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- From: dsears@cie.uoregon.edu (Douglas Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
- Subject: Origins -- genealogy program
- Message-ID: <19271@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:04:11 GMT
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- THE PUZZLE FACTORY ANNOUNCES
-
- ORIGINS
-
- The Puzzle Factory, Inc. has released Origins, a dedicated data base for
- keeping track of genealogical information. It will support databases of
- over 6 million individuals. The user interface is designed to be both
- easy to use and very powerful. Origins will correctly handle multiple
- marriages, step-children, unmarried parents, and other difficult
- situations that some programs refuse to allow. Lists Persons, Marriages,
- Parent/Child Index, Ahnentafel (direct ancestors), and Soundex (grouping
- surnames by similar pronunciation). Generates reports on Persons, Family
- Group sheets, Pedigree Charts, Descendants Charts, and Tiny-Tafel
- (a summary of your surnames).
-
- Features include: Automatically call your ARexx-compatible editor to
- create Source and Note files. These files may also be written and
- displayed in hypertext format.
-
- * Search on any combination of fields or by Soundex codes.
-
- * Context-sensitive hypertext help is built in.
-
- * Support for IFF files. Pictures of individuals, marriages,
- baptisms, and family groups may be displayed instantly.
-
- * Import and export data between Origins and other
- genealogical programs using the standard GEDCOM file format.
-
- * Generate Tiny-Tafel listings for use with the Tafel Matching
- System.
-
- * Many useful ARexx functions are included.
-
- A single floppy data disk will hold approximately 2000 person and
- 500 marriage records. Origins is not LDS compatible.
-
- Origins requires V1.3 or later of the Amiga OS, at least 1 megabyte
- of ram, and hard disk or 2 floppy drives minimum configuration.
- Suggested retail price: US$85
-
- For more information or to order, contact:
-
- The Puzzle Factory, Inc.
- P.O. Box 986
- Veneta, OR 97487
- 800-828-9952 or 503-935-3709
- jlavin@cie.uoregon.edu
-
- See The Puzzle Factory's ad in the October or December issue of Amazing
- Computing or the Fall/Winter AC's Guide.
-
- DEMO
-
- There is a freely distributable demo version of Origins available, which
- has a limit on the number of records, has some printing functions
- disabled, and does not include the GEDCOM utilities. The demo can be
- found on BIX and CIS, and the demo file Origins.lzh (and Origins.readme)
- are available for anonymous ftp at wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in
- the directory /systems/amiga/demos/commercial.
-
- This announcement contributed by Doug Sears (dsears@cie.uoregon.edu) on
- behalf of The Puzzle Factory, Inc. (I worked with TPF as a consultant on
- parts of Origins).
-
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