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.
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.
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.
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AJ, I've found the software fairly simple to use. It lets you print out pedigree charts for both people and dogs. Posts: 4569 | Registered: Dec 2003
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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. Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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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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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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