Free Genogram Maker

Free Genogram Maker is a lightweight and easy to understand piece of software that was developed to offer you an accessible method of creating your family tree, allowing you to go as far as four generations down the line of your ancestry.

The application features a clear-cut and intuitive appearance, making it simple to handle, even if your experience in working with computers might be limited.

The start screen of Free Genogram Maker enables you to open an existing family tree from a previous session or start a new one, by inputting the name and other details of your base person.

To begin with, you need to define the base person, meaning the person around which you will be building the tree. Aside from their name, you can also enter a picture, select their gender and choose a birth date, even a date of death, if applicable.

After pressing the ‘Create’ button’, Free Genogram Maker will generate the basic structure of your family tree, allowing you to begin inputting the ancestors and descendants of the base person from the context menu.

As such, you can add the person’s father, mother, spouse and children, specifying their basic information on each occasion (name, DOB, photo, gender). From the ‘Orientation’ menu of Free Genogram Maker, you can opt for ‘Vertical’ or ‘Horizontal’ layout of the family tree, depending on which makes most sense to you.

However, the utility does not support adding any other details about your ancestors, such as documents from their lifetime, stories, medical history, or similar data. Free Genogram Maker simply builds a schematic structure of your family tree which you can save to PNG format.

In summary, Free Genogram Maker is a useful albeit rather limited program that can assist you in designing your genealogical tree, all while requiring a minimal level of effort on your part, outputting the result to image format, so you can further work with it.