GRAMPS FAMILY TREE SOFTWARE SOFTWARE
However other genealogy software uses the system or today’s date which makes for some extremely old character (think nearly 2000 years old). In Genopro I simply show birth and death dates in AE and set the display date as 95AE (or 103AE for the situation at the end of the war). Clemhorn’s Cross-Temporal Empire measures time beginning with its establishment in 1884CE, i.e. In addition Genopro doesn’t handle imaginary calendars. Given that my Clemhorn Trilogy covers approximately 7 years of extremely bloody fratricidal civil war you can see the difficulty I have if I attempt to use the same chart for the beginning as I do end of the war. Unfortunately if you have a character who died in 2012 aged 59 it continues to show the individual as dead in 2009, aged 59. If you want to see how old they were in 2009, just change the date to 2009. It also has the ability for the date a chart has been prepared to be included, eg if you have a family tree and you want to see how old everyone is in 2013, just set the date to 2013.
Genopro can at times be frustrating to use, but it does allow the user to include user definable fields. Other software includes GRAMPS and Agelong Tree 4.
Unfortunately, despite numerous attempts to find a program to meet my needs the closest I’ve been able get is Genopro. Genealogy programs would appear ideal for this purpose but SF&F writers often need to be able to identify individuals by their planet (or in my case 54 individual ‘timelines’ or ‘alternative reali) and/or be able to operate multiple calendars. Science Fiction and Fantasy writers often have the need to keep track of enormous numbers of people.
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