The Family Forest is “The World’s Most Interconnected
Digital Resource of Ancestral History.” It is the best digital central source
for fully documented generation-by-generation ancestral pathways connecting
everyday people to each other and famous people, Hollywood stars and
characters, royalty and nobility, gateway ancestors, the American Revolution,
the Civil War, the Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, saints, Biblical characters, the Bible and hereditary societies.
The Family Forest New World Edition is the
state-of-the-art presentation of the results of ten years of strategically
focused development of the family and world history content and service of the
Family Forest® Project.
It represents tens of thousands of hours of journeying
through hundreds of great
historical and genealogical books and society periodicals in search of
hard-to-find ancestral history, and creating a well-sourced digital map of
everywhere visited. Fascinating
stories about ancestors of most of the people in America and Europe were
located, and users can instantly zoom in to any and all points along the
journey.
The Family Forest is the best digital central source for
point-and-click exploration of the ancestral pathways leading to and from a
variety of places, events, and groups of people.
They include key gateway ancestors who came to America in
the early 1600’s, the American Revolution, key officers in the Civil War,
American political leaders (presidents, vice presidents, cabinet members,
ambassadors, governors, senators, and local officials), European royalty and
nobility, religious leaders (saints, popes, cardinals, bishops, and clergymen),
and more.
It is also the best digital central source for connecting
everyday people to the casts and characters of numerous classic Hollywood
films, and for comparing the accepted lineages of leading hereditary societies
to one another.
With its strong emphasis of following the ancestral lines
from mothers, and the descendant lines from daughters, the Family Forest may be
the most female-focused ancestral history resource available anywhere.
The Family Forest is the best tour guide service to many
centuries of professionally recorded paper based ancestral history, and it
provides fascinating and enriching maps to the locations of that wealth of
recorded history.
The Family Forest® New World Edition spans more than 3,000
years of exciting human history. Many family lines travel at least ten
generations, and some for more than sixty generations. With Progeny Software’s
amazing Family
Explorer 4.0 software, which is included free, this lineage-linked disc can
actually calculate and display many thousands of fully sourced ancestor charts
with more than one
million boxes filled in on each chart.
The Family Forest® New World Edition is a fun and
enriching educational reference resource for students, parents, teachers,
librarians, historians, genealogists, writers, actors, movie enthusiasts, and
historic travelers.
2) What is unique about the Family Forest?
The primary uniqueness of the Family Forest® Project
is in its basic mission
. We are reweaving the tapestry of our past by placing
individuals just one time into the one and only place they occupied in the
actual unfolding of history, and connecting them to as many ancestors, descendants,
spouses, siblings, and accomplishments as they deserve to be connected to.
Rather than imitating the big companies and being in
a mad numbers rush to accumulate thousands of repetitions of basically the same
information about the same individuals (and counting them as if they were
different people), we take a much better approach. We are carefully filtering
out repetitions with the goal of zero duplication; so that you are presented
with high quality handcrafted distilled knowledge clearly displayed.
3) How is the Family Forest grown?
The Family Forest is strategically grown day by day
with great care keystroke by keystroke, guided by human intelligence. We have
already spent tens of thousands of hours journeying through hundreds of fascinating
historical and genealogical books and periodicals exploring,
in search of the best of the best ancestral history, and we are leaving a well
marked digital trail of everywhere we visit so you can instantly zoom in to any
points we visited along the odyssey.
There has been no slapping together of unsourced
GEDCOMs, automated merging, or any other type of technology blindly running
unrestrained.
See how the Family Forest has already grown.
4) Who is in the Family Forest?
The Family Forest contains about the same ratio of
everyday people to famous people as in the real world today, meaning that the
Family Forest is mostly comprised of housewives, farmers, ministers, teachers,
factory workers, fishermen, carpenters, clerks, etc. etc.
A number of these people in the Family Forest were
also documented members of some of the well known hereditary societies, such as
the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolution,
the Order of Founders and Patriots, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the
National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, the Order of the
Crown of Charlemagne in the USA, the National Society of Colonial Dames of
America, and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
However, the smaller ratio of famous people does
include a very large number of people who were kings, queens, princes,
princesses, emperors, saints, popes, dukes, earls, barons, knights, generals,
admirals, presidents, senators, judges, Magna Charta sureties, signers of the
Declaration of Independence, artists, authors, poets, musicians, inventors,
Hollywood celebrities, etc.
5) Are any of my own ancestors in the Family Forest?
The answer is almost absolutely 100% yes. We believe
that everyone on the planet has at least some ancestors in the Family Forest®.
Some people will even find that some of their
ancestors are so extensively lineage-linked into the Family Forest® that the
New World Edition can literally create ancestor charts that fill in millions of boxes
with the names of their actual ancestors, according to recorded history.
However, some of your own closest Family Forest
ancestors so far may have lived centuries ago. The more you know about your own
immediate ancestors, the greater the likelihood that you will find you own
connecting points to many generation-by-generation ancestral pathways that will
lead you to and through the Middle Ages and back to Roman Times B.C.
6) How accurate is the Family Forest?
This requires a two-part answer. Our part is
extremely accurate. We are the tour guides who lead you to the specific
recorded history about who said what about whom when and where. We might
occasionally misinterpret what we read, transpose a number, or make a typo, but
not often. Besides, the source locations of 99.9% of the statements and
connections are just a mouse-click away.
As for the accuracy of the statements and
connections themselves, there is a reasonable probability that they are
true, because most of them were recorded by recognized and highly respected
experts over the centuries.
We do alert Family Forest users to instances where
the experts disagree, and we are always in search of more accurate or complete
statements and connections to upgrade existing statements and connections.
7) Do I need to be a computer whiz to use the Family
Forest?
Definitely not. Anyone who completes the Introductory tour
will have mastered all of the main easy and fun tools for exploring in the
Family Forest.
8) What do the experts say about the Family Forest?
They describe the Family Forest with powerful words
like amazing, fascinating, monumental, and revolutionary. See some full reviews for yourself.
9) What do customers say about the Family Forest?
See some of the enthusiastic
unedited comments for yourself.
10) Which Family Forest publication is best for me?
The answer is almost certainly the Family Forest® New World
Edition. With this one CD you can re-create any or all of the more than
$3,000 of reasonably priced Family Forest® secondary publications, such as the Family Forest® Descendants
Series eBooks, the Family
Forest® Ancestors Series eBooks, and the Family Forest® specialty
theme-based CD-ROMs.
If you are just looking for specific surname
information in standard genealogical format about the descendants of particular
immigrant ancestors, Family Forest® Descendants Series eBooks may be just the
ticket.
Many of these under-$30 titles compare favorably to,
and in some ways are better than, many printed genealogies in the $75 to $150
range. However, please keep two things in mind about Family Forest® eBooks.
First, no matter how great a particular title is, a
Family Forest® eBook compares to the Family Forest® New World Edition like one
still photograph compares to a full length motion picture film.
Second, if you have the Family Forest® New World
Edition, you can create any or all of the Family Forest® eBook titles yourself. Here’s how easy it is.
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