Classic Computer Magazine Archive COMPUTE! ISSUE 123 / NOVEMBER 1990 / PAGE G-12

Tree Tracing Revisted

In the June "Letters" column of Gazette, we asked readers to help Roy N. Kelley of Hamilton, Ohio, locate genealogy programs for his 64/128. Dozens of people wrote, and here are some of their suggstions.

Byteware, 906 West 6th Avenue, Monmouth, Illinois 61462, has shareware, FGS and PED C, $21.95, that produces family group sheets and pedigree sheets. I have been using the original for two years, and I like it very much. An improved version is also available.

J. M. KINABREW JR.
NEW ORLEANS, LA

The following companies provide 64 and 128 genealogy software of various degrees of sophistication and pricing: Traces, P.O. Box 168, Center, Missouri 63436; PFA, 8600 Old Spanish Trail #79, Tucson, Arizona 85710; and Quinsept, P.O. Box 216, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173.

I have used Traces' program for recording census data, and it generally works well. I use Jenny II, the Genealogist, from Basic Fundamentals, 3366 South 2300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84109, $19.95, regularly to update my family files.

JAMES H. HOOD
SALT LAKE CITY, UT

COMPUTE!'s Third Book of Commodore 64 provided a program titled Family Tree on pages 82-92. It provided for disk and printer output.

HARRY L. ADAIR
LAS VEGAS, NV

Try Remsoft, P.O. Box 2249, Camarillo, California 93011-2249. You get a lifetime membership, a disk full of software, and a catalog for $7.98. It's all worth it. Disk number 5066 has a program called Family Tree for $4.00 and $2.00 for postage.

PAUL DUBEY
ATHOL, MA

Here are several outlets for genealogy programs: Family Roots (64 and 128 versions), Quinsept, P.O. Box 216, Lexington, Massachusetts 02173, $185.00; Your Ancestors, Ken Barber, 5785 Brickyard Road, Tillamock, Oregon 97141, $10.00; Family/64, Petrocci Freelance, 651 Houghton Road, Tucson, Arizona 85748, $29.95; Gleaner, Kudzu Software, P.O. Box 993, Morrow, Georgia 30260, $19.95; Your Family Tree, Hurdware, P.O. Box 241746, Memphis, Tennessee
38124, $44.95.

ROBERT D. YATES
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA

QuantumLink's Your Family Tree has several genealogy programs available for downloading. Also try the Roots board on CompuServe and the Genealogy board on GEnie.

M. R. PLECHATY
SARATOGA, CA

I have been using a program for several years now on my 128 in 128 mode. It is Family Tree and can be obtained from Briwall, P.O. Box 129/58 Noble Street, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530.

R. A. CARTER
NORTH BAY. ONT., CANADA

Sandy and Don Ritzinger of Software Solutions, 7378 Zurawski Court, Custer, Wisconsin 54423, have created Arbor-Aid, which is easy to use and can be adapted to virtually any family recordkeeping system.

BILL HARROP
TAMPA, FL

Software Support International has Family Tree 128/64 Version II. It sells for $36.97, and its catalog number is C00523. The address is 2700 NE Andersen Road, Suite A-10, Vancouver, Washington 98661.

MARK VAVRA
MILLIGAN, NE

The only ones I have found are from QS! Alliance, 5846 Highway 111 South, New Albany, Indiana 47150. Its disk number X007 contains programs for both the 128 and 64. Disk number B018 contains one for the 64.

WILLIAM EVANS
GOWER, MO