Pronunciation:
[ee-vent
based jee-nee-ol-uh-jee soft-wair] •
(noun)
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Genealogy Software
Definition:
Event-based genealogy software links individuals through common life events.
Each screen in an event-based program is based on an individual. That individual
is linked to others in his family, but the screen contains only information
about that one person including sources, photos and notes. An advantage to this
type of event-based genealogy software program is that most allow an unlimited
number of events for each person. Everything we find about a single person can
be kept on display at one time as a sort of timeline of the individual's life.
The disadvantage to this type of program is that it is harder to work with for
people used to thinking in lineages and doesn't make it easy to tell at a glance
how people are related to one another.
Related Terms
• GEDCOM
• lineage-based
genealogy software
Genealogy software
resources including family tree programs, utility programs, programs to help you
create a genealogy Web page, genealogy software ratings and reviews, how-to's
and tips for the various software programs and free trial downloads of most of
the major programs.
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