Progen

Sinclair User

Overall 4/10

Chris Jenkins 4/10

Label: Gensoft, [redacted] Author: Alan Biggs Price: £7.50 (mail-order only) Memory: 48K/128K Joystick: None Reviewer: Chris Jenkins Tracing your ancestors may be a fascinating hobby, but I don't see that Progen has much to add to it. Progen allows you to record the family relationships of up to thirty people from five generations, using a tree diagram. Details of names, place of birth and so on are then entered on to "family group sheets" which can be printed out. Details of children are listed separately. Using the Seed and Root commands you can then produce different charts of relationships. A worthy effort, but since ProGen can't tell you any information you haven't entered into it in the first place, it's ultimately a bit of a waste of time.

Sinclair User

Overall 5/10

Chris Jenkins 5/10

Label: Gensoft [redacted] Author: Alan Biggs Price: £7.50 (mail-order only) Memory: 48K/128K Joystick: None Reviewer: Chris Jenkins Tracing your ancestors may be a fascinating hobby, but I don't see that Progen has much to add to it. Progen allows you to record the family relationships of up thirty people from five generations, using a tree diagram. Details of names, place of birth and so on are then entered on to "family group sheets" which can be printed out. The big problem is that to expand the number of people covered you have to save lot of different files using different Root names. This makes the business so tedious that I can't help thinking you'd be better off with a WH Smiths notepad in the first place.