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Subject: FREE Pedigree Software

The Latter Day Saints site online (http://www.familysearch.org/) offers free
genealogy software to download. It will also work for canines. You can
save your work as gedcom files and easily share via email with others who
have the genealogy software installed on their computers. The info you email
to them can be incorporated into their pedigree database easily.
I think this is a link to the free downloads page:
http://www.ldscatalog.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&categoryId=7000000&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=100069&level=2&bcname=Softwa re%20Downloads%20-%20Free&top=Y&resetCat=N&replBC=subcatlist100069

I can't remember if you can save as .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) using the LDS
program, but you can do that with most genealogy programs and anyone can
open the files using Adobe Acrobat which is a free, downloadable program.
You'd save in this format basically as a read-only document.

If you do any family genealogy and have software such as Family Tree Maker
you can easily do your canine pedigrees using that software. You can also
include under the names any number of facts which works well with canines.
I guess you could use a "fact" area to list the words "dam" or "sire" too.
I just leave off the tags. You can include their color and AKC number as a
fact.
You can copy and paste these trees to your web site or to a word processing
program as a photo and save them in a variety of formats such as .pdf which
can be opened using Adobe Acrobat.

Here's a link to a sample pedigree I produced using Family Tree Maker. I
didn't include the AKC numbers and colors under the names. That's my next
project:
http://www.corgis.biz/Pedigree%20CH%20Pecan%20Valley%20King%20Georgey.htm

If you are careful while typing in the names of the dogs as in always
capitalizing or not capitalizing letters in titles, etc...... when you
create other pedigree trees the program will automatically pick up on
duplicate names and fill in automatically from there for you. The program
will question why everyone has the same last name such as "CH" but it lets
you negate the query and leave your information as typed.

These genealogy programs will also print out a degree of kinship report
which "almost" works like a COI calculator. With Family Tree Maker you can
also include a photo of the dog in your database which is neat.

Just thought I would share this idea. Maybe it will be of use to someone.
If you try it, let me know how it goes.

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AJ

[ January 02, 2005, 01:20 AM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Actually I've been looking for a pedigree program and I just might try her reccomendations!

AJ
 

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Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
 
This is great.
Now my dogs will want to do their family history work and submit the names.

[ December 29, 2004, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: Yozhik ]
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
Yohzik,

Have you actually used it for humans? How easy is it to fill out and trace lines through? There is a canine software called WinPed that is charging about $90 that is semi-standard and has some nice doggy specific features, but I'm all about free.

AJ
 

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Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
 
AJ, I've found the software fairly simple to use. It lets you print out pedigree charts for both people and dogs.
 

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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
Plus, the LDS can now pray for deceased family pets.
 

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Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
 
Actually, I haven't used it, but I'm sure that others can give you some input.

As they already have
 

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Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
 
The thought briefly crossed my mind to keep track of my Sims2 Legacy Challenge family, but decided that wouldn't be a good use of resources.
 

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Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
I was wanting something to keep track of the hatrack families, but PAF (the LDS family history software) doesn't have extendible relationships. This is a major flaw. We really need a way to keep track of minionships and acolytism, for example, plus have the ability to add whole new classes of relationships as they arise. Why don't any geneology programs have that obviously crucial feature, I wonder?
 

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Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
 
rotfl again... I just realized it is a good thing that LDS software isn't going to argue with me about my canine polygamous relationships....

AJ
 

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Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
 
There was an arrangement in that Nova episode about Dogs where a woman was perfecting her Papillons by some rather intense inbreeding. I don't know that there is even any limitation on that. Though I think a good program would at least check to see if you really meant to have your grandmother linked to her husband's father instead of her husband. It's annoying when a bunch of guys have the same name.
 

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