My Family Tree is a powerful genealogy application that lets you create and manage family trees in a both fast and easy manner. Though it offers a lot of handy additional features and functions, the interface of My Family Tree is really intuitive. The program is easy-to-use even to complete beginners. Furthermore, it makes the created family trees look really interesting and it makes this entire genealogy matter captivating even for people like me, who weren't interested in such things before. Features like the support for interactive charts and statistics also contribute to this, as well as the fact that My Family Tree also lets you add photos, stories, biographies, and all kind of data for every person of a family tree.
My Family Tree can also transfer data using the GEDCOM file format, which means that it can be used not only for recreational and entertainment purposes, but for actual academic or scientific research that requires sustainable proofs and evidences compatible with all kinds of devices and apps. GEDCOM is a universal file format for genealogy data and is supported by numerous genealogy software, so transferring data between My Family Tree and other apps can be done with ease.
I also that this handy tool can generate customizable reports of the stored genealogy data. It also supports comprehensive family statistics, printing directly from its interface, mapping, privacy settings, or cool additional tools like a relationship calculator which can detect disparities in the genealogical trees or other issues.
Cutting long story short, My Family Tree is a really impressive genealogy tool and the fact that it's also completely free, despite its numerous cool features, makes it even more appealing.
v5.0 [Nov 21, 2015]
- Added custom ids for people.
- Added options to exclude different types of text from spell check.
- Added option to change primary birth and death fact.
- Added navigation mini map to charts.
- Added caps lock warning to password prompts.
- Added relationship editor with integrated events.
- Added global citation editor.
- Added global facts editor.
- Added support for event witnesses.
- Added support for Windows® 10.
- Added support for ultra high definition 4K displays.
- Added kinship report.
- Improved source editor.
- Improved story editor.
- Improved place editor.
- Improved multimedia editor.
- Improved multipage printing.
- Improved handling of engagement event.
- Improved connect existing person control to allow changing relationship modifier.
- Improved formatting of imprecise dates.
- Localisation settings can now be changed without restarting the application.
