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November 21, 2005 -- The trial version of the CemEditor is fully functional and is only limited to 20 entries.
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CemEditor2 Released
October 7, 2005 -- CemEditor2, cemetery transcription software, major upgrade. Add this Cemetery Information Management software to your family tree and genealogy software collection. The CemEditor2 software easily organizes and manages cemetery photos and transcriptions into a searchable database. It allows entry of the inscription information contained on the monuments to be entered into the database. The CemEditor includes features to publish information on CD*. Additional utilities which can be purchased separately will create web pages, books, and books with pictures.


a relationship among each of them on the basis of their most important, secondary and even based on any evidence related to circumstantial bonding in order to build a complete family tree. Thus, it is easy to see why is considered to be the same as a family history, though family trees are based on relationships, while family history is based on sorting out the lives as well as personal histories of those whom you may know immediately.

Collects Oral Versions And Stories Related To The Family

A person that studies is known as a genealogist and who is a person or persons that will collect histories including oral versions and even stories related to the family so that it is possible to learn about the ancestry as also about those relatives that are still living. In addition, a person that studies will also find it relevant to know more than just the where as well as when of relatives, but also their lifestyles, motivations and also biographies which may need having some special knowledge including those related to antiquated laws, trends of immigration, political boundaries from yore, and also social conditions throughout history.

That is why has of late (since the seventies) become very popular as witnessed by the immensely popular TV series Roots that was an adaptation of a family line based on the book written by Alex Haley who traced his own family lineage therein. Now that the Internet has become a way of life, there are many more resources available to us in finding out all about the past, though genealogists still understand the need to tread these paths with caution so as to not end up with inaccuracies in the family trees.

Genealogy can also lead to research being conducted on things such as relationships between people including those such as kinship to particular groups as is best exemplified in a Scottish clan, or it may requires studying certain surnames, or even studying tiny communities such as village or parishes, or it could even involve a single personality such as Abraham Lincoln or even Muhammad Ali.

Even DNA can help reveal information about the ancestry of a person and in fact, today DNA analysis is a major factor when it comes to studying in depth. And, there is also some software that has become available that is helping in this very interesting subject, and with Internet availability, it can prove to be even more effective.

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