Use Program Tools to help Understand your Family History and Create a Genealogy Tree

Ancestry programs are filled with features and tools that can assist you to build and understand the data that you have, as well as important facts that you might be missing.

Date Calculator

You can use a date calculator to figure out when an event occurred.

There are many uses to find beginning and ending dates when it comes to genealogical data. Many old documents recorded events in years, months, and days. Some death certificates still record a person’s age at death this way.

Examples of using a Date Calculator:

• If someone was married on June 12, 1900 (end date) and was 20 years and 9 months, you can calculate when they were born (start date).
• If you find a headstone and someone was born on February 5, 1919 (start date) and died May 6, 1995 (end date), you can calculate the number of years, months and days that person lived.

Relationship Calculator

Being able to figure out the relationship between two people in your tree is very helpful in understanding how they are related. Our tool describes the relationship, as well as, draws how the relationship is established between the two people through a visual diagram.

Map your Ancestors and Descendants

Maps can help visualize where your relatives were born, married, died, are buried, purchased land, and much more. You can plot your information manually or use our built-in mapping application. Currently our genealogy program helps you to see where your relatives were born.

Progress Rating Tool

You can easily analyze your family history genealogy data with our unique progress rating chart that is setup to track the facts that are important to you!

You can see your progress for each person after you set up your criteria, add, and rate sources. This helps you to easily discover where you need to do more research!

Visualize your Progress for 5 Generations at a Glance!

We have a unique chart that helps users see where they need to do more research. For the first time genealogists will easily gain a sense of 'the big picture' of where they are and what they should work on next within their tree. We have incorporated a color-coded reliability and progress indicator to indicate the completeness of your family genealogy history.

Check out how our source rating calculator works.
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Download and Print

Charts help to visualize your ancestry with various reports and lists that you can create from your genealogy history. All reports can be printed or saved as excel, pdf and some can be saved as images. Below is a list of our reports that can be found in the program under the Analysis tab.

A Chronological list of Ancestors by Generation

Descendants are listed in a chronological order, in columns, for each generation. This helps the user to see the information for each person in a linear fashion. You can view up to 9 generations.

Visualize your family History in a Bow Tie

The focus person is in the middle, and the maternal side is on the left and the paternal side is on the right. Some programs will graphically show it in a top and bottom view, instead of a left to right view. (Thus turning the image ninety degrees).

Photo Tree Adds Pictures to see your Ancestors

It is always nice to visually see a person, put a face with name and view details that you have for people in your family tree. Our photo tree is for three generations and can be printed out on one sheet.

Pedigree Report for your Family History Genealogy

Pedigree starts with your focus person, and their ancestors are listed to the right. The father is on the top with his parents and the mother is on the bottom with hers. If you roll over the Green arrow, you will see marriage information for that person. People with profile photos are shown as a small icon of a man or woman. Roll over the image to see the photo of that person.

An Ahnentafel Family History Report

Ahnentafel is a German report that follows a specific numbering system showing the details about a person, and their immediate relatives. Our report also includes sources for each person, as well as a photo of the starting person, if you have included one for their profile.

Get the Details about your Family History

A Family Fact Sheet Includes details about the husband, wife, and their children. Our report includes any notes, and sources for each person listed in the report. This sheet can give an indication of what information you have for an ancestor, and use it to see gaps for missing information.

Our Robust Individual Report is a Great Research Tool

This report helps users to understand what information they have for a person. It includes events, parents, spouses, and children. It gives the details of your sources, media, notes, and tasks. This is a valuable report to take with you when doing research, or discussing your ancestor with a relative.

Keep track of Anniversaries and Birthdays

Our anniversary report lists the husband, wife, when and where they were married, as well as the number of years.

A birthday list can be created for the month or for everyone in your tree. Print a report for the month as a reminder to send out a birthday card.

Related Descendants are Listed in a Report

The descendants report captures names, birth and death details, and the relationship of each descendant in the report. Another way to visually see relationships between related people is by using a relationship calculator.

Capture Family Member Details

This is a list of everyone in your tree with the same information as the descendants list, but also includes a few more fields. You can choose to filter this report with Advanced Search features. You can use this list to help with managing the information that you are missing.

Print Reports for your Media

Keep organized with your media files by printing out a list of all the photos you have for everyone in your tree, or by web album, or for a specific person.

Keep a Log of your Notes

Print out your notes that you have for each person or everyone in your tree. With our program you can even add attachments to your notes!

Analyze your Sources to See what Information you Have

Each source that you add to the program can be printed as a whole, or for an individual. You choose which fields you want to add to your report.

Tasks can help you Stay Focused with Your Genealogy History Research

Keep track of the tasks you have created by adding information, notes, and prioritize your most important ancestors. From the Home Tab, you will see reminders for your tasks that are overdue, due in the next 30 days, and today.

Capture Possible Genealogy Errors

When building your family history in a genealogy program, you can really see all the information you have and easily update your data. Like anything, errors can be made when typing or transcribing information.

This report captures 16 unlikely birth, death, and event information errors as a result of typing incorrect names, dates, or missing data. Our report helps the user to understand what unlikely information they have, so they can make corrections or find missing family history genealogy information.

Monitor the Changes to your Genealogy File with our Audit Trail Report

With our genealogy program you can see the changes that you and your contributors have made. This helps users to understand who made what changes to your files.

Backup and Recall your Genealogy History File from a Prior Day

If you have had someone make changes that you don’t agree with, you either edit or delete the changes. We can also restore your data. This can be done for the last two days.

Build your Genealogy Family History and View File Statistics

With our program, you can see what ancestry information you have accumulated in your files. It tracks general ancestry family data as well as statistics on who lived the longest, the ancestor with the most number of children, marriage statistics and more.

Subscribe today and start building your family history today utilizing our online genealogy program features and tools.