LifeLines
LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with family history
research. It maintains genealogical records (persons, families,
sources, events and others) in a database, and generates reports from
those records.
The software has a curses interface, and a built-in
interpreter for its
own genealogical report language.
There are no practical limits on the number of records that
can be stored in a LifeLines database, nor on the amounts or kinds of
data that can be kept in the records.
LifeLines does not contain built-in reports. Instead it
provides a programming subsystem that you use to program your own
reports and charts. The programming subsystem also lets you query your
databases and process your data in any way. LifeLines uses the terminal
independent features to provide a screen and menu based user
interface.
LifeLines records are stored in GEDCOM format; you organize,
edit and maintain your data in this format. GEDCOM is a standard that
defines a file format for moving genealogical data between computer
systems. LifeLines has adopted this format for structuring the records
in its databases.
Features include:
- Information is stored in a GEDCOM format
- Easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format
- LifeLines can easily support databases of over 100,000
individuals with a total size of 30MB
- Powerful scripting language:
- Generate ahnentafels (ancestor tables),
ancestor/descendant reports, groff
formatted ancestor reports, beautiful LaTeX books of all ancestors,
PostScript fans of ancestors, vital records of all individuals in a
format suitable for importing to palm pilot databases
- Internationalization and localization: English
(default), Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, German, French, Polish, Swedish,
and Kinyarwanda are supported
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