Genealogy Chat

Family tree maker can deal with just about anything. You can add other spouses and attach children to one parent but not the other, you can attch an adopted child to the family and mark the relationship as adopted.

Karen, You can put siblings and cousins in FTM, but if you want to show everyone on a tree you need yo do an All-in-One tree - you may need to right click the mouse in tree veiw and alter the number of generations you can see. Most software work on similar lines and even mixed trees (ancester and decendent together) you end up with an hour glass shape.

Do any of these allow for lots of siblings? I have FTM but it only follows direct line, I want to show all my little twiglets, plus the cousins that married!

thanks for the nudge Lunar, just adding my name til tomorrow when i have time to fiddle around....MOE!

Sue If you pay a monthly charge for the internet: dial-up or broadband, you didn't ought to have to pay any extra to download the program unless you are on a restricted hours dial-up and do it outside the permitted times.

Re. the PAF. Just download fron the LDS site rather than fight your way through a hugh address.

Sue, I don't know as I don't use a modem (use a high speed lan - similar to broardband). I think it would depend how your internet connection is charged, if it's by time then you probally would pay same with download limits. But cheak with your ISP. Genviewer lite, is quite easy to use and shouldn't take too long to download. I have had it for years and update it when I need to, I find it easier to use it sometimes as apposed to a package I paid for.

Just had a peep at the family tree one and it says it takes about 45 minutes to download to your computer, at a dial up connection, does that mean that even if we pay monthy for the internet we are still charged? Sue

Genviewer Lite (this is a gedcom reader only it cannot build a tree ) www.mudcreek(.)ca LDS paf file www.ldscatalog(.)com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001& categoryId=7000000&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=100069&level=2&bcname=Software%20 Downloads%20-%20Free&top=Y&resetCat=N&replBC=subcatlist100069&retURL= Free Family Tree Maker Starter Edition www.familytreemaker(.)com/Download/Starter.aspx Bygones http://home.utah-inter(.)net/bygones/ Legacy Standard Edition www.legacyfamilytree(.)com/ GenoPro www.genopro(.)com/?ReferrerID=ancestorsearch

Here are some peices of Software that can be down loaded to create family trees. Please feel free to add some more. Remove brakets from around the dots and pleas note some addresses are on more than one line. *********************************Please Delete Nudges!!!!!!************************************ n.b. As far as I can tell all softwear is permanently Free, it websites do not say otherwise.