Article 952 of comp.sys.amiga.announce: Path: news.csos.orst.edu!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!megalith!NOT-FOR-MAIL Reply-To: dsears@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Douglas Sears) Message-Number: 753 Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc Distribution: world Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce Approved: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dsears@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Douglas Sears) Subject: Origins II v2.00 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 04:09:17 EST Lines: 128 TITLE Origins II VERSION 2.00 DESCRIPTION Origins is a dedicated data base for keeping track of genealogical information. It will support databases of over 6 million individuals. The user interface is designed to be both easy to use and very powerful. Origins will correctly handle multiple marriages, step-children, unmarried parents, and other difficult situations that some programs refuse to allow. Origins lists Persons, Marriages, Parent/Child Index, Ahnentafel, and Soundex. Generates reports on Persons, Family Group sheets, Pedigree Chart, Descendants Charts, and Tiny-Tafel. Features include: * Automatically call your ARexx compatible editor to create Source and Note files. These files may also be written and displayed in hypertext format. * Search on any combination of fields or by Soundex codes. * Context-sensitive hypertext help is built in. * Support for IFF files. Pictures of individuals, marriages, baptisms, and family groups may be displayed instantly. * Import and export data between Origins and other genealogical programs using the GEDCOM file format. * Generate Tiny-Tafel listings to help you find others researching the same family. * Many useful ARexx functions are included. NEW FEATURES Additions and improvements to Origins II include: * Simplified installation for floppy users. * Full localization support displays all information in your language. English and German are available now, with French, Italian, and Spanish planned. * The graphical interface is now laid out dynamically, relative to your system overscan preferences. * AmigaDOS style pattern matching is now implemented in searches. This enables you to do all kinds of fancy searches through your data. * Online help has been expanded to include virtually all gadgets and menu items. * Report Pedigree now prints multi-page pedigrees with continuation to other pedigree charts. * The Report Descendancy Chart function now prints as many generations as it can find in the data base. * A second type of Descendant Report in the general style of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register format has been added. This produces very nice looking reports that you will want to share with your family. * Scrolling ListViews are now used for all Multi-Requester functions. These include Multi-Family, Multi-Child, and Multi-Marriage. * Two new date formats have been added. You may now specify events as happening on, before or after a certain year. * Macro Keys have been added, allowing you to define, load, and save macro keys for use in all of the other functions. * Record caching has been added. The access times for all complex functions, but especially sorts, are much faster! SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Origins requires V2.0 or later of the Amiga OS, at least 1 megabyte of ram and 2 floppy drives minimum configuration. PRICE Suggested retail price: US$85 COMPANY The Puzzle Factory, Inc. Voice: 503-935-3709, 1-800-828-9952 (orders) P.O. Box 986 BBS: 503-935-7883 Veneta, OR 97487 BIX: jblavin USA Internet: jlavin@cie-2.uoregon.edu In Europe contact: Helios Software Voice: (623) 554828 163 Huthwaite Road Sutton-in-Ashfield Notts. NG17 2HB U.K. AUTHOR Jeff Lavin DISTRIBUTABILITY Commercial software. Copyright 1994 The Puzzle Factory, Inc. SUBMITTED BY Doug Sears (dsears@cie-2.uoregon.edu). I work with The Puzzle Factory, and submitted this at their request. -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu.