XY Family Tree

XY Family tree is a free genealogy software program that helps you navigate your ancestry and relatives - parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, distant cousins, other ancestors and descendants. The program stores and displays your family tree data on your home computer and, optionally, that data can also be placed in your own folder on the XY Family Tree website to display your family tree charts in various views on the Internet. See the Medici family tree used as an example. You only need to know the closest relationships of people - either parents or siblings - and the program works out all the other relationships.

This free family tree program is fully featured and able to display pictures, sound clips and most types of media, both on the PC and on the web. You can create links to all sorts of external files. The program will link all members sharing the same media. For instance, a photograph of a family wedding can be used to link all the people shown in the picture. Similarly you can link a group of people by a sound clip or video file. See the XY Family Tree concepts.

GEDCOM 5.5 files can be imported to get you started. This is especially useful if you have already done some family tree research using another family tree maker. XY Family Tree isn't constrained by the many tags used by GEDCOM, instead, apart from the essential fields to contain names and connections, it uses freeform, searchable text to give maximum flexibility. Just use the GEDCOM import feature. If you want to convert your GEDCOM file to HTML or just see your GEDCOM file on an Internet website, you can do it here.

To see screen-shots of XY Family Tree in action please take the tour. The screen-shots can’t really do justice to the ease of navigation and simplicity of this program; it really is an easy to use, simple family tree program.

XY Family Tree gives you genealogy and pedigree chart software for free.
You have nothing to lose - no adverts, no nags, no spyware - this is an easy to use, clean genealogy program. You don't even need to register to download it.