[17095] in APO-L
Family Tree Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeni Barovian)
Wed Jul 30 17:19:12 1997
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:17:07 -0400
Reply-To: Jeni Barovian <jdb2@PO.CWRU.EDU>
From: Jeni Barovian <jdb2@PO.CWRU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Hi!
I'm looking for software to track my chapter's family trees, and I'm having
a difficult time of it. We've always kept visual representations of our
family trees by hand, but the influx of new brothers each semester makes
the process of updating those trees rather tedious.
I know there are several family tree software titles out there, but in
downloading several shareware packages, I haven't found one that meets our
requirements. The main problem is that big/little brother family trees
aren't exactly structured the same way as "normal" families that these
applications tend to track. Also, the applications that produce the nicest
reports (a graphical tree printout) have too many unnecessary features and
are too expensive.
I'm looking for something that can easily and simply build a tree, based on
big/little relationships, each "node" containing basic information like
name and semester pledged. It should also be able to print a readable and
pleasant-looking tree, on multiple pages, if necessary. A Windows
application would probably be most easily transferrable from one semester
to the next between chapter historians. Am I asking too much? :)
I welcome any suggestions anyone out there may have. Thanks!
In LFS,
Jeni Barovian
VP of Membership, Fall 1997 - Theta Upsilon
Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, Ohio
http://sclwww.scl.cwru.edu/apo
