Free Family Tree Software
This time of year always seems to encourage a sudden burst in genealogy activity - I have made three solid new contacts for my tree in the last couple of weeks and am looking forward to making a few steps further back on the CURD line and a completely new start on the GRANT tree on Sue’s side.
For anybody just starting out, the standard advice about talking to living relatives still applies but you may also find it useful to start building your tree using your PC. Interesting to see that the highly regarded “Family Tree Legends 5″ software is now available as a free download here. FTL has a feature lacking from many other solutions - it also allows proper storage of DNA info for individuals whereas most of the other packages insist on using the notes field.
FTL will of course allow import from and export to the standard GEDCOM files but interestingly it also imports directly from Family Tree Maker data.
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