Ahnenblatt is a

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developed by German programmer Dirk Böttcher. It features data entry, plausibility check and creation of charts and reports. The software imports and exports

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files and exports Web pages. The name of the software is

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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

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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.deGeni Clone Growing A Lot Faster Than Geni
– Modern Software Experience by OSN

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. This branded version of Ahnenblatt was given up in 2010 when OSN was acquired by

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.MyHeritage.com Acquires Major Family Network OSN (Verwandt.de) to Accelerate Building the World’s Family Graph
– businesswireMyHeritage 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 features3.0 final to be released
– Ahnenblattportal

References

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History

The Beginning (2001–2008)

Internationalization (2008–2019)

Commercial (since 2019)

See also

References