Genea is a genealogical application designed for handling large amounts of data. This page gives a glance at Genea's functionality and provides links to the relevant documentation. You can use this page to decide if Genea meets your needs.
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Genea can be used in two different ways.
According to the two ways of using Genea, there are two ways of entering data. Both ways can, of course, be combined as needed.
Individuals will probably prefer this [[Person|dialog for entering the data of a person. It offers fields for the most widely used fields in genealogy and also provides mechanisms for entering the person's course of life. This dialog is ideally for entering relatively recent data, because it will be (nearly) completely available.
Organisations will prefer seperate dialogs for individual events, because old and large data is mostly recorded grouped by event -- such as books with records of births, marriages and deaths, etc. This way of entering data is maily used to digitalize pre-recorded data.
Another possibility is to import data from Gedcom files to the database, or just to make it temporary available. Of course, you can also export data which you have already entered.
This functionalities are combined in the Input-Assistance which is used to display scanned images for convenient data input. These images can also be stored with the entered data for archival purposes.
Genea also provides other means of assistance, like auto-correcting the capitalization of names and interpretation of them.
The main functionality of Genea are of course the family trees. These can be automatically created from the entered data.
Alternatively, you can load a family tree from a Gedcom file.
After that, you can edit your family tree: moving boxes, changing colors, highlighting, removing and adding persons.
Genea provides various menas of processing a family tree.
You can Print a Family Tree on a regular-size printer. It will be sliced into pieces that can be printed and assembled to a large paper-family-tree.
You can also create an image file from your family tree which you can embed in websites, send by mail, etc.
Additionally, you can save the family tree as a Gedcom file, which can then be used to share your data with other people and between genealogical applications.
If you want to try Genea, you can download it for free and use it without any restrictions
