After you have found most of the members of your family, identified the and have documents that prove that they are members of your family, it is time to find the family tree software.
There are many free and for sale on the market. It depends on what you want your family tree for and what are your hopes for this tree. Some people want to just a small program that will allow to organize and store information that they have found and verified. Free is good and this is free software.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the last days, the giant of the genealogy field, created of the ancestral file personal. He was always free to use and adequate for a small tree. However, now the Church does not support the program. With the field growing of genealogy, your program must be constantly updated. You can always download this file and it may be appropriate to your needs. It is a good starter program, but it has drawbacks such as the inability to attach photos and the ability to book.
Personal ancestral file is not fancy, but it can graphics of pedigree and family group sheets, which are essential to use when starting. The program also import and export a GEDCOM, a program that allows you to export your data to another program. Since all your data should show the source where you found the
information, the program is adequate work here, also.
If you want to use this program to create maps, you can download the companion of personal ancestral file for a reasonable price.
RootsMagic Essentials is the next step in the PAF. He has a little more power and automatically connect the members of the family. It checks for duplicates, which is useful if you have a large number of members of the family of the same name. Many people use and recommend this program. I do the didn't use.
Another free program is legacy 7.5.0.46, a program recently built. I've downloaded the previous version of this program and appreciated so I just downloaded the new version. Heritage uses Microsoft Virtual Earth to see the pictures of the places where your ancestors lived.
Another good feature of Legacy is the ability to create graphics ancestor, descendant, fan, and the hourglass showing your family. It is easy to cite your sources with the models produced by inheritance. I was careless with citing sources, so I'm excited to try this.
Legacy offers the possibility to get a web page and you can use it to stay in touch with family members and seek their input. Tabbed screens allow you to see a family, view pedigree, seen from the index view and a top-down view. It is useful to see the family both in these points of view.
My Heritage released family tree Builder 5.0, a free program that supports 35 languages. It is easy to use and beautiful graphics. Photos are easy to join and uses facial recognition. You are able to publish your family tree. More than 17 million people have downloaded this program and the site has many positive accounts. I have not used, but really like the looks of it.
New businesses are trying to muscle genealogy market. Get free downloads offers non-trial. You really want a good free program for your family tree is a secure site where you can store and organize your data and an easy to use program. You want to also produce and print maps and photographs that show your ancestors and their descendants, and that will help you to write a family history.
Elizabeth Larsen did research on his family tree for 35 years. For more information about the beginning a good genealogy and many good plans, go to http://www.squidoo.com/basicgenealogy