Where does the data come from? You can enter it yourself. The data could be information you know yourself, or you acquire by interviewing your relatives.

You can also merge in data that you have found on the Internet or acquired by other means from other genealogists. In this way you built up a collection of records for Individuals and Families, and store details of events and attributes relating to them.

Importantly, Family Historian makes it easy for you to also record exactly where all the information came from (your Sources). But you don't just store facts.

Family Historian lets you keep pictures of Individuals and Families (and Sources), as well as video, sounds, and other multimedia.

Using the genealogy data you have entered or acquired (and associated pictures, etc) Family Historian will instantly create for you any of the following: reports, charts and diagrams, queries (to analyse your data, or to extract portions of it to transfer to other programs), websites, family tree CDs.

You can easily share output from Family Historian with family members, friends and other genealogists. If you wish, you can also share your family tree data files as well.

This is because Family Historian uses GEDCOM as the format in which it stores its data. GEDCOM is the global standard format for shared genealogical data and all serious genealogy programs support it (although the extent to which they support it varies considerably).

Here are some key features of "Family Historian":

Unrivalled Support for Charts and Diagrams:
· Instantly create Ancestor, Descendant, Hourglass and Everyone diagrams, as well as Family Historian's very own All Relatives diagrams. Diagrams are tightly integrated and used for browsing, exploring and editing - as well as for creating superb wall charts. Print diagrams at any scale or orientation. All diagrams are fully configurable and most options can be changed on-the-fly.

The All Relatives diagram:
· Unique to Family Historian and greatly enhanced really does allow you to view all your relatives (including in-laws) in a way that looks great and is easy to understand. Relatives of the same type (all first cousins, all second cousins, etc) are laid out in the same row; so you can read off how people are related, from the (optional) row labels.

· Diagrams can be saved as files, and you can work on them, and add to them over time. You can add as many trees as you like to any diagram, and link them. As well as getting Family Historian to show pictures in boxes, you can also add additional pictures (and additional text, lines and rectangles) to diagrams, and place them wherever you like. Diagrams can be saved in 9 different picture formats.

· You can create your own custom diagram types, using any existing diagram as a template.

Smart Trees:
· Family Historian's smart trees give you unprecedented control over chart layout. Hide, show, move, resize and re-order boxes and watch as trees automatically adjust themselves to reflect your changes. Click on buttons to expand or close any branch on any diagram, and, again, the diagram will automatically adjust to accommodate the change.

Pictures and Multimedia:
· In Family Historian, not only can you add as many pictures as you like for each person, you can add a picture once and link it to each person in the picture. You can even link each person to their own face in the picture, and show just faces in diagrams without having to 'crop' your pictures. Family Historian is the only Windows family tree application we know to support this - and yet it is really an essential feature if you wish to work with pictures. You can display pictures (and faces from pictures) in diagrams and reports, and family tree CDs and websites. You can also add sounds, video and any other kind of multimedia. You can even add links to other family tree files.

100% GEDCOM:
· GEDCOM is the universal standard format for shared genealogical data; but applications vary significantly in how well they support it. Family Historian is, we believe, unique in being 100% GEDCOM compatible, and 100% GEDCOM complete. '100% GEDCOM compatible' means that Family Historian can save all of its data to the GEDCOM format. '100% GEDCOM complete' means that Family Historian can load all records and fields from a GEDCOM file - including other applications' extensions to GEDCOM. You might think that 100% completeness is the least you should expect; but it is not what you usually get. We know of no other application that comes close. Other family tree applications simply discard records and fields that they cannot load. Some will tell you when they do this. Some won't.

Create Websites and Family Tree CDs:
· Creating superb and stylish websites or Family Tree CDs is easy using Family Historian's powerful wizards. You can omit all details of 'private' individuals, or show only restricted information about others. You have extensive configuration options if you want to use them; or you can just use default settings and still get great-looking results.

Internet Search:
· Search for your ancestors in websites across the Internet using Family Historian's integrated Internet Search tool.

Highly Configurable Reports:
· Family Historian comes with 28 fully-featured and highly-configurable reports (not including query-based reports - see below). These reports include narrative reports, outline reports, summary reports, complete-record reports, the Family Group Sheet and more. All reports can be saved as web pages or as word-processor documents. A wide choice of options are provided for the display of pictures (and captions), and sources. You can create custom reports using any existing report as a template.

Excellent Support for Sources:
· Where did you get your information from? Family Historian makes it easy to record your sources with its automatic source citations. Also invaluable is the ability to copy and paste citations from one event or attribute to another. Family Historian's Property Dialog is designed so that you can see at a glance the sources of each item of data without have to 'drill down' to another level.

A Uniquely Powerful Merge/Compare Facility:
· Only Family Historian lets you compare any two GEDCOM files side-by-side so that you can see exactly where and how they differ, and how they will end up if you merge them - before you commit yourself to merging anything. You have complete control over the merge process (and can tweak or override any aspect of it). You can see at a glance, exactly which records will be updated, which will be unaffected, and which will be new (i.e. have no match in the current file). This is file merge/compare.

A Powerful and Sophisticated Query Engine:
· A query allows you to extract whatever data you want from your family tree file. For example, you could use a query to get any of the following information: what were the ages at death of X's ancestors in the 19th Century? what boys names have been used by the descendants of Y? who are your relatives and what are the 5 closest ways that you are related to each of them (if you are related to them more than once)?

Easy and Fun to Use:
· With its innovative and visually-oriented user-interface, Family Historian is not just very easy to use - exploring and working with your family tree data has never been more fun.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A new hub component window called the Focus Window, with views for spouses & children, parents & siblings, ancestors and descendants has been added. It is designed to make adding relatives and moving around a family tree, completely intuitive and easy. The Focus Window can display up to 9 pictures of the 'focus person', as well as pictures of other family members. If a person has multiple spouses, all of their families with each spouse, are displayed together on one page.
· The main data entry window - the Property Box - has been reworked so that it too is now easier than ever to use. Users can configure its appearance, customize it (even add custom tabs to it), move it, resize it, or ‘dock’ it to the side of the application window. And you can choose any text size or font you want.
· Project management capability has been added. The program automatically looks after all your project files for you (including picture files and other multimedia, saved charts and more) in a dedicated ...