Brother's Keeper is a

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program for

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. The program functions as a database, a research planner and task organizer, a data analyzer, a chart producer, and a report writer. The software enables export and import in the

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specification for exchanging genealogical data. Brother's Keeper used

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as the underlying database engine before version 7. Brother's Keeper has an email list for user support.BK mailing list
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Languages

Brother's Keeper is available in the following languages: English,

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, French (Canadian), French (Belgium), German, Danish, Icelandic and Czech, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Estonian, Slovenian, Slovak, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Afrikaans.

Languages

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