GenoPro Releases All-New Genealogy Software
GenoPro® 2007 - New software for drawing family trees and
genograms. Anyone getting started in genealogy can create and
print family trees in minutes.
Boston - GenoPro (https://www.genopro.com),
the leading provider of family tree drawing software,
announced today the immediate availability of GenoPro® 2007. The
latest release of the world renowned genealogy software offers a
completely new user interface for creating family trees and genograms,
and it is being heralded by the company as being the single biggest and
most significant release in GenoPro's 9-year history.
GenoPro is a specialized tool for drawing family trees and
genograms. GenoPro's intuitive graphical user interface
quickly produces professional-looking pedigree family trees ready for
printing or for pasting to any presentation software. GenoPro is
not limited to genealogy; it can visually document an entire community
with
emotional relationships and social connections among people.
Until now, no software was able to illustrate a complete family tree,
not to mention drawing complex scenarios based on today's reconstructed
families. Other genealogy software cannot record object position,
size and color, and therefore cannot offer the flexibility to create
your own family tree layout. The strength of GenoPro is that you
can have family branches in any direction, so you are not limited to
either direct descendants or direct ancestors as in other genealogy
software. GenoPro is also the only genealogy software using color
to draw family trees. With GenoPro, you can use 13 color
attributes to define anything you want such as family diseases,
education level, ethnicity, religion and political affiliations.
GenoPro 2007 is not limited to drawing fancy family trees; it offers
the flexibility to enter as many details as you wish, including
education history, occupations, contacts, places, pictures, sources
and citations. GenoPro 2007 is intelligent, as it avoids
redundant data, and it also features a built-in auto-complete
function to speed up typing and reduce typos. With a few mouse
clicks, you can generate a report of your family tree for further
review or for sharing with others on the Web. GenoPro has a
built-in publisher for uploading reports with pictures on the
Internet via the FTP protocol or via web services.
GenoPro can display data just like traditional genealogy software.
However, GenoPro's spreadsheet is unique; it includes hyperlinks to
navigate between any objects, from parents to children to siblings,
or across pictures, places, sources and citations. GenoPro's
spreadsheet allows various functions, including in-place editing,
bulk-editing, finding and replacing, data sorting, copying and
pasting with other commercial spreadsheet applications, and of
course, unlimited use of the undo/redo function for every operation.
GenoPro 2007 uses the XML format to store all its data, allowing
third party applications to generate, edit or analyze the files it
produces. In the research community, GenoPro is often used for
drawing pedigrees from data generated by scripts. GenoPro has
a built-in AutoArrange feature capable of generating a pedigree tree
if no layout is provided in the XML data. For instance, this feature
is a great time saver for displaying medical pedigrees of genetic
diseases from a database or from a rudimentary linkage file. GenoPro
also uses its AutoArrange when importing Gedcom files from other
genealogy software producing a graphical tree from a list of names.
GenoPro is equipped with an impressive
report
generator, capable of generating rich HTML pages linked to
interactive SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) family trees. Every
installation of GenoPro includes the full source code for each
built-in report. With one mouse click, you can start customizing any
report you wish. You will not need to learn another
programming language to customize or to create a new
report; GenoPro's report generator uses popular scripting languages
such as VBScript and JavaScript. GenoPro sports built-in
ASP
objects and many additional objects making it easy to generate
elaborate reports. GenoPro can also load third-party COM
modules made in other programming languages such C++, C#, VB.NET or
Java and/or connect to external databases such as Microsoft SQL,
MySQL, or Oracle to fetch additional data for generating a report.
The raw power of GenoPro's report generator marks the birth of a new
era of genealogy computing.
On a technical note, GenoPro 2007 is a masterpiece of technology
that delivers exclusive benefits to the end user. Its internal
architecture is unique, by having its own object-oriented database
engine designed to foster object inheritance and circular
references. Object inheritance is the key for avoiding
redundant data, which in turn eliminates inconsistencies, and
reduces typing and memory storage. The greatest benefit of
inheritance is providing a hierarchy for classifying data, such as
grouping places by country, state, city and buildings. A
building, such as a hospital or cemetery may further be divided into
rooms and lots for finer data granularity. Since places are
objects, the user can enter minute details, from street addresses
and pictures, to latitude and longitude for GPS positioning. Any
place deriving from a parent place will inherit its parent's values,
unless overwritten. GenoPro's report generator understands
object hierarchy and its generated reports give the user the option
to expand each node to view details. Also, the report
generator displays Geo Mapping in the Google Map for every place
defined by a city name or a GPS position. Circular referencing
is very common in genealogy, such as displaying a picture for a
place, and linking this place to its original picture.
Commercial databases cannot handle circular references, or if such a
catastrophic scenario happens, the data is in a deadlock and cannot
be deleted. Object inheritance is nearly impossible for
standard databases to achieve without writing massive bug-prone code
requiring excessive processing, thus rendering the entire
application extremely slow and unusable for large amounts of data.
GenoPro 2007 is the product of five years of development which included
20 major betas. GenoPro 2007 features so many improvements that it
would be impossible to list them all. Among the biggest traits, GenoPro 2007
has attained full support of Unicode, allowing the user to enter text in any
language, and to perform searches and sorting according to the linguistic
rules of each language. Unicode is important for accuracy in genealogy
research, as users tracing their family roots often find ancestors and
relatives living in various countries who have family names spelled with
non-English characters.
Another novelty of GenoPro 2007 is the ability to split a large
family tree into many sub-trees and to hyperlink them together.
With only two mouse clicks, the user can move an entire branch to
another sheet. GenoPro takes care of the rest, by creating the
necessary hyperlinks to connect the trees. The benefits of
supporting multiple sub trees cannot be understated, as it is the
cornerstone of scaling large family trees containing tens of
thousands of individuals. Without the ability to split a large
tree into smaller sub trees, it becomes very difficult to organize
information or to create layouts suitable for printing.
Printing a family tree can be done on a normal printer where the
family tree is spitted into multiple sheets and you glue the sheets
together. If you have a family reunion and wish to create a
wall chart, you can send your print job directly to the print shop
over the Internet. Without leaving your desk, you can print a
color poster, say 4' (91.5 by 121.9 cm), for less than $20.
Most genealogy titles have room for a few user-defined tags; GenoPro
2007 allows a full range of tags. For instance, you may want
to trace the genealogy of a family having a genetic disease. In this
case, you would use the user-defined fields to store information
about the disease, diagnosis and lab results. In another case, you
may want to record the performances of each athlete in a hockey team
recording the statistics for each season. In a family having a
strong military service, you may want to enter the military grade
and other relevant military details. Likewise, you may wish to
record the photographer name and camera model used for a picture, or
record the name of the landlord and the property value of a
building. There will always be an additional piece of information
you will need to enter, regardless how many pre-defined data fields
are available. Unlimited custom data fields allow for full
flexibility.
GenoPro 2007 includes many other features, such as
medical pedigrees,
statistics, bookmarks, online backups, sending genealogy files to
other users and converting Gedcom files to HTML.
Upgrading to GenoPro 2007 is analogous to upgrading from DOS to
Windows XP. Really.
Pricing and Availability
GenoPro 2007 is now available for a
free
trial download, or for
purchase at the GenoPro online shop. GenoPro 2007 is offered at the
price of $49 for a single-user license, and significant volume discounts
are available when purchasing multiple licenses. For more
information about enterprise licensing and custom integration, or for
any questions about purchasing GenoPro 2007, send an email to
sales@genopro.com or call our
toll-free number 1-877-GENOPRO.
Try GenoPro Today
Downloading and installing GenoPro 2007 is quick and easy. Click
on the link
https://genopro.com/InstallGenoPro.exe and select Run.
You can create your family tree within minutes.
About GenoPro
GenoPro® is the world's most popular software for drawing family trees
and genograms, and is used by genealogists, therapists, social workers,
health professionals and researchers. GenoPro is also used as
educational tool for teaching the genogram, having students from 1,300
colleges and universities in the America alone.
The first release of GenoPro was launched in 1998 as a freeware and was
an immediate success despite its limited capabilities. A year
later, GenoPro was downloaded 33,000 times solely from
Download.com to
become the
most popular genealogy download of the year, a title it still holds
today. Responding to growth, the business model changed from
freeware to shareware in 2000. Since then, GenoPro sold copies to
users and corporations in 160 countries around the world.
GenoPro development does not end here. In the coming year, GenoPro
will not only be available in multiple languages, but will offer a
collaboration system for multiple users to share and edit documents over
the web via a secure connection. Future improvements for macros
and plugins are also scheduled next.
For more information, contact:
Daniel Morin
Business Development Director
daniel@genopro.com
1-877-GENOPRO (1-877-436-6776)
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