Family Atlas Genealogy Mapping Software

Family Atlas lets users create custom family maps based on their own genealogy data.Family Atlas users view their family information on an interactive world map (either spherical or flat), and can zoom in or out to see additional detail like state and county boundaries.Family Atlas directly imports data from popular genealogy software including RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, PAF, Legacy and GEDCOM. Places are automatically geo-coded by matching them against the 3.5 million name world place database included with Family Atlas.Sites of important family events are easily pinpointed by adding custom markers automatically tied to the genealogy data. Markers can be based on specific people and events, or on your entire family tree, making it easy to see migrations and clusters in family data. Markers can also be added by hand, making possible historical marker sets like Civil War Battles and personal marker sets like Our Family Vacations. Both hand-entered and data-based markers can easily be combined on the same map.Publishing beautiful maps is a breeze with Family Atlas. Users can enhance their maps with text, migration lines, text bubbles, photographs and other objects. Users can save or print their maps, or export them to PDF or a number of popular graphics formats to be used in reports, books, or websites.Other features in Family Atlas include the interactive Gazetteer, which helps locate almost any place in the world, and the Nearby Places List which finds all places and events within a given distance of any point.
Customer Review: Genealology mapping
Family Atlas Genealogy Mapping Software As a Geographer and map maker I have fairly high expectations of location based database software. Family Atlas delivers a really great product. I was able to pull in my GED files with no problems. It even allows you to add photos and other hyperlinked content to each location and customize my symbology. I was able to color code each branch or generation of your family to make it easy to see. I could print maps of the finshed product and even select a particular family group or an area (country, state, or city) on the map to print. Very nice and well worth the price.
Customer Review: Produces Useable Maps
Family Atlas works very well in pulling in the information from a genealogy program. It is an excellent resource for verifying place names and recognizes obsolete place names, giving the current name as well. This feature was especially useful to me, as many of my ancestors lived in towns in areas of Europe that have changed countries. The main product is a world map, however, you can zoom in on a section of the map to produce a map of that portion of the world. The map you produce can be exported to a word processing program, so you can insert the map into your family history story.

Computers are everywhere but they are also vulnerable to a number of threats. The computer system's biggest threat is the dreaded virus.

A virus is basically malicious computer code that has the ability to cause havoc in a number of ways. It may work by destroying the data and programs on affected systems. It may log keystrokes in order to gain sensitive information such as passwords.

Different kinds of computer viruses are known to be in the world wild web at any given time. Here is a look at some of the some of the common types of viruses.

Macro viruses

These are known to be the most widespread viruses partly because of the popularity of programs for which macros are written. Moreover, being platform independent also adds to the overall threat posed by these viruses. In fact macro viruses are known to have already caused much more damage than almost any other type of known computer virus.

Network viruses

Again, these are also an extremely widespread type of virus. These viruses are found in Local Area Networks and are known to spread using the shared network resources. In fact they are so dangerous that if they enter a LAN, they can even choke the entire bandwidth of the LAN which means that doing any kind of work on the network becomes an extremely slow and painful task. Commonly known Network viruses include SQLSlammer and Nimda.

Logic Bombs

Yet another type of computer virus. They can be inserted in a computer program. The Logic bomb is triggered when any function of the host program or any other program is used. Common cases of Logic Bombs are known to have triggered on a given date, generally the April Fools Day or on Friday the 13th (A date considered to be unlucky in a number of countries all over the world). The logic bombs can even delete files if triggered.

Companion Viruses

Companion Viruses are known to be effective on MS-DOS based systems only and therefore all the 9X versions of Microsoft Windows are also affected by it. This is obviously a much smaller threat than it used to be. This virus is known to create new files with the .com extension, though there are some reports of it being capable of creating EXE files. As Windows XP, (the most common OS) is not based on DOS, the threat of these viruses is subsiding.

Boot Sector Viruses

Another really nasty type of virus is the Boot Sector Virus. These viruses are capable of damaging the hard drive itself because they reside in the Sector Zero and are capable of attacking the Master Boot Record of the drive. These viruses generally used floppy drives to spread and have started to decline as the usage of floppy drives has subsided.

Almost all the different kinds of computer viruses can be removed using good anti virus software so it is always recommended that you should have one installed and updated in your computer.

If your not 100% sure that your computer is safe then you should be. Visit the Free Anti Virus Downloads website, see what's on offer for free and learn the various ways there are of protecting your PC.

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