There are several animal pedigree
programs on the market, mostly for PC. Two that have excellent reputations are
BreedMate and Pedigrees2020. I use BreedMate as well as an Access database I
designed myself, for keeping track of cat pedigrees. I have also put cat
pedigrees into Family Tree Maker, but the software made for animal peds is
much more efficient.
If you do a Google search for pedigree
software you'll probably find both of the above plus many others. Both
BreedMate and Pedigrees2020 have web sites and demos you can download and play
around with.
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: a*@comcast.net
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:26
AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] pedigree
tree for iris
That program sounds interesting. What is its
name?
Francesca
----- Original Message -----
From: c*@cherylleigh.com
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 6:41
AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] pedigree
tree for iris
A pedigree program for animals might
work better. You wouldn't necessarily have to enter individual siblings
from one cross (rather you could treat them as "litters" or test
matings) and it wouldn't have any trouble with the
inbreeding.
The only problem might be in cases
where an iris is fertile both ways. An animal program wouldn't want the
same "animal" to be a "sire" and a "dam". The software I use does allow it
but it gives me a message asking if that's really what I
want.<G>
Cheryl
----- Original Message -----
From: p*@our-town.com
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006
10:20 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] pedigree
tree for iris
There has been some discussion of how to get a pedigree for
irises on paper. I decided to try it on a genealogy program for making
(people) family trees. It's not easy. The program isn't happy with all
the inbreeding <grin>. But it's possible. Here is a chart I made
using Earl of Essex. I'm not sure I have all the information correct and
I know there are numbers for all the sdlgs that I have listed simply as
seedlings. I used the date of birth to enter the year of introduction
and the place of birth for the hybridizer's name. For flowers that
rebloom, I added re after the name of the hybridizer. I haven't yet
added family members to the same "parents" so I don't know how that
would work. You might have to treat them all as individuals or you might
end up with one being his own grandpa. The family tree maker might have
a problem with creating the tree in that case.
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