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║ Information About FAMVIEW - From File FAMVIEW.INF ║
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║ PAF Review - Edition 93.1 - March 1993 ║
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Family Viewer provides an enhanced ability to display information
(via GEDCOM).
Version: 2.0
Author: Robert Lott Billard
Address: 34 Forest Avenue, Lynbrook, N.Y. 11563
Version Date: January 1993
BBS File Name: FAMVIE20.ZIP
Software Type: Shareware
Fee: $15
Read/Write: Read only.
Descended from many generations of pack-rats, the author had old
wills, land deeds, and diaries that make mention of relatives not
in my direct line (Aunt Sarah, Uncle Abe, Aunt Anna, Cousin
Charlie, etc.) Who are these people??? How do they fit into the
picture??? Not one genealogy program seemed to provide a quick
and easy way to show all of great-grandma's close relatives, even
if their data had been entered. Family Viewer was written to fill
that gap.
Family Viewer is not a general purpose genealogy database program.
Although it uses its own data structures, this data CANNOT be
changed and can ONLY be entered by reading in a GEDCOM file
generated by some other program such as PAF.
For convenience, Family Viewer allows you to preview a GEDCOM file
without having to convert and save the data. This would be useful
if you want to see how large it is and what family names are
included. the program will read the file displaying the number of
individuals, families and family names. When finished, it will
display a list box of all the family names.
When names are entered, they are converted into 'metaphs' to be
used for searching. A metaph is similar to a soundex code, but it
uses only letters instead of letters and numbers. (See Metaphone
algorithm, Lawrence Philips, Computer Language magazine, Dec 90)
Photographs, maps, coats-of-arms, or any document that can be put
into a graphics file using the 'PCX' format can be attached to a
person, along with a comment, and displayed by this program.