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- Copyright (c) 1994, Louis Turbeville
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- Kith and Kin
- Genealogy - Windows 3.1 Shareware Program
- Nick J Hunter
- 11 Morlich Park
- Dalgety Bay
- DUNFERMLINE
- Fife KY11 5XW Scotland
- Internet: nick.hunter@almac.co.uk
- Registration Fee: $40.00
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- At some point in our live, we wonder exactly who are ancestors.
- Most of us don't take the time or energy to track down the important
- information and record it in an easy to use manner. Kith & Kin, a genealogy
- program, is an intuitive and powerful tool that can take some of the monotony
- out of the data entry portion of the task. It allows you to store vital
- tidbits of information in a multimedia format, which gives your history more
- life than just writing down the information, like a special song, pictures of
- family members or wedding vows.
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- Kith & Kin can be used by the occasional or dedicated genealogy data gatherer.
- Data entry is easy. If you are a novice then determining what information to
- enter is easy. You chose whether to enter data for an individual or a family
- and it prompts you with a form to fill. By filling in the form, you will have
- all the vital information you need. The program is intuitive, even for a
- beginner in genealogy.
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- With its graphical layout, determining and viewing relationships is a snap.
- The family tree is easy to edit and configure to your viewing pleasure. No
- matter how you display your family tree, Kith & Kin keeps all relationships
- in tact.
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- I feel the most useful feature is the ability to embed or link objects to a
- person or family group. Objects may be notes, sounds, diagrams or pictures.
- This gives a real multimedia feel to the program and your family history.
- Inserting sounds or music from an event, like a wedding, adds more meaning to
- the final product, more so than just writing down what was said or played.
- Seeing a picture of your ancestors and the way they lived will have more
- meaning then just plain text, as with most genealogy programs.
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- Kith and Kin allows you to print all of your work. You could produce a book of
- family ancestors to hand out to family members without computers, complete
- with maps and diagrams. The program also has file support for the Personal
- Ancestral File GEDCOM format. Using this format (a standard) will allow you
- to work closely with other family members around the world.
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- Kith and Kin is a powerful and very easy to use genealogy software for Windows
- 3.1. Kith and Kin is easy enough for the beginner and casual data collector,
- yet has enough bells and whistles to set it apart from other programs. It
- will make your work seem like the fun it should be. If you have been thinking
- of starting up a genealogy program of your family, then this program is
- definitely worth the download.
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