GenealogyJ, often called "GenJ," is a very useful GEDCOM utility, written by Nils Meier. GenealogyJ is a viewer and editor for genealogy data stored in GEDCOM files. It works in Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. It will even work on a web server, allowing you to build a viewer program into your genealogy home page. Best of all, GenealogyJ is available free of charge.
You can read my earlier review of GenealogyJ at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/05/genealogyj.html
Now Nils Meier has updated the program. Version 2.4.2 is described as a "major release" with new features and an improved user interface.
Here are the significant changes:
- Appropriate surnames generated automatically
- Double Click is a recognized gesture
- GeoView - mapping events geographically
- EditView/Basic Mode improved speed and usability
- Data: new option to convert last names to uppercase
- Data: children/parents get appropriate surname automatically
- Data: OBJE entities are deprecated and hidden (option)
- User Interface: double click is a recognized gesture
- User Interface: *new* GeoView mapping events geographically
- User Interface: TableView with multiple cell selections
- User Interface: TableView with qUser Interfaceck-access links on the side
- User Interface: EditView/Basic Mode improved speed and usability
- User Interface: Auto-complete refactored for usability
- User Interface: Context-Menu usable throughout
- User Interface: Various adjustments and ease-of-use improvements
- User Interface: Standard Keyboard Shortcuts (ctrl+s, ctrl+w, …)
- User Interface: Option to restore views on reload
- GEDCOM: support for preserving unknown entities on read/write
- GEDCOM: extended support for FAMC (multiple, adoption,…)
- GEDCOM: support for PLACe format
- GEDCOM: support for DATE phrases
- GEDCOM: support for preserving unknown entities on read/write
- Reports: new formatted output infrastructure (HTML,PS,PDF,CSV)
- Reports: new reports
- Languages now supported: Czech, Polish, Russian languages added
You can obtain the free GenealogyJ program at http://genj.sourceforge.net
