However, doing this the right way implies a considerable time-investment from your part, unless you use a specialized application such as Ahnenblatt. There’s no better way to discover your heritage (and preserve it for that matter) than by creating your genealogy tree. The interface is intimidating and Visual Family Tree Maker's reports aren't impressive, but there are some useful tools here and you might want to run it alongside your regular genealogy software. If you're an experienced researcher with an hour to spare, give the program a try, see what it can do for you.Ahnenblatt: An intuitive application for managing genealogy data providing the ability to generate graphical trees and reports The program has a range of reports on offer, and it can even build a basic website to share your data online, or via a disc or other local storage device. The Organizer is another plus, helping you merge individuals, change and resequence family relationships (move a child forward or backwards in the sequence of children, for instance). (If examples like the last one aren't an issue for you, that's not a problem - you can tell Visual Family Tree Maker exactly what to check.) The Verify tool examines your tree and reports on a host of possible problems: names are all upper/ lower case, people were married after they died, children have been assigned their mother's maiden name, and so on. There are various graphical views of your tree (regular, pedigree, ancestors, more), clicking any individual displays their details, and you can view these, edit them or add others as required. It's very cluttered, buttons and boxes everywhere, but the basic principles aren't difficult to understand. Open the sample GEDCOM file RoyalPets.ged and Visual Family Tree Maker appears. Just unzip the download and run VisFamTree.exe (or VisFamTree.jar). Unusually, the program arrives as both a Windows executable and Java file, neither of which requires installation.

Visual Family Tree Maker is a freeware application for building, researching and presenting your family tree.

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