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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® National Treasure Edition is the state-of-the-art presentation of the results of over fourteen 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® National Treasure 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 5.0 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® National Treasure 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 National
Treasure and 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 always the latest and
greatest edition which is currently the Family Forest®
National Treasure Edition. It includes everything in all previous
editions, plus much much more and with this one disc 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®
National Treasure Edition like one still photograph compares to a full length
motion picture film. Second, if you have the Family Forest®
National Treasure or New World Edition, you can create any or all of the
Family Forest® eBook titles yourself. Here’s how
easy it is. 11) What are Family Forest® Kinship Reports? They are the computer-generated result of having Progeny Genealogy’s amazing Family Explorer 5.0 software explore from the subject of the report through the entire Family Forest® in search of every person within a certain distance, say 10-generations or 50-generations, who is related by blood or marriage to the subject, and then calculating the exact relationship between them, and displaying the closest ancestor who connects them. What does it mean when you find that one of your
ancestors is also an ancestor of a subject of a Family Forest® Kinship
Report? It means that you are a
cousin of that person, and within the Family Forest®
National Treasure Edition you can visually explore the generation-by-generation
family ties leading from your ancestor to your cousin. Thank you for your interest in our
Family Forest® Project. Please tell your friends and
family about us. Sitemap
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