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Tool for genealogy research.

Features

Multiple-project approach

GenTle is designed to handle a set of projects. A researcher can work on many projects stored in project depository. Several data can be shared between all project stored in project depository so researcher can enter this data only once and use it in all projects. Following data is considered as shared:

Contacts: Contact information to all researchers is shared and can be referenced from all projects stored in project depository.
Resources: Information about repositories, sources and citations.
Places: Information about places.
Research: Research can be planned for all project in project depository.
Surety Schemes: Surety schemes describe level of information reliability.

Genealogical data

This tool enables:

to enter a large scale of personal data and create records for persons, events, groups of people, families, contacts of person that submitted information, etc.
to create and manage family trees with visual representation on the screen.
to create and visualise relations between persons like marriage, parent -- child relation, etc.
to edit already entered information
automated data creation (e.g. when parent -- child relation is created, a record is created for parent in section "Personal Information" --> "Children"). This feature is configurable.

Find functionality

This tool enables:

finding of persons
finding of events
finding of another data will follow

File saving, loading and exporting

This tool enables:

to store genealogy information into the file on the disc and restore it againg. When storing information, compression of output file can be performed.
to export family tree into a bitmap (via plug-in).
to export content of project to GEDCOM files. GEDCOM 6 XML and GEDCOM 5.5 are supported currently.

Resource management

This tool enables:

to crete arbitrary hierarchical structure of resources
basic roots in this structure are REPOSITORY roots
REPOSITORY roots can contain arbitrary hierarchical structure of SOURCE roots
SOURCES can contain CITATION roots
all information provided by resource management is shared and can be referenced from all projects stored in project depository.
referencing of resources is dynamic; i.e. if you will edit information of resource already referenced, all changes to this resource will be visible in all references.

Places management

This tool enables:

to create description of arbitrary places
to define arbitrary kinds of places, e.g. user can define regions, districts, abbeys, states, etc. With GenTle, it is possible to define continent or event planet or galaxy as a place, if you wish :-).
to define place with a time information, when was the place existing (valid). You can describe a place with its historical evolution using this feature.
to define place as a part of another arbitrary place. E.g. you can define city as a part of state, country, abbey, district, etc.
all information provided by places management is shared and can be referenced from all projects stored in project depository.
all this features are possibility, not a must. To use place management, you need to define just a name of a place and you can reference it from other places of GenTle.
referencing of places is dynamic; i.e. if you will edit information of place already referenced, all changes to this place will be visible in all references.

Research management

This tool enables:

to plan further genealogical research.
to specify RESEARCH OBJECTIVES per project. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES describes research goals for project.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES can be defined for each RESEARCH OBJECTIVE. This RESEARCH ACTIVITIES describe activities that must be finished to complete RESEARCH OBJECTIVE.
to make a time plan for genealogical research
to plan genealogical research according to priority and status of each OBJECTIVE or ACTIVITY.
to assign research tasks to a researcher. A researcher can view all tasks assigned to him.
research management is shared and research tasks can be planned for all projects stored in project depository.

Surety schemes

This tool enables to assign a level of surety to the information. Level of surety is expressed by Surety scheme part (SSP). A set of SSPs forms Surety scheme (SS). User can define as much SSs as she wants. Within each SS, user can define an arbitrary number of SSPs. This ensures fine granularity, scalability and modularity in surety level description.

Family management

This tool enables to manage information about families. Family records are created automatically during building of family tree, but user has possibility to add several kind of information (e.g. notes) on families. This tool enables to display and manage all families in the system or just for one selected person.

Groups management

This tool enables to create and manage common groups of persons. A lot of information can be introduced for group, e.g. its members, parent groups, citations, mail, e-mail, URI information, etc. This tool enables to display all groups in the system or just for one selected person.

Data browsing

This tool enables to browse gathered information with hypertext navigation. In this way, convenient browsing of information is provided.

Genealogical graphs

GenTle enables to display genealogical graphs for selected persons. Following graphs are supported:

Family tree
Lineage
Ancestry
Consanguinity male
Consanguinity female

Navigation

GenTle provides user with possibility of person navigation. You can seek several person types for specified person. Following actions are supported:

Go to father: father of specified person is selected, if defined.
Go to mother: mother of specified person is selected, if defined.
Go to all children: all children of specified person are selected, if any.
Go to next child:next child of person specified person is selected, if any.
Go to all siblings: all siblings of specified person are selected, if any.
Go to next sibling: next sibling of specified person is selected, if any.

Plugins

This tool provides:

Interface for plugin creating
Plugins are used to create different kind of arbitrary outputs of genealogical data
This output can be in both, graphical or textual form
All data manipulations within plugin is allowed but changing of data is not.

Settings

This tool provides:

Configure GenTle, including application font, compression option, depository path, etc.
Configure each project, including fonts, colors, styles, sizes, compression, etc.

Planned features

There is a lot of planned features. Note that this tool is under heavy development and its life just begun. First releases have functionality limited to the basic features but the functions of this tool increase quite quickly. Here you have some planned features:

support for CVS so that genealogical data can be stored in CVS
encryption support (you have a right to be paranoic ;-))
encryption
many other small features, ideas, improvements, etc.

enjoy;-)