2012-01-07 Free Android Genealogy Apps

Android Genealogy Apps

mobile genealogy

quick overview

This is a quick overview of free genealogy apps for Android. Several of these apps are in still Beta, or early feature-incomplete versions, but are likely to improve. Many apps require Android 2.1 or 2.2, but some even work on Android 1.5 or 1.6.

Andy Aspell-Clark: AGeneDB

AGeneDB is the first genealogy app for Android. It is a GEDCOM 5.5.1 viewer. Development has been discontinued due to lack of donations, and it is no longer available in the Android Market. The last known release is AGeneDB version 2.0.0.0 dated 2010 May 25.

BeeKeeper Labs: Family Bee Trial

Family Bee is a commercial Android app. Family Bee Trial is a time-limited trial edition of the commercial app. Family Bee is a GEDCOM viewer, or, as they call it, a family tree browser. Family Bee boasts support for ANSEL, ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 GEDCOM files.

Piod Song: My Heritage

A very simple genealogy app with anniversary alarm.

Jiapu: Family Tree

Jiapu is Ancestry.com's Chinese site. Family Tree is Ancestry.com's Tree to Go in Chinese.

David Arturo Chaves: Family Browser

Family Browser is an open source family tree viewer. Family Browser does not support GEDCOM, but a custom YAML format instead.

AppsBar Anthonys: NC Genea Info

North-Carolina genealogy & history info, from the NCGenWeb Project.

AppTime: 1BGraves

AppTime's 1BGraves is a camera app that works with the BillionGraves site, a competitor to Find a Grave. The app allows you to take pictures of headstones and upload them to the BillionGraves, and uses GPS to automatically add photo location data.
Posted photos can be transcribed on the site.

JKWorth: Find Grave

The Find Grave app by Jeff Killingsworth is still in Public Beta.
The Find Grave app works with the Find a Grave site.

Threadbare Canvas Productions: Historic Graves Finder

Historic Graves Finder is an app that uses data from historicgraves.ie to help you find nearby graves by name or location.

RIPNAV Corporation: RIPNAV GPS GraveSite Locator

RIPNAV GPS GraveSite Locator is an app that takes advantage of GPS to record the location of a grave site.

Teedy Software: Kinship

Kinship is a kinship calculator; enter the relationship to a common ancestor for two persons, and the app tells you what their relation to each other is.

MyHeritage: FamilyConnect

FamilyConnect is an app to upload photos to MyHeritage.com. The newer MyHeritage app includes that feature.

MobiWolf: GeneDroid

GeneDroid is an Android client for Geni.com. GeneDroid allows you to view Geni.com data. Geni.com account limitations do apply.

Segue Technologies, Inc: ANC Grave Locator

The Arlington National Cemetery is large. This app helps you find the grave you're looking for.

RestingSpot: RestingSpot

The RestingSpot app uses GPS to to help you register and the location of buried family and friends. The app works with the RestingSpot site, where others can leave messages.

A. C. Ivory: FGS

The FGS app offers such services as FGS radio, the FGS Voice newsletter, access to the FGS blog and the FGS conference programme.

Cedrontech: Members

An app that provides Hutterite colony, geography, genealogy, and contact information available.

LiveFamily: LiveFamily

LiveFamily is an Android app that lets you access the LiveFamily FamilyTree FaceBook app The FaceBook app was previously known as FamilyBuilder. LiveFamily is owned by Intelius, an American company best known for providing background checks.

Ancestry.com: Ancestry

Ancestry.com introduced an iOS variant early in 2011, the Android variant late in 2011. The Ancestry for Android Beta started on 2011 Nov 3, and Ancestry for Android was released on 2011 Dec 21.
The app allows you to edit your tree on Ancestry.com.

MyHeritage: MyHeritage

MyHeritage is not a native Android app. It requires Adobe AIR to run. The MyHeritage app works with the MyHeritage site. The app is free, but requires a MyHeritage account, and MyHeritage account limitations do apply. MyHeritage version 1.0, introduced 2011 Dec 14 is a read-only app, because the MyHeritage Family Graph API is still read-only.

SourceQuest: ezGED Viewer

The ezGED Viewer is a GEDCOM viewer for Android with that supports GEDCOM 5.5 and 5.5.1.

AppTime: Family History Media

Family History Media is for use with the Family History Notebook site. The app is free, the site is freemium.
It is an app to photograph documents, capture video and record audio.

Dmitriy Konyuhov: The Family Tree of Family

This Android app is an addition to the commercial Windows and Linux app available at www.familytree.ru, but version 1.0 does not synchronise with those, nor import or GEDCOM files.

Coret Genealogie: Genealogie Werkbalk Mobiel

Coret Genealogie has introduced Genealogie Werkbalk Mobiel (Genealogy Toolbar Mobile), the mobile variant of the Genealogie Werkbalk. Genealogie Werkbalk Mobiel is not a browser toolbar, but an Android app created with Conduit Mobile.

Arnon Hershkovitz: Cousinator

Another cousin calculator.

TreeSeek.com: Family Seek

Family Seek is an app to search the FamilySearch Family Tree (formerly known as New FamilySearch). A login for FamilySearch Family Tree is required.

FamilySearch: FamilySearch Indexing

FamilySearch app for document indexing on your Android.

updates

2012-01-07: instant update: The Family Tree of Family

The Family Tree of Family version 1.0 was introduced yesterday.

2012-01-08: instant update: Genealogie Werkbalk Mobiel

Coret Genealogie has introduced Genealogie Werkbalk Mobiel.

2012-01-11: Cedrontech Members

Added Cedrontech Members, an app that provides Hutterite genealogy information.

2012-01-15: David Arturo Chaves: Family Browser

Added David Arturo Chaves: Family Browser.

2012-01-30: Arnon Hershkovitz: Cousinator

Added Arnon Hershkovitz: Cousinator.

2012-02-02: TreeSeek.com: Family Seek & FamilySearch: FamilySearch Indexing

Added TreeSeek.com: Family Seek & FamilySearch: FamilySearch Indexing.