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Personal Historian is the ground-breaking computer software which
helps you write the story of your life and of other individuals.
Personal Historian Essentials is a free program that contains core features
from Personal Historian. This list shows the features found in Personal Historian
Essentials as well as the additional features unique to the full version of Personal
Historian.
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Personal Historian Essentials
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Personal Historian
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Free
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$29.95
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General Features
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Runs under Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000
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Single-file database format
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Support for international character sets through Unicode integration
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Integrated backup and restore help safeguard your data
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Free technical support
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Easy to Learn and Use
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Easy file management
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Easy to use Explorer-like help system
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Sidebar on main screen makes filtering easy
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Use of Wizards simplifies tasks
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Organize Your Personal History
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Write unlimited stories
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View the list of your stories on screen
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Filter the list of stories
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Just double click story in list to edit the story
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Customize the story list layout
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Quickly add a journal entry story
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Edit random stories (great for writer's block)
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Story Editing
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Use multiple fonts in stories
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Use paragraph styles
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Add images to stories
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Wordwrap text about pictures
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Readability Analysis
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Full screen edit mode
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Spell checking
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Live spell check
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Thesaurus
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Adding footnotes
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Text-to-speech reads your story back to you
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Speech-to-text takes dictation
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Add new paragraph styles
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Import styles
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Export styles
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Story Organizing
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Organizer lets you create an outline for each story
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Brainstorm to add items to Organizer
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Add subitems to Organizer
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Easily rearrange outline items
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Copy outline to the word processor
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Search Features
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Search for text in the current story
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Search and replace in the current story
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Full text search across all stories
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Story Filters
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Filter the master story list
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Filter the stories included in the published book
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Save and reuse filters
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Publish Your Personal History
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Print to any printer connected to your computer
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Customize headers, footers, margins, and fonts
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Include any stories in your personal history
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Include cover and title pages, copyright, dedication, acknowledgement, preface pages
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Include index of people in the story
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Create multiple customized personal histories for each person
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Save books to PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
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Save books to your word processor (RTF)
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E-mail books directly from the print preview
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Include index of places in the story
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Tools
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Date calculator when entering dates
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Pop up calendar when entering dates
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Gazetteer to look up places
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Place name standardization and geocoding
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Display places on map
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Compatibility
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Direct RootsMagic import
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Direct Family Tree Maker import (version 16 and earlier)
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Direct PAF import (version 5)
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Direct Legacy import (versions 3 and later)
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GEDCOM import
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Import text data (tab or comma delimited)
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