Third was GenSmarts, a program by Underwood Innovations to help you do your genealogical research. Second was Evidentia, a source-centric genealogy tool by Ed Thompson, that ended the year with a weighted user rating of 4.97 out of 5 based on 13 reviews. Family Book Creator received a perfect rating of 5.00 out of 5 based on 16 user reviews. The top program for 2016 was Family Book Creator, by Stefan Harms, a plugin for Family Tree Maker that lets you create a family book from your Family Tree Maker database. 5 Online programs: Famberry, Genealogie Online, The Next Generation, webtrees, and MyHeritage.3 programs built for Windows, Mac and Unix: Evidentia, Familienbande, and GenealogyJ.2 Mac programs: iFamily for Mac, and Reunion.17 Windows programs: Family Book Creator, GenSmarts, Aldfaer, Ahnenblatt, Brother’s Keeper, Family Historian, Ancestral Quest, Personal Ancestral File, Ages!, Clooz, RootsMagic, Generations, Relatively Yours, Family Tree Builder, Family Tree Maker (up to Version 16), Heredis for PC, and The Master Genealogist.27 programs had a user-assigned average score of at least 4.00 out of 5.00. To earn the Award, the programs had to have a minimum of 10 reviews with at least one review in calendar year 2016. The winners for 2016 were based on 750 submitted reviews during the year. This is the 8th year has announced its User Choice Awards.

The site lists 980 programs, and users have contributed over 4,300 ratings and reviews. is the site users go to rate and review their genealogy software and to find out about other genealogy software to try. As noted in the announcement which I received by email,

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