Easy to Use Family Tree Software for Windows |
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Famtree
- Easy to Use Windows Family Tree Software
A brief introduction and some sample display/output from this genealogy program Click here to return to the Famtree Home Page
Getting your data into Famtree could not be simpler. If you are already using a genealogy program, simply export a Gedcom file from your current program and read it into Famtree. Famtree can read a wide range of Gedcom files from other programs, without the need for any re-typing. If you find a Gedcom file which Famtree won't read please ! If you are starting from scratch, you just need to fill as few or as many of the white boxes on the form shown on the right as you wish, for each individual that you wish to include. You then join them into family groups with a few clicks of the mouse, and you're ready to produce various charts and trees, or find out how the relationships between people in your file. Famtree comes with two sample files - a mythical 'Bloggs' family, and also a genealogy for Adam, taken from the Book of Genesis. The examples below are mainly from the Bloggs family! All tasks are achieved by using the Famtree toolbar, as shown below -
The first group of six buttons allow you to - start a new file; open an existing file; append one file to another; save your file; save just one branch of a family to disk; or exit the program! The main icons are for - adding a new individual; linking individuals to form a family; displaying a list in numeric or alphabetic order; saving an index of your data; finding out relationships; displaying traditional family trees, compact descendants charts, ancestry charts, and address lists (all of which can be printed or saved using the rightmost buttons). The last group of small icons are the Find facility; for chosing page content; for setting up your printer; adjusting the fonts and colours, and foreign name option; and for adjusting page setup - paper size, orientation, and margins. These actions are duplicated in the menu items. In addition, the menu includes 'QuickTutor' - a three part tutorial which takes you through using the program; a comprehensive 'Help' facility; and a simple facility to 'surf the web' from within Famtree. Below are a number of examples of Famtree screen displays and printed output, produced from the imaginary Bloggs family, included as an example file with the Famtree program. 'Janet Green (nee Bloggs)' has produced these charts using the default colour palette - she has highlighted her own details on the charts. This is the Ancestry (or Pedigree) chart for Janet's son Joshua Green printed using Times New Roman font. As Joshua's parents are first cousins he has 'duplicate' great grandparents.
The printed version of the ancestry chart is shown below -
Next Janet produced a Wide Family Group Display using her brother Fred as the subject - showing that there is still plenty more to find out about the 'Bloggs' family! -
Then Janet produced a Traditional Family Tree starting with her great grandmother Cath Snape, printed using Arial font (and with places of birth and death included, as well as dates). Janet appears twice on the tree as she married her first cousin, but her children are shown only once because Janet deselected 'show repeated families' before printing the tree.
Finally, the same tree can be printed in a more compact form, as shown below. As the printout is more compact, this time Janet chose to show repeated familes (so her children are shown twice). Janet chose Times New Roman font for this chart.
Although Janet knows that she has a lot more research to do, she decides to produce a Bloggs Family website - Famtree can do this automatically, so Janet just clicks on the correct menu items and produces the file - you can view it, just as it would appear if loaded on the web by clicking here (Note - with the site displayed, you can click on names to navigate around the site; I've added links at the top and bottom of the web page to allow you to return to here!)
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