Ahnenblatt is a
genealogy software
Genealogy software is computer software used to record, organize, and publish genealogical
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application for
Microsoft Windows developed by German programmer Dirk Böttcher. It features data entry, plausibility check and creation of charts and reports. The software imports and exports
GEDCOM
GEDCOM ( ), complete name FamilySearch GEDCOM, is a ''de facto'' open file format specification to store genealogical data, and import or export it between compatible genealogy software. GEDCOM is an acronym standing for ''Genealogical Data Comm ...
files and exports Web pages.
The name of the software is
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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and literally means "ancestor sheet".
[Free Family Tree Software Review: Ahnenblatt]
– Genealogical MusingsWhy is it called "Ahnenblatt"?
– ahnenblatt.com
History
The Beginning (2001–2008)
Ahnenblatt started 2001 as a free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
and was available on a webpage in German language only.[Programmhistorie (German language)]
– ahnenblatt.de
There are also portable versions to use Ahnenblatt from a USB stick.
Internationalization (2008–2019)
With release 2.50 Ahnenblatt began to be multi-lingual. Since then Ahnenblatt is available in 24 languages.
At the same time a branded free version of Ahnenblatt called "It's Our Tree Home Edition"[It’s Our Tree Home Edition 1.0]
– TechCrunch was published for genealogy network verwandt.de[Geni Clone Growing A Lot Faster Than Geni]
– Modern Software Experience by OSN GmbH. This branded version of Ahnenblatt was given up in 2010 when OSN was acquired by MyHeritage.[MyHeritage.com Acquires Major Family Network OSN (Verwandt.de) to Accelerate Building the World’s Family Graph]
– businesswire[MyHeritage Buys Germany's OSN, Now 540 Million Profiles Strong]
– techcrunch
With version 2.99 Ahnenblatt integrated internet search at online genealogy platform MyHeritage.[Ahnenblatt fügt MyHeritage-Matching-Technologien hinzu (German language)]
– MyHeritageBlog
Commercial (since 2019)
While free software Ahnenblatt 2.99 is still available, in March 2019 a commercial version 3 was released with extended data features[3.0 final to be released]
– Ahnenblattportal
See also
* Comparison of genealogy software
* List of portable software
For the purposes of this list, a portable application is software that can be used from portable storage devices such as USB flash drives, digital audio players, PDAs or external hard drives. To be considered for inclusion, an application must ...
References
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