Ahnenblatt

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Ahnenblatt

Ahnenblatt Navigator
Developer(s)	Dirk Böttcher
Stable release	2.68 / October 6, 2011; 3 months ago (2011-10-06)
Platform	Windows
Available in	Multilingual (19)
Type	Genealogy Software
License	Freeware
Website	ahnenblatt.com

Ahnenblatt is a genealogy software to create family trees, pedigree charts and ahnentafels. Genealogic data is stored in a proprietary file format, that can be exported to other formats ^{[1] [2]}, e.g. GEDCOM.

Features

• Graphical trees - generate family trees (descendant trees) and ancestor trees
• Lists - Ancestor list, Descendant list, Family list, Birthday list, Person Sheet
• Unicode capable - supports international characters
• Auto-completion function for input fields
• Navigator - click through your ancestors
• GEDCOM support - import and export in GEDCOM format
• Multiple export formats - html, xml, csv, tiny tafel; - save reports as Word document, rtf file; save family trees and statistics as bitmap, jpeg, png
• Plausibility check - find mistakes in the data
• Portable application - runs from USB drive without installation (Portableapps and U3 stick support)
• Plug-In support - external genealogy applications that can be integrated into Ahnenblatt. Examples of Plug-ins:
  • Google-Earth Plug-In: Locates ancestors in Google-Earth
  • Calendar-Output Plug-In: Export of birthdays into .ics calendar format
  • Place-Name-List Plug-In: Creates a list locations by different criteria like places of birth, places of marriage, places of dead, etc
  • Add-Source-Information Plug-In: Adds a common source to all person entries
  • Rename-Pictures Plug-In: Renames and sorts all pictures in the format: name_first-name_birth-date_count_extension
  • Island-Finder Plug-In: Finds groups of people which have no relation to other groups (only in German)
  • Lebenszeit Plug-In: Generates customizable Lifespan Graph of persons into an HTML table (only in German)

Languages

Ahnenblatt is available in the following languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.

External links

• (English) Ahnenblatt Support –Support for Ahnenblatt
• (German) Ahnenblatt Plug-In's -multilingual extensions for Ahnenblatt

1. ^ http://www.ahnenblatt.de/abinfo.htm
2. ^ http://python-ahn.googlecode.com/