Brother's Keeper (software)

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| name = Brother's Keeper

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| developer = John Steed

| released = {{Start date and age|1988}}{{cite web|url=http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Brothers_Keeper/ |title=Brother's Keeper (original website) |accessdate=2016-04-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19961220112520/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Brothers_Keeper/ |archivedate=1996-12-20 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tmfile.com/mark/?q=771586866 |title=trademark: B BROTHER'S KEEPER (serial no. 77158686), Mark First Use Anywhere|date= November 22, 1988}}

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| latest release version = 7.6.1

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|12|13}}[http://www.bkwin.org Brother's Keeper]

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| operating system = Windows

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| language count = 20

| language footnote = [http://www.bkwin.org/version6.htm Languages available for version 6.6]

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| genre = Genealogy software

| license = Shareware

| website = {{URL|www.bkwin.org}}

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Brother's Keeper is a genealogy software program for Windows.{{cite web |title=Brother's Keeper 7.0 |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2477328,00.asp |website=PC Magazine |accessdate=31 October 2018}}

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 GEDCOM specification for exchanging genealogical data.{{cite web |url=http://www.bkwin.org/features7.htm |title=Brother's Keeper Features |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |publisher=John Steed |accessdate= December 29, 2015}}

Brother's Keeper used Btrieve as the underlying database engine before version 7.[http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0006B&L=GEDCOM-L&P=R209&I=-3 Subject: Re: GEDCOM to Access/Paradox conversion ???] From:Xavier Van Dessel - GEDCOM-L Archives -- June 2000, week 2 (#6)

Brother's Keeper has an email list for user support.[http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/BK.html BK mailing list]