Brother's Keeper (software)
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Brother's Keeper is a
genealogy software Genealogy software is computer software used to record, organize, and publish genealogical Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, g ...
program for
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. The program functions as a database, a research planner and task organizer, a data analyzer, a chart producer, and a report writer. The software enables export and import in the
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 ...
specification for exchanging genealogical data. Brother's Keeper used Btrieve as the underlying database engine before version 7. Brother's Keeper has an email list for user support.BK mailing list
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Languages

Brother's Keeper is available in the following languages: English, Norwegian, French (Canadian), French (Belgium), German, Danish, Icelandic and Czech, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Estonian, Slovenian, Slovak, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Afrikaans.


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External links

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Brother's Keeper
DOS Version 5.2B

Windows Version 5.2G

Windows Version 6.6

Windows Version 7
Brother's Keeper Forum on genealogy.com
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