The Organizer is another plus, helping you merge individuals, change and resequence family relationships (move a child forward or backwards in the sequence of children, for instance). (If examples like the last one aren't an issue for you, that's not a problem - you can tell Visual Family Tree Maker exactly what to check.) The Verify tool examines your tree and reports on a host of possible problems: names are all upper/ lower case, people were married after they died, children have been assigned their mother's maiden name, and so on. There are various graphical views of your tree (regular, pedigree, ancestors, more), clicking any individual displays their details, and you can view these, edit them or add others as required. It's very cluttered, buttons and boxes everywhere, but the basic principles aren't difficult to understand. Open the sample GEDCOM file RoyalPets.ged and Visual Family Tree Maker appears. Just unzip the download and run VisFamTree.exe (or VisFamTree.jar).

Unusually, the program arrives as both a Windows executable and Java file, neither of which requires installation. Visual Family Tree Maker is a freeware application for building, researching and presenting your family tree.

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