Personal Historian Software

by RootsMagic

Product Features

• Write down thoughts and memories as they come to you and organize them later.
• Included timelines, historical events, and questions get your creative juices flowing.
• Add your existing word processor documents and photographs.
• Interactive timeline gives you a visual overview of the person's life.
• Publish your completed histories to printer, word processor, or PDF.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• ASIN: B000A3WWM6
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 1, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,709 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #27 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Genealogy

Product Description

Personal Historian is software which assists you in writing personal histories, memoirs, and biographies about yourself, your family, and other individuals. It breaks this seemingly monumental task into small, manageable pieces and then reconstructs it into a complete, publishable document. From start to finish, Personal Historian makes writing a life story fast, fun, and easy.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This program really helps you remember events, December 9, 2007

By 

John E. Worman (New Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Personal Historian Software (CD-ROM)

This program comes with a small but effective word editor. On the left panel of the screen there are a series of statements or questions meant to joggle your memory about past events.

When you enter the persons birthdate, the series of questions are customized for the life span of the person. The questions and categories containing the questions can be customized.

Photos can be added to the records.

When you've finished entering your data, the program will generate a report that can be printed, saved in RTF format or saved as a PDF.

Requests in the forum are for a table of contents and an index. Neither of these are available now.

If you have a genealogy program, much of the data can be imported using GEDCOM. The program will read data from a ROOTS MAGIC data base directly.

38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Neat Little Program, July 26, 2007

By 

William R. Warley "Psychologist" (GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Personal Historian Software (CD-ROM)

This program has some nice features for organizing one's personal history and story. The lists of events, music and other important happenings by date is extremely useful for establishing the time period when a personal life event took place. The program is worth the price for helping you to organize your thoughts when you write your personal memoir.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Personal Biography: Made Easy, April 23, 2011

By 

Jeanie Wryly (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Personal Historian Software (CD-ROM)

I am a quadriplegic who needed something more than a diary or journal. I felt a need to be autobiographical - - like, who knows? Maybe I'll write a book! THE PERSONAL HISTORIAN suited my needs just perfectly! THE PERSONAL HISTORIAN is genius in the manner in which it prompts memories from 25, 30, years ago with culturally relevant events. It also has a much more than adequate diary capability (for all that daily kvetching!).

I really dig the way it works so seamlessly with my voice recognition program (for a person who cannot use their arms, a voice recognition program is indispensable!).