For MS Windows: (Ranked according to popularity with GCG members)

Program name	Current  Version (red if new)	Publisher	Free trial?	User Group, Mailing list, additional options	NZ User Group contact
FTM . (Family Tree Maker)	2010	Ancestry.com		Discussion List
Legacy	7.4 standard	Millennia	Yes	http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp	Jan Gow
PAF (Personal Ancestral File)	5.2.18.0	L.D.S.	Yes	PAF Companion (Optional extra Reports)	Ted Davidson
Brothers Keeper	6.3.39	Brothers Keeper		mailto: BK-L@Rootsweb.com
TMG (The Master Genealogist)	7	Wholly Genes	Yes	Guided Tour   Second Site 2 (web building utility)
RootsMagic	4	Rootsmagic Inc.	Yes	Email User Group
Ancestral Quest,	12.1	Incline Software	Yes	FAQs
Legacy Deluxe Edition	7.4	Millenia		http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html	Jan Gow
Relatively Yours	3.3.4085	Computability Pty. Ltd.	Yes	Discussion Group on Yahoo
Family Historian	4.1	Calicoe Pie, UK	Yes	User Group & Mailing List
Family Atlas	1.0.5	Rootsmagic

 For Macintosh (Mac OS X)  (* = Snow Leopard compatible)    see also macgenealogist for comparisons

Program name	Current version	* Snow Leopard	Publisher / author	Free Trial?	Additional information
iFamily for Leopard	2.511	*	Kevin Wilson	Yes	An amazing genealogy program for Mac users.  Free trial download. User Forums.  Supports integrated Google Maps & easy web-page creation.
ReUnion	9.0b	*	Leister Productions	Yes	http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/Users.html    Dick Eastman's comments
Heredis	Mac X.2		BSD Concept	Yes	Rated by Dick Eastman Review by Jeffery Battersby
MacFamily Tree	5.7.7	*	Synium Software		Forum There is also a Beta of Version 6
Genealogy Pro	2.2		Genealogy Pro	Yes	for storing family relationships and drawing family trees, with an inbuilt database
GEDitCOM II	v1.4	*	John Nairn	Yes	Customizable application for editing and viewing GEDCOM files, and creating web sites.
OSK	4.71		Studlar Software	Yes
PAWriter II	PAW2U92		Howard Metcalfe	Free	Personal Ancestry Writer II Version 92 for Macintosh

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TNG- The Next Generation

NEW 8.0.0

Darrin Lythgoe

The Next Generation of Genealogy SitebuildingŠ ("TNG") is a way to manage and display your genealogy data on the Internet, without generating HTML. Instead, your information is stored in MySQL database tables

Note: Every effort is made to keep this data current, but if you have more recent information, or can advise of an active forum,  please contact the webmanager

Note2: The GCG does not endorse or recommend any particular program. Detailed descriptions and ratings of the facilities provided by programs/versions are available at Bill Mumford's "Genealogical Software Report Card" (but last updated in March 2005).

Updated July 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . .   . .