A tap on a name showed a little more detail, birth and death date. Again I rejected it.Ģ GedTreeFree - showed a chart with some people on it, but with no way to see the rest. The Family Tree of Family - couldn t find a way to get it to sucesfully read my gedom file, but it does seem to have the ability to enter information (all the rest just display existing data). FamilyGTG (Free) - seemed to just show relationships and no details at all not even birth/marriage dates. Family Bee (Free trial) - this found my gedcom file but failed to load anything from it. This comparison was done in early Features in the apps may change over time, and they may work better with your data rather than mine. The other main criteria was the amount of detail in the data they extracted from the gedcom file, and the ease of finding individuals. In most I found that when the app was installed, it created its own folder on the tablet and if the gedcom file e.g. Once I started the comparison I found that there is very little documentation or instructions on how to use the apps, and in how to give it the gedom file. The gedcom file I've used for testing has around 500 people in it and quite a range of data, but no pictures. One of the limitations in some free ones is the amount of people it can handle. Many do seem to have a free version with some restrictions, and more features in the one you pay for. So for the purposes of evaluation I've just looked a the ones that are free. The first thing to notice is that there are free ones, always attractive, and ones that have a small cost. One criteria being that the data is all held on the device without the need for any phone or wi-fi signal to use it. Android apps So a search for this found and it was then a case of comparing what was available. The majority of the ones I found provide the means to view your existing data, but not to modify it and then have to transfer it back to the PC. I don't want the ability to update it on my tablet as it is much easier using the keyboard on the PC, and far faster to use a piece of paper to write down what I discover in the library. As I didn't want a full genealogy program to compete with the one I already run on my PC, I only need to look for a gedcom viewer, as all useful genealogy programs can export their data in a gedcom file. Apple have their own system, but the majority of other suppliers run the Android operating system, and that is what my tablet runs. The first dependency is the software running on the phone/tablet, and that depends on who made it. So I've been looking for software to do that. I only have the need for a simple phone as I rarely use it, but I have now bought a tablet computer so that I can sit with it in my hand and read my via wi-fi or browse the web. ![]() ![]() Many people do now have an electronic device that could help them with that as many now carry a smart phone round with them. ![]() I can also find that there is something I didn't take with me and think how useful it would be to have all the info on my PC with me. But that is at home and when we go to a library or record office I always need details of what I already know about that part of the tree on paper, as I can never remember it all. 1 Introduction Genealogy apps for Android phones & tablets Many of us use a genealogy program to record the details of our research and also to guide us where to add more details.
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