Of Apples and (Family) Trees ...

Lots of Mac users are using their Macs for genealogy which has led to quite a few genealogy applications for the Macintosh. This page is an attempt to collect and list those that I have found so far. The list contains everything from, let's say, "fascinating" HyperCard stacks to shareware and commercial software. As you can see from the many question marks, I don't have all the possible information about all these programs. Please feel free to send additions and corrections to dirk@haun-online.de. Thanks.

Applications

• Family Data by Jeff Sly
  Current version: 0.0.3, released 07. January 1996, Status: Freeware, supports GEDCOM import and export, Language: English
  Website and Download: http://members.aol.com/slyjeff/famdata.html



• Family Heritage File by Starcom Microsystems
  Current version: 3.1c, released 1993, Status: commercial (price unknown), demo available, does not seem to support GEDCOM, Language: English
  Website: ???, Download: ftp.cac.psu.edu
  
  
• Gene by Diana and David Eppstein
  Current version: 4.3.4, released April 2001, Status: Shareware (no restrictions), price: $15, GEDCOM import and export, Language: English
  Website and Download: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/gene/
  
  
• Genealogy Pro by Micro Evolution Technologies, Peter Ferrett
  Current version: 3.00 Beta3, released 1997, Status unknown, GEDCOM import and export, Language: English
  Website: ???, Download: www.shareware.com
  
  
• Genealogy Pro for MacOS X by Peter Ferrett
  Current version: Beta 1, version 1.0, release 14. April 2002, Status: Freeware, GEDCOM support, Language: English
  Website and download: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~luthier/Genealogy_Pro/geneal_web_main.html
  
  
• Grand-Ma told me aka Grand-Mere disait by M. Michel Bernard
  Current versions: 2.1.8 / 2.2.0beta, released April 1997, Shareware (no restrictions), price: $10 / FF 50, no GEDCOM support, Languages: English and French
  Website: ???, Download: ???
  
  
• Heritage by TAG Software, Thomas A. Grandine
  Current version: 3.11, released 30. August 1997, Status: Shareware (restricted to 40 data records), price $15, GEDCOM import and export, Language: English, localised German version available
  Website & download: http://www.eskimo.com/~grandine/heritage.html
  
  
• MacRoots / MacRoots II by Itasca Softworks, Bruce W. Muckala
  Current version: 6.1.2(?) for MacRoots, 2.0(?) for MacRoots II, Status: the original version was distributed as shareware ($40), MacRoots II is commercial software (price unknown). A save-disabled demo version of MacRoots II is available. Supports GEDCOM import and export, Language: English.
  Note: version 6.1.2 does not work with recent MacOS versions.
  Website: ???, Download: MacUser Software Archive (MacRoots) / ftp.cac.psu.edu (MacRoots II Demo)
  
  
• MacStammbaum by Stefan Sicurella
  Current version: 1.9.4, released January 2000, Status: Shareware (save-disabled), price 40 DM, GEDCOM import (no export), Language: German
  Website & download: http://www.onlymac.de/
  
  
• Reunion by Leister Productions
  Current version: 6.02, released January 1999, commercial, price: approx. $99 ("Street price"), Demo available (restricted to 35 data records, import/export disabled), GEDCOM import and export, Language: English
  Website & download der Demo: http://www.LeisterPro.com
  

HyperCard stacks

• Family Record by Yasuhiro Nakatsuka
  Current version: 1.0, Status: Shareware (no restrictions), price $7, no GEDCOM support, Language: English
  Website: ???, Download: ftp.cac.psu.edu
  
  
• GenTree by Mats-Olof Sander
  Current version: 2.0b8, released 03. November 1994, Shareware (no restrictions), price: 100 Swedish Crowns, no GEDCOM support, Language: Swedish
  Website: none, Download: ftp.cac.psu.edu
  
  
• Heartwood by HeartWood Software
  Current version: 3.0, released November 1997, Status: Shareware (no restrictions?), price: $35, no GEDCOM support, Language: English
  Website: ???, Download: Version 2 is available on ftp.cac.psu.edu, but I don't have a current link for version 3
  
  
• Our Family Tree by Timmy G. Bremer
  Current version: 1.3, released 1993, Status: Shareware, price: $10, kein GEDCOM-Support, Language: English
  Website: ???, Download: ftp.cac.psu.edu
  

Helper applications

There's a huge amount of Genealogy helper applications available, so I just list a few of them here:

• GEDitCOM by John A. Nairn
  This program lets you display and edit GEDCOM files. Status: Shareware (GEDCOM files restricted to 20 persons), price: $50, Language: English
  Website & download: http://www.mse.utah.edu/~nairn/geditcom.html
  
  
• Family History Composer by Cygnal Software, Paul R. Swan
  This program creates a textual representation of the contents of a GEDCOM file (in English) and saves it as an RTF. Status: commercial, Demo version available (restricted to two generations), price unknown, Language: English
  Website: ???, Download: ftp.cac.psu.edu
  
  
• GEDCOM Families by Itasca Softworks, Bruce W. Muckala
  This program creates a list of the persons and their relationship from a GEDCOM file and saves it as a plain text file. Status: Freeware, Language: English
  Website: ???, Download: ftp.cac.psu.edu
  

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