WinGeno

WinGeno is a straightforward and intuitive software application that enables you to create family trees. It provides you with some basic options that are easy to figure out.

As long as you have .NET Framework and Windows Installer set up on your PC, you don't need to install anything else. This means that you can save the app files in any part of the HDD and just click the executable to run WinGeno. More importantly, it doesn't modify the Windows registry configuration.

The user-friendly interface consists of a regular window with a clean and intuitive structure, enabling you to put together a new project by inserting males and females into the family tree.

You can establish relationships, enter a person's name, age, birth and death, re-arrange the persons in the family tree by moving them with the mouse cursor, cut, copy, paste and delete objects, mark unborn children for two selected persons, create text boxes, or draw freely with a pen to mark persons living in a community.

The font can be customized. It's also possible to align symbols to the grid or hide the grid, undo and redo actions, save the genogram project to file and resume it later, print it and configure printing settings, as well as export the family tree to an image file with the .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .png or .tif format, depending on your preference.

We haven't come across any stability issues throughout our evaluation, thanks to the fact that WinGeno didn't freeze, crash or display error messages. As we expected, its impact on the overall performance of the computer was barely noticeable, since it needed low CPU and RAM to work properly.

On the other hand, it's not as feature-rich as other applications dedicated to family genealogy building. Nevertheless, WinGeno is approachable and can be accessed even by inexperienced users.