New Features for Clooz Software

Ancestral Systems LLC, Booth 719  

 http://www.clooz.com

Ancestral Systems LLC (booth 719) is dedicated to developing software applications designed to meet the needs of family history researchers. It is their goal to provide tools that make it easier to follow best-practice research processes. Ancestral Systems’ staff are avid family history researchers, ensuring real life usability.  The current main product is Clooz, a software program providing both data organization and analysis capabilities.

Clooz was originally developed by Elizabeth Kelly Kerstens, CG, of Ancestor Detective. In January 2012, Ancestral Systems acquired the program and has streamlined and enhanced its capabilities ever since.   Powerful new features were added such as the “Composite View” of people and documents, which lets the researcher explore how different people are associated with other people through the documents they were mentioned in. Information from documents of various forms can be extracted into matching Clooz data-entry templates, and then exported to family tree programs such as Legacy Family Tree (more on the way).   People listed in Clooz can be synchronized with those in other programs, and when a document is exported, Clooz transforms the information into events (birth, occupation, naturalization, etc.), allows you to add family relationships, and enters the source citation for each, all in one operation. Numerous Clooz users have commented how extracting the information from a document results in their finding new details that otherwise would have been skipped. These are just a few of the ways using Clooz improves your research.

Stop by booth 719, or visit http://www.clooz.com for more information.

New Features for Clooz Software