Family Tree Pilot

Family trees are a great way to gather and organize information on your relatives and ascendants, either for a school project or for personal use.

A nice genealogy software that can help with just that is Family Tree Pilot. It's easy-to-use and it lets you print the project for others to see.

The first thing that you need to do after launching Family Tree Pilot is to create entries for your family members. Type in their names, birthdays and gender, you can also attach a picture to each entry to make the entry more personal.

Profiles can be edited later, so you'll have time to gather information on your relatives. Next, you'll need to create families, link spouses and provide the marriage date.

Details on children also need to be provided and you'll carefully need to attach their profiles to families, so that the tree is correctly organized. All information provided can be edited later and viewed in several charts with persons, families or children.

You can arrange items by first or last name and birth date. Families are identified by the husband's first name, but it would have been nice if it had a column mentioning last names also, so you could better differentiate between them.

Use simple drag and drop actions to arrange persons on the family tree, the software solution doesn't do that automatically. It links persons based on their family connection and spouses have different colors for connection lines.

There's the option to arrange persons by ascendants, descendants, pictures and person's text. You can resize icons or enlarge the tree using the bar at the side of the screen. It automatically saves information and when the tree is ready, you can print it with the tap of a button.

It's a nice and intuitive genealogy software packed with all sort of neat tools. It comes with some bugs, but none that would interfere with its main functions.