NEWGEN

NEWGEN is a genealogy program for the Atari ST(E). It was written in 1987 in FORTRAN and is now available as freeware. It is an old fashioned TOS program which does not use GEM. The current version is 4.15

With it you can enter details of up to 999 persons (or 4000 using NEWGEN5K or NEWGENG) and display, print or save birth briefs, family groups, descendant lists and drop line trees. It is limited to no more than 3 partners and not more than 16 children per person.

Users have stated that it is very easy to use (despite not being a GEM application) and I still use it myself. There is full documentation and many on-line prompts.

There is also a separate GEDCOM facility program by which you can import data (from a GEDCOM file) from other genealogy data bases, and by which you can export your data into a GEDCOM file for reading into other programs.  This is called NEWGED and is a full GEM implementation.

NEWGEN comes in three versions:
     1.   NEWGEN which caters for up to 999 persons and can be run entirely from floppy disks.
     2.   NEWGEN5K which caters for up to 4000 persons; to make full use of this you need a hard disk.
     3.   NEWGENG which is similar to NEWGEN5K which it supersedes and which can by run on PCs with
           GEMULATOR   98 installed. This package includes a program for printing any drop line tree generated by any
           version of NEWGEN (5K,G) on any EPSON compatible printer.

You can download any one of these versions or NEWGED as a ZIP file:
               download NEWGEN        (158 Kbytes)
               download NEWGEN5K   (158 Kbytes)
               download NEWGENG     (217 Kbytes)
               download NEWGED        (191 Kbytes)

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egrichards@zetnet.co.uk        May 5th  1999