Progeny Genealogy

04/23/2021

Charting Companion 8 for Windows is now available. There are no new features (yet). The main differences are:
● Completely new "look"
● Better dialogs
● 64-bit architecture
● Easy to use "Wizard" mode
● Handles humongous DNA match files
If you have ver. 7, there isn't a compelling reason to upgrade, other than the esthetics.

If you bought within the last year, you get a free upgrade (contact us with proof of purchase). If you bought before that, get 30% off with coupon UGAPCH8 (expires 30 Apr, valid for download only).

Mac users: relax! you got this version last November.

12/18/2020

Announcing Charting Companion for Mac

We are pleased to announce that Charting Companion now runs on the Apple Mac.

If you are a Mac user, get Charting Companion for Mac, and tell the story of your family with unique and captivating charts and books.

If you are a Family Tree Maker user, Charting Companion also runs as a convenient plugin.

Buy Charting Companion for Mac. Also available for Windows. Each $39.95.

https://progenygenealogy.com/products/family-tree-charts

12/06/2020

08/09/2020

GENELINES is one of the most powerful research and storytelling tools available to anyone researching their family tree.

By bringing together elements of time, history and family relationships on visual time line charts, Genelines (for Windows) software can bring your family tree to life.


Genelines Pedigree
Genelines automatically reads your family tree database so you don't need to re-enter your family information. For a complete list of compatible family tree database programs, click here.

Your choice of CD-ROM or Download!
https://progenygenealogy.com/products/timeline-charts/

Genelines Descendant

CREATE AMAZING TIMELINE CHARTS

Genelines features a suite of seven different timeline chart formats, consisting of two BIOGRAPHICAL and five RELATIONSHIP charts.

Each of these seven charts can be customized according to: timeline, historical events, personal or family events, colors and fonts.

Unique in presentation, the Individual and Comparative Biographical Charts allow you to include such events as career path, relationships, place of residence, etc., and compare these life experiences with those of other relatives in your database.

You can even add historical events that were happening at different times during their lives to see how such events may have impacted the decisions they made and the directions they went.

The Relationship charts let you view your family pedigrees and lines of descent against a backdrop of historical events on the local, regional or world stage.

You can customize charts according to people, line of descent or family group, personal life details, color, and the history you wish to depict.

The relationship charts can explain a great deal about your family and how they lived and even allow you to add people who are not necessarily related.

FLEXIBLE PRINTING OPTIONS

All Genelines charts can be previewed and printed in full color, in various sizes - including wall charts - or published to PDF and incorporated into a web page or shared by e-mail. The Genelines form of presentation can be much more meaningful and easier to understand than a typical text based report, and can help you draw conclusions that may otherwise have been missed.


Genelines Fan chart
GET YOURS TODAY

Genelines, a program that will help you:

Produce amazing timeline charts
Identify missing information
Highlight illogical or contradictory data
Expose duplicate persons
Focus your research
Assist with data collection
help you understand your data better
An unbelievable program at an unbelievable price of $29.95 (Download) / $34.95 + shipping (CD-ROM).

For more information on Genelines, sample charts and research examples go to:

https://progenygenealogy.com/products/timeline-charts/

For more information on ordering your copy of Genelines 2.4 for Windows, go to:

https://progenygenealogy.com/products/timeline-charts/universal-version/

Or, if you would rather, call us at 902-681-3102 and place your order with us directly.

Such a valuable program at such a great price, now is the time to make it a part of your genealogy software library.

05/08/2020

Charting Companion for Apple "Macs"; FTM 2019

We are hard at work converting Charting Companion 7 to Apple's macOS operating system. When the conversion is completed, Charting Companion will run on MacBooks and iMacs. We still have a fair bit of work to do. We will notify all our customers when the new version is ready.

Here are "work-in-progress" screen shots of the Family Group View, Ancestor chart and Descendant chart running on a Mac:

Charting Companion 7.2.10 has been released to provide compatibility with the new Family Tree Maker 2019.

If you have an earlier version of Charting Companion, our upgrade policy is:

If you purchased after June 2018 (ver. 7), you get a free upgrade. In the Charting Companion menu, click on "Help -> Check for upgrades".
If you purchased after Oct 2017, you get a discount (contact us).
Before Oct 2017: purchase a new Registration Key.
Get Charting Companion today and make family history.

05/07/2020

DNA Matrix: Snatching A Century-Old Secret From the Grave

When my cousins and I tested our DNA, we were not prepared for the surprise revealed by Charting Companion's DNA Matrix chart. Note the red centiMorgans (DNA Units) at the intersection below the boxes.

The red indicates that the amount of DNA shared is too low for "first cousins". Also, the yellow-highlighted DNA shared by the family on the left (blue), is consistently in a very low probability range.

There is something wrong with this chart: the genealogical relationships (family tree) are inconsistent with the laboratory results. This tree, by the way, is based on official government birth certificates.

What is the explanation of this discrepancy?

After further investigation centering around some puzzling remarks made a long time ago by relatives now gone, we came to the conclusion that the (blue) family on the left could be from a different father. In 1909, my feisty 19-year old Scottish grandmother Connie had just gotten off the boat, alone and unsupervised on a new continent. What could go wrong? Well, she met a mystery man and had her first daughter Ruby. Later, she met & married my grandfather Alfred, who impersonated Ruby's birth father.

We share one grand-parent with the family on the left, which makes them half-cousins. All the red is gone, as the DNA is consistent with the new tree. Charting Companion's DNA Matrix chart revealed a secret that would otherwise have been lost forever. We all had a chuckle, ever so grateful to our grandmother, for had she done anything differently, we would not exist!

Try the DNA Matrix on your own tree to prove your research.

Charting Companion works with all genealogy programs: Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, GEDCOM, etc. You can also download your Ancestry, FamilySearch or MyHeritage GEDCOM file.

Get Charting Companion today and make family history. Charting Companion is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

05/04/2020

DNA CSV Match Files: How to Define Your Own Format

When you get your DNA test done, you can upload your raw DNA file to a matching service such as GEDMatch, or use DNAGedcom to retrieve your match results from Ancestry, 23andMe, or Family Tree DNA.

When the matching process is complete, you can download a CSV (Comma Separated Value) spreadsheet with all your matches.

Charting Companion enables you to combine the match results with a Descendant Tree, giving you a DNA Matrix that describes the relationships in a clear and simple diagram.

Charting Companion automatically recognizes twenty-three of the most common and popular CSV match file formats.

User-defined CSV match fi

If your CSV match file is not identified by Charting Companion, or if you have built your own custom match file, you can get Charting Companion to recognize it by labeling it as a "User-defined" file, and telling CC where the columns are located. CC needs only three columns: Kit No. 1, Kit No. 2, and the total match length in cM (centiMorgans).

In the example above, the second row (highlighted in blue) contains the original column headers that were in the file. The first row (yellow) are the standard CC column headers assigned by the user: Kit 1, Kit 2, Chromosome number, start, end and length. All other columns are ignored.

To assign column headers to your own CSV match file, simply click on the "View" button in the DNA Matrix tab of the options dialog. See Help File or User Guide for complete details.

Charting Companion works with all genealogy programs: Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, GEDCOM, etc. You can also download your Ancestry, FamilySearch or MyHeritage GEDCOM file.

Get Charting Companion today and make family history. Charting Companion is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

05/04/2020

DNA Matches Spreadsheet - How to Easily Manage Your Contacts

When you get your DNA test done, you will discover hundreds or thousands of new matches: distant cousins who share your DNA. But, you have yet to determine how they are related to you.

Now you are faced with the task of connecting with these matches. How can you tell to which branch of the family they belong? Who do you contact first? How do you prioritize?

Charting Companion makes this easy for you with the DNA Matches spreadsheet.

The DNA Matches spreadsheet is automatically created when you do a DNA Matrix. In the DNA Matches spreadsheet, all your DNA matches are listed in order of centiMorgans (cM, how much DNA you share), and organized by which branch of your family they are likely from.

In the DNA Matches spreadsheet, the people in the left column are in your genealogy database. In the example below, they are the descendants of the same grandparents, divided into four families. The people in the top row are the DNA matches (highlighted in yellow). At the intersection are the degree of match (cM).

The two people highlighted in pink are the closest match (400 to 600 cM). The people highlighted in blue only match the elusive Flurgis family, because they don't tie into any other branch. Clearly these are the matches to contact first if you have a brick wall in that part of your family tree.

DNA Matches spreadsheet

The DNA Matches spreadsheet finds the needle in the haystack, and makes the important information jump out. The DNA Matches spreadsheet is included in ver. 7 of Charting Companion. Click for more details.

Charting Companion works with all genealogy programs: Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, GEDCOM, etc.

Get Charting Companion today and make family history.

05/04/2020

New Box Corner Styles and Background Images

Charting Companion 7 introduces new box styles, to improve Ancestor and Descendant charts: rounded, notched or octagon. You can also add a background image or color to enhance your charts.

If you have an earlier version of Charting Companion, our upgrade policy is:

If you purchased after June 2018 (ver. 7), you get a free upgrade.
If you purchased within the last year, you get a discount (contact us).
Within two years, purchase a Registration Key.
Charting Companion works with all genealogy programs: Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, GEDCOM, etc.

Get Charting Companion today and make family history.

05/04/2020

DNA Simulation - Automatically Building Your Family Tree

Charting Companion 7 features a new technology to help place adoptees and orphans in a family tree: the DNA Simulation. Based on the DNA Matrix , the DNA Simulation will construct a Descendant tree, then will systematically try to link the "orphan" to every person in the tree, one at a time. Charting Companion will validate the tree by calculating the expected centiMorgan (cM) implied by the hypothetical relationship, and comparing it to the actual laboratory DNA test results. Each iteration is called a "scenario". If the DNA test results are outside the cM range, the scenario is bad, will be discarded, and Charting Companion will advance to the next possible position of the orphan in the tree. If the DNA results are consistent, the good scenario will be recorded. All possible scenarios can then be reviewed for further investigation. (see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBe6Pd8g5no&feature=youtu.be ).

DNA Simulations

In addition to linking to existing persons, Charting Companion will also insert hypothetical or placeholder spouses and children, and attempt to link the orphan to these additional people. The added persons represent potential extramarital relationships, previous unknown marriages, unknown children, children given up to adoption, non-paternal events, etc. They are meant to suggest possible connections that would otherwise be very time-consuming to evaluate manually.The DNA Simulation is available in Charting Companion 7. See video for detailed explanation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBe6Pd8g5no&feature=youtu.be

If you have an earlier version of Charting Companion, our upgrade policy is:

- If you purchased within the last year, you get a free upgrade (contact us).
- If you purchased within two years, you get a 20% discount (contact us).
- Within three years, purchase a Registration Key.

Charting Companion works with all genealogy programs: Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, GEDCOM, etc.

Get Charting Companion today and make family history.

Automatically place adoptees or orphans into your family tree using DNA. Get Charting Companion at: http://progenygenealogy.com/Products/Family-Tree-Charts

05/04/2020

DNA Matrix: Supported CSV File Formats

Last March Charting Companion announced a new chart: the DNA Matrix . The DNA Matrix is available as a free upgrade to all customers who are using ver. 6 of Charting Companion.

The DNA Matrix helps you by showing an overview of DNA matches in a clear, simple chart. Charting Companion can also "validate" your tree by comparing actual DNA test results, against the number expected from the relationships. Are there surprises in your tree? Click for more details. Click for video.

Charting Companion now automatically recognizes the following CSV match file formats:

23andMe (Direct)
AncestryDNA (AncestryDNA Helper)
AncestryDNA (DNAGedcom)
FTDNA Chromosome Browser (Direct)
FTDNA Chromosome Browser (DNAgedcom)
FTDNA Family Finder (Direct)
FTDNA Family Finder (DNAgedcom)
FTDNA ICW
GEDmatch: One to many
GEDmatch: Tier 1 Triangulation
Genome Mate Pro
MyHeritage (Direct)
Pedigree Thief
User defined
The "User defined" format allows you to assign the Kit No. and centiMorgan columns to a file format of your own design, or a format not (yet) supported above. Send us a copy of your CSV file if it is not included, we'll add it!

DNA Matrix showing centiMorgan (cM) matches between members of a family.

Charting Companion works with all genealogy programs: Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, GEDCOM, etc.

Get Charting Companion today and make family history.

05/02/2020

Charting Companion announces a new chart: the DNA Matrix (aka "McGuire Method").

Genetic research offers new ways for genealogists to build their family tree, where conventional records and sources are not available.

Genealogists are submitting DNA samples to testing companies who can identify distinctive patterns in the DNA, and match the genealogist to millions of other participants.

Adoptees are using DNA to search for biological parents. Distant cousins and other relatives can contribute to your tree by providing information on branches where they have more research than you do.

The DNA Matrix helps you by showing an overview of DNA matches in a clear, simple chart. Charting Companion can also "validate" your tree by comparing actual DNA test results, against the number expected from the relationships. Are there surprises in your tree? Click for more detail.

DNA Matrix showing centiMorgan (cM) matches between members of a family.

Charting Companion works with all genealogy programs: Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, GEDCOM, etc.

Get Charting Companion today and make family history.

05/01/2020

09/27/2019

We are two-thirds of the way into converting Charting Companion to macOS.

There will also be benefits for Windows users. The technology that we are using is more productive, and will enable us to make UI changes more easily and quickly.

01/05/2019

Pruning your Family Tree

Have you ever needed a customized version of your family tree? For example, you want to show how two distant relatives are connected? Or you want to show only one branch of the family?

Charting Companion's Pruning feature enables you to "prune" or trim the branches of a family tree.

When displayed with Charting Companion, you can right-click and select two people, click on "Prune", and you will see their parallel lineage.

Save your tree as a an image, share with family and friends, or publish on the Internet. Pruning is available for both Descendant and Ancestor charts.

Charting Companion reads all genealogy databases:
Family Tree Maker
RootsMagic
Personal Ancestral File (PAF)
Legacy
Family Historian
Ancestral Quest
GEDCOM for all other programs

Get Charting Companion today and "prune" your tree!

*Note: the pruning applies only to the image, your database is not changed in any way.