Ahnenblatt

Ahnenblatt is a genealogy software to create family trees, pedigree charts and ahnentafels. Genealogic data is stored in a proprietary file format, that can be exported to other formats,^[1][2] e.g. GEDCOM.

The name is German and literally means "ancestor sheet".

Features

• Graphical trees – generate family trees (descendant trees) and ancestor trees
• Lists – Ancestor list, Descendant list, Family list, Birthday list, Person Sheet
• Unicode capable – supports international characters
• Auto-completion function for input fields
• Navigator – click through your ancestors
• GEDCOM support – import and export in GEDCOM format
• Multiple export formats – html, xml, csv, tiny tafel; – save reports as Word document, rtf file; save family trees and statistics as bitmap, jpeg, png
• Plausibility check – find mistakes in the data
• Portable application – runs from USB drive without installation (Portableapps and U3 stick support)
• Plug-in support – external genealogy applications that can be integrated into Ahnenblatt. Examples of plug-ins:
  • Google-Earth plug-in: Locates ancestors in Google Earth
  • Calendar-Output plug-in: Export of birthdays into .ics calendar format
  • Place-Name-List plug-in: Creates a list locations by different criteria like places of birth, places of marriage, places of death, etc.
  • Add-Source-Information plug-in: Adds a common source to all person entries
  • Rename-Pictures plug-in: Renames and sorts all pictures in the format: name_first-name_birth-date_count_extension
  • Island-Finder plug-in: Finds groups of people which have no relation to other groups (only in German)
  • Lebenszeit plug-in: Generates customizable Lifespan Graph of persons into an HTML table (only in German)

Languages

Ahnenblatt is available in the following languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

External links

• (English) Ahnenblatt Support – support for Ahnenblatt
• (German) Ahnenblatt Plug-In's – multilingual extensions for Ahnenblatt

1. ↑ Ahnenblatt - Freeware zur Ahnenforschung
2. ↑ python-ahn - Python binding for Data Becker's Familienchronik and Dirk Böttcher's Ahnenblatt family trees - Google Project Hosting