The information collected by the genealogical software includes:
For everyone:
Name
Birthdate
Birthplace
Mother
Father
Gender
For marriages:
Names
Date
Place
Date of divorce (if applicable)
For deaths:
Name
Date
Place
Widow/er
Features:
Some programs provide the facility of importing digital photographs. While others facilitate to create kinship charts. Certain programs provide flexibility of inputting additional relevant information and categories.
Research is on for incorporating the results of genealogical DNA tests.
Sharing of data:
Genealogy software allows to share the data in GEDCOM format with others using different genealogical software.
Genealogy softwares:
Windows
Ages!
Ancestral Quest
Brother's Keeper
Community Express
Family Historian
Family Tree Legends
Family Tree Maker
Genbox Family History
Genealogy Research Organizer
Genopro
GRAMPS
Heredis
Legacy Family Tree
LifeLines
The Master Genealogist
Personal Ancestral File
Precision Genealogical Tools
RootsMagic
WinFamily
Macintosh
Family
GEDitCOM
Gene (OS 9 only)
Heredis
LifeLines
MacFamilyTree
Reunion
SeeGEDCOMX
Linux
Genes
GRAMPS
LifeLines
PDA
GedStar Pro (Palm OS)
GedWise (Palm OS)
HandyTree (Palm OS)
MyRoots (Palm OS, Pocket PC)
Pocket Genealogist (Windows CE)
There are also some genealogical softwares for online searches. You can find information regarding your ancestry from these sites. You just have to provide them with some important information and these give you the results. So basically it acts like a search engine. You put your queries; they search for the relevant information regarding your query in their databases and give you the results.
Some online genealogical programs:
Amiglia
FamilyTrackers
GeneoTree
JotSpot Family Site
MyTrees Online
One Great Family
PedigreeSoft
TreeShare