Genbox Family History is genealogy software

Genealogy software

Genealogy software is computer software used to record, organize, and publish genealogical data. At a minimum, genealogy software collects the date and place of an individual's birth, marriage, and death, and stores the relationships of individuals to their parents, spouses, and children...

 for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, developed by Thoughtful Creations. It functions as a database, a research planner and task organizer, a data analyzer, a chart producer, and a report writer.

Features

Genbox has evolved since its first release in 1993 as a DOS family tree charting application. It is now a complete genealogy software package, with project organisation features, support for data and media storage, source citations, and the production of complex and customizable charts and reports.

Some of its features include:

• Support for complex relationships among individuals, events, dates, places, and source citations: multiple personal names and identifiers, optionally linked to defining events, can be stored for individuals. Accurate relationships between each child and any number or type (biological, adoptive, foster, step, etc.) of parents can be stored. Any number of event types, attributes, and flags can be defined. Witnesses to events can be recorded, along with their roles.
• An unlimited number of event types and source types are supported with a sophisticated, multi-language template system. Event sentences and citation formats can be customized by the user.
• Reports can be generated in rtf and HTML format.
• Multimedia support for images, audio, and video
• Full Unicode
  Unicode
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   support, GEDCOM
  GEDCOM
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   import and export.

History

Genbox version 1.0 was originally released in 1992 as a DOS

DOS

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-based charting application.

Genbox version 2.0 was released in 1994.

Work began on the Windows version of Genbox Family History in August 1998

Windows release history

• Genbox 3.0: Feb 02, 2003. Included support for multiple names and parent relationships, witnesses, templates for event and source citations.
• Genbox 3.1.5: Oct 18, 2003
• Genbox 3.2: Jun 20, 2004
• Genbox 3.3: Oct 23, 2004
• Genbox 3.4: Apr 30, 2005
• Genbox 3.5: Jul 9, 2005
• Genbox 3.6: Oct 2, 2005
• Genbox 3.7: Feb 3, 2007
• Genbox 3.7.1: Nov 16, 2007

File format

Genbox's underlying database engine is stored using the Microsoft Jet Database Engine

Microsoft Jet Database Engine

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: the Genbox database can be opened in Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access

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• Format and structure of Genbox databases (.GDB) -Last Updated: 3 July 2006 for Version 3.6.5