DoroTree Jewish Genealogy Software

The revolutionary new program for Jewish genealogists

With DoroTree you can:

Produce both English and Hebrew printouts.
Enter names in Hebrew characters without a Hebrew operating system.
Print Yahrzeit tables for years to come.
Move smoothly between generations.
Easily transfer information to overseas family members with a "friendly" multilingual user interface.
Convert dates from Hebrew-Gregorian and vice versa.
Use a special icon to mark Holocaust victims.
Get direct Internet access to Jewish genealogy sites.

DoroTree offers international support by email, phone or fax in the US, England, France and Israel.

DoroTree was developed with an emphasis on user friendliness. With this goal in mind we made an effort to design all actions as similar and as standard as possible.

DoroTree performs simultaneously in two character sets: Latin characters (English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese) on the left and Hebrew on the right. (You can type in and display Hebrew characters without a Hebrew operating system. A virtual Hebrew keyboard is supplied with the program.)

You do not have to take advantage of the unique multi-language feature offered exclusively by DoroTree and may develop your family tree in one language only.

Building a Family Database in Hebrew Only

You may be well acquainted with the Hebrew language and decide to base your data on Hebrew characters only. This is possible. However, be warned that presently none of the central Jewish family databases accept information in Hebrew characters. This means that not including English characters a priori removes the option to submit your family tree to the existing free services conducted by Beth-Hatefusoth: Museum of the Jewish People in Israel, JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy or JGFF: JewishGen Family Finder.

If you do not read Hebrew, you can change the right hand side to display Hebrew or Jewish names and dates in Latin characters. The program will still convert and transliterate the dates. However, you will then have to enter the Hebrew/Yiddish first names by yourself.

The user interface language can be changed at will between English, Hebrew, French, Portuguese and Spanish. This will effect the User Interface i.e. what you see on the screen, but not the data itself, which remains as it was entered into the database. This feature aids in the easy transfer of information between family members around the world.

DoroTree Features in Detail

Pictures
DoroTree imports all popular picture formats - you may include as many pictures per person as you choose.

Write ahead
The program offers a "write ahead" feature, completing surnames and places after partial typing in. This feature draws on an internal table of names previously entered.

Date formats
You can choose from a variety of date formats for your data input and display.

Date conversions
DoroTree has fields for both civil and Hebrew dates.
DoroTree also comes with a date converter - a click of the mouse and your date is converted from Hebrew to civil, or visa versa.

The Sunset button
The Jewish day begins at sunset, whereas the civil day begins at midnight. During the period between sunset and midnight the Jewish date is already "the next day" while the civil date has not yet changed.

If a birth, marriage or death occurred between sunset and midnight then press the Sunset button between the date fields. The image will change from a sun to a moon. Pressing the date convert button afterwards will adjust the date accordingly.

Hebrew and Yiddish names
Are you confused by all the names one single relative of yours had a few generations back?

Was your great grandmother called Dorothy Ethel Deborah in her official papers, but Ita D’vora in her Jewish records?

How do you represent that without filling her regular first name field with five names and too many characters to print on any form of family tree?

Let’s say that you want the Hebrew or Yiddish names to show up in your family tree: does your software allow you to do that?

With DoroTree you can specify which name and other fields you want included in your family tree and it prints it. What you don’t want to see, don’t include.

"OnkelUs" First Name Translator
As a Jewish genealogist you want to be able to enter your ancestors’ and your family’s Hebrew or Yiddish names when you know them – and in the original language, Hebrew, Yiddish or Ladino.

You don’t read Hebrew? You don’t type Hebrew? Sounds difficult? Not really, DoroTree’s OnkelUs function is a first name converter that will help you to do this automatically with many Hebrew or Yiddish names.

If you know your grandfather’s Hebrew name was Moses or Moshe, just right click his name and OnkelUs will translate it into Hebrew in Hebrew characters!

Hebrew Keyboard
If you do not have Hebrew Windows installed, then the data input dialog boxes display a Keyboard button at the bottom right, which when clicked displays an on-screen keyboard.

The letters of the Hebrew Aleph Bet are arranged in alphabetical order to ease data entry.

To use the keyboard, simply click on the Hebrew field into which you wish to enter data, and use your mouseclick on the appropriate letters.

Holocaust Victims
Many Jewish genealogists of European origin find that a large number of their ancestors and relatives were killed in the Holocaust.

DoroTree features a special Holocaust symbol that enables you to mark Holocaust victims in your database and – on your family tree printouts, should you so wish.

GEDCOM
You can start your DoroTree family by importing your existing family database as a GEDCOM file from another genealogy program.

(GEDCOM is an internationally accepted standard format for the exchange of data between genealogists. Most genealogical software programs will have a utility for importing and exporting family databases from one program to another).

You have the following GEDCOM options:

Export: Build a GEDCOM file from your DoroTree family database.
Import new tree: Import a family database from another program. (In this case DoroTree will keep the GEDCOM identity numbers as generated by the original program.)
Append to current tree: Import and add an external family database into your existing DoroTree family database. (In this case DoroTree will assign new identity numbers to the added records.)
Special import: Attempt to import Hebrew fields from another program.