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From: "Ernest Bessinger" <>
Subject: Re: Finding duplicates
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:33:37 +0200


Hi Erol,
Many programs have a feature to compare for duplicates. I don't want
to start a discussion on "what software is the best". I use Family
Origins and it has a tuning facility on how "tight" you would like to
make the duplicate checker (i.e. 1 year, 5 years, 10 years ...).

I am sure many competitive products will have this feature. I enclose
a list of addresses you can scan and possibly download some demos.

Attach:
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List of genealogical software sites.

Program & website

Genealogical Information Manager
http://www.mindspring.com/~dblaine/gimhome.html (demo available)

Family Origins http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/ or
http://members.aol.com/famorigins
(demo
available)

GED2WWW http://home.nordnet.fr/~jbfahy

FamPub (Progeny) http://www.progeny2.com

Ancestral Quest http://www.ancquest.com/download.htm (demo
available)

Genius http://www.gensol.com.au/ (demo
available)

The Master Genealogist http://www.whollygenes.com/ (demo
available)

Ultimate Family Tree http://www.uftree.com

Legacy http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/ (demo
available)

Family Tree Maker http://www.familytreemaker.com/abtffiv.html
(demo
available)

Brother's Keeper
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Brothers_Keeper

Parents http://win95.daci.net/ (search for
"genealogy")

GenDesigner http://home.sol.no/~salthe/gendesigner

Generations http://www.sierra.com/titles/genealogy

PAF
http://www.genealogy.org/~paf/@howbuy.html

Ancestors and Descendants http://www.AIA-AnD.com

Fzip Family Tree (shareware) http://www.ozemail.com.au/~acroft/

Cumberland Family Tree http://www.cf-software.com
(demo
available)

Family Matters (shareware) http://members.aol.com/matterware

TREE-O (GCS shareware) http://bfree.on.ca/vmall/gcs/

Family Scrapbook http://users.southeast.net/~vesd (demo available)

Reunion (Mac)
http://www.leisterpro.com/Default.html

Gene (Mac shareware)
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gene

Amiga: Scion, A-Gene*, Family Connections, and Origins, located at
Aminet:
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/aminetbin/find search for
"genealogy"
(no quotes)

GeneWeb http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/
Runs on Windows NT/95 and Linux.

A-Gene(Windows and Amiga* versions)
http://www.btinternet.com/~genealogy/agene.htm

Kith and Kin (British shareware)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SpanSoft/kk.htm

Heredis (French) http://www.heredis.com

HazaData (Dutch) http://www.hazadata.com (demo available)

PRO-GEN (Dutch) http://home.wxs.nl/~progen/home.html
demo
available (output in 8 languages possible)

Pedigree for DOS
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pedigreesoftware

Win-Family http://www.jamodat.gk (demo
available)
Currently available in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Czech,
French,
German, Dutch, Portuguese and English

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-----Original Message-----
From: Erol Gericke <>
To: <>
Date: 05 May 1999 07:47
Subject: Finding duplicates

>I guess everybody has the problem sometime. From a
>gravestone you identify Gert Smit who was born circa 1826.
>Circa because the gravestone is badly weathered. Later you
>find a christening record for Gerhardus Smit born circa
>1831, circa because the writing is hardly legible. In the
>database index these two records are not close enough to
>each other to catch the eye but they are in fact the same
>person.
>
>Unless I am dreaming I am sure that I have evaluated a
>genealogical program that catches this situation if the
>names are similar and the dates are within a selected
>timespan. Has anybody ever seen anything like this.
>
>Tell me I'm not dreaming,
>Erol.
>
>
>
>
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