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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 10, 8, 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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Download people and posts from your Facebook feed
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Download pictures and comments from your Facebook feed
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Copy stories from one Personal Historian file to another
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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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LifeCapsule Editor lets you make your own timelines to share with others
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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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