When you can't photocopy information when your out and about use these extraction forms to fill in essential details.  .

Freehand

Doing it Freehand will give you license to produce your tree exactly how you want it.

However if you would prefer the computer to do all the hard work, change the layout at the click of a button, workout just who is your fourth cousin three times removed, add photos etc. you're going to need some software.

In the column on the left we have added some links to Free Software and Paid Software.  The choice is up to you.

Free Software Downloads

PAF  Software from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Use it on your desktop and Palm Pilot.  You can run the program in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, or Swedish.  Three different view screens, Family, Pedigree and Individual.  (Pedigree view shown below).

Genpro  With Genpro as well as displaying your family tree you can track your medical history. The purpose of diagramming your medical history is to show what genetic traits may have been passed from one generation to the next. This provides a view of your own medical history that's easily understood.  The free version shows adverts.  Upgrade to Genpro Gold to remove them.

Paid Software

There are now more software options than ever so we have replace the generic banners on the right with some useful links to Amazon in the UK, USA and Canada.

Genealogy Software from Amazon UK

Genealogy Software from Amazon USA

Genealogy Software from Amazon Canada Ancestry.com  Automatically search more than 1.2 billion names.  Free software from Ancestry.com.

Genpro Gold  Its the same as Genpro but without advertising.