Ahnenblatt manages to highlight just the actual duplicates.

Its consistency check uses some awkward an confusing messages, but you should try Ahnenblatt for just its duplicate check: It is a free, well-behaved, Unicode-based and multi-lingual application that offers all the basics and then some.Īhnenblatt imports GEDCOM, and exports GEDCOM, GEDCOM XML ( a.k.a.

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honourable mention: AhnenblattĪhnenblatt is the best little-known Windows genealogy application.

Several competing products saw major upgrades this year, but there is no better all-round desktop genealogy application. Perhaps more important than the major new features are the many large and small enhancements that make existing features better and easier to use. New features include a Research Manager, Timeline View, an On This Day list and Count圜heck. RootsMagic introduced RootsMagic 5, which improves upon RootsMagic 4 with new several major features and many small enhancements. Best Genealogy Product of 2011: RootsMagic 5 Here, without further ado, are the GeneAwards 2011. Genealogy 2011 presents an overview of technologies, events, companies and products that shaped the year in genealogy,Īnd Genealogy Trends 2011 highlights some trends.