Here is a list of 14 free trial genealogy software that you can download and try for a limited period of time with all basic and advanced features.
Genealogy software helps you build your ancestor, research, organize, create reports and charts, make printouts, search through the database, connect to popular family tree online database, share via social media, etc.
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Legacy Family Tree
Legacy Family Tree is one of the best genealogy software built in with lots of advanced features and tools. It lets you make a family tree. The software comes in two editions: Standard and Legacy Deluxe. The Deluxe edition includes all 98 advanced features.
Features of Legacy Family Tree
- Makes different charts in color (descendant charts, genealogy chart, picture family chart, wall charts, pedigree chart, DNA charts)
- Generate several kinds of reports includes a location index, book reports, chronology view and report, timeline reports, location report
- Include new SourceWriter that help you cite your sources easily and correctly
- Automatically pinpoint and plot important locations using Microsoft Bing Mapping
- Embed pictures in an RTF generated file
- Allows you assign sources to a group of individuals or marriages at one time
- Record DNA marker test results from different companies
- Add your favorite internet search sites
- Makes footnotes, endnotes, bibliographies, general, research and medical notes
- Locate records that may contain information about your ancestors
- Compare two files for duplicates
- Select single or multiple reports and combine them into one large book report
- Attach any document to individuals and marriages
- Let’s you backup you family file and multimedia files
- Include powerful searching tool
- Include 3million+ geo location database
- Support for multiple page tif file
- Source citations to individual never married, couple didn’t marry and couple didn’t have children
- Generate PDF files from different previewed reports
- Includes New picture center where you can view a list of pictures and individuals side-by-side
- Allows you create many groups of individuals and marriages
- Copy one or more source citations right to the source clipboard
- Include ToDo clipboard for quick playback on individuals
- Remembers that last ten locations that you have used
- Include index view which displays all the individuals’ information including record number, full name, sex, birth date, death date and place
- Include relationship calculator, global spell checking, distance and bearing calculator, event clipboard, calendar creator, birthday and anniversary reminders, etc.
- Include Master location list mapping, master location, maintenance and save your places in master lists
- Specify and source child-parent relationships and more features…
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 Vista, XP and 2000
Website: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com
Ancestral Quest
Ancestral Quest is one of the best genealogy software comes with basic and advanced features that lets you create your family tree easily. This family tree software is designed for both beginners and advanced users. The software comes in two editions: Basic, which is free and Premium.
Features of the software
- Create your family tree
- Provides unlimited spouses per person, children per family and parents per child
- Support linking to genealogy databases, such as Ancestry.com and FmailySearch.org
- Record relationships as married, not married, common law, de facto
- Record titles, name, birth, death, burial, custom ID, cause of death, physical description, current address, contact information for each person
- Unlimited other events for each individual
- Document family history, store data, record unlimited notes for each individual and family, print images, record DNA test results
- Store photo, audio clips, video clips, combine photos and audio, attach sound to each picture
- Store scrapbook items locally or on the internet
- Supports exporting/importing using GEDCOM
- Synchronize your data with internet based databases
- Create different charts and reports including Pedigree charts, family group sheets, ancestry charts, descendant charts, genealogy book reports, birthday and anniversary calendar, LDS ordinance reports, Different Lists, etc.
- Organize researches using To Do items, Log Reports and organize tasks by type, location, etc.
- Supports reviewing your information
- Allows you to research on the internet – compare data with familysearch.org, filter search on LDS Ordinances, direct search to worldvitalrecords.com and create your own link to any internet search site
- Includes additional tools such as, Date calculator, relationship examiner, Translate into any language, Auto Generate ID numbers, Merge (Individuals, sources, repositories, citations), Change log, Backup and restore database, Split database, etc.
- Allows you to take Ancestral Quest with your own flash disk or any other removable drive
- Print to printer, to PDF file, text file or MS Word
- Supports searching through your family tree
- Compatible with PAF 5 full database and more features
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 Vista, XP and Mac OS X
Website: http://www.ancquest.com/index.htm
GenoPro
GenoPro is genealogy software that allows you draw a family tree quickly. The software is easy to learn and use. After creation of your family tree, the software displays a complete representation of your genealogy tree.
Features of GenoPro family tree builder
- Draw and create family trees and family pedigree
- Allows you to see both ancestor and descendants at once
- Uses genogram to represent family tree
- Insert unlimited pictures for each individual and family
- Create family album CD
- Generate detailed reports in different languages and reports can be printed or published on the web
- Includes standard copy, cut, paste, zoom in /zoom out tools
- Supports drag and drop
- Includes advanced features – table layout, internet hyperlinks and Unicode
- Provides structured information and group by place of birth and death, history of education, job, contact information, family types and marriages
- Support unlimited number of children per family and number of pictures
- Includes dates from 0001 AD to 9999AD
- Can create up to 1 million individuals per .gno file
- Offers free online backups of your genealogy data
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 Vista, and XP
Website: http://www.genopro.com/
Heredis
Heredis is cross-platform family genealogy software that allows you mange any genealogy. It includes a powerful search tool for online archives. Also Online version of Heredis is available for web based genealogy users.
Main features of Heredis family tree creator
- Visualize your family in three different angles
- Views extended family as whole: siblings, remarriage, stepchildren, step brothers and sisters, etc.
- Shows the movement of a whole family on migration map
- Search and retrieve online archives (departmental and municipal archives, military records and libraries) without leaving the software
- Enter data anywhere – add a child or grandfather directly, enter the whole life of a person
- Include huge variety of family tree charts such as ascendant, descendant, and designed tree charts
- Allows you navigate through a tree chart and show the ancestry and descent of a person on the same tree chart
- Capture acts and associate with your genealogy
- Shows ancestors on interactive maps
- Has strong data entry control mechanisms – data entry is permanent, automatic text formatting and text input predictive
- Works from any device and synchronize data
- Provides customized data entry ways
- Supports unlimited persons, items, notes, events, sources and witnesses
- Re-number the entire file when root person is changed
- Share events for several participants and create witnesses for each event
- Equipped with all text formatting tools
- Includes automatic calculation of dates and ages
- Include smart search assistant and search wizard targeted to sites Heredis Online, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and Family Search
- Display the number of generations of your choice
- Memorize different family branches with ancestors and descendants
- Comes with additional tools including photo tool, photo editing, find relationship function, duplicate data entry finder and data consistency checker
- Support the 6 indexes for carrying out research, navigation through the genealogy and make changes
- Supports GEDCOM file import and export
- Creates illustrated photo album for your genealogy
- Displays the details of information on Sheets and generate modular reports
- Customizable and user friendly interface
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, Mac, iPad and iPhone
Website: http://www.heredis.com/
RootsMagic free trial genealogy software
RootsMagic is among the best genealogy software that allows you research, organize and share your family history. The software comes in two editions: RootsMagic Essentials and RootsMagic. RootsMagic Essentials is available for free and you can try premium edition for a limited time.
Main features of RootsMagic
- Support Backup and restore your files to CD, Drop box, Google drive
- Create dynamic websites and CSS styled websites
- Include pedigree view, family view, descendant view, people list view
- Automatically search online for records using WebHints
- View editable timeline and share events among multiple people
- It is portable – can run flash drive
- Link family members automatically when adding people
- Shows all information about a person in a single window
- Dialogs are resizable to edit and search information
- Open multiple databases on screen at the same time
- Supports drag and drop between databases
- Creates named groups of people and add links to websites attached to people
- Add unlimited people, events/facts, notes, sources and more
- Track multiple relationships
- Support DNA test recording
- Include search features such as Explorer, search by name, record number, etc., find text in any record, search and replace, search based genetic lines
- Print your data to any printer, save reports to PDF, RTF and Email
- Produce several types of reports, charts, scrapbook, albums, wall charts, Lists, To-Do List, WebTags List, LDS Ordinance list
- Support publishing your family history – to online, make sharable CDs, complete books, notes, charts, photos, index and more
- Include research features – research manager, gensmarts integration, To-Do list, correspondence Log
- Export charts to JPG, EMF and other similar graphic formats
- Attach documents, photographs, sound clips, video clips, to any person, family, place, source or event
- Include addition tools photo editor, media tagging, Spell checking, live spell checking, thesaurus, date calculator, pop up calendar, soundmax calculator, map people and places, relationship calculator, country check analyzer and explorer, data clean and compare files
- Features merging
- Documents your information and add sources
- Add notes and stories to any person, fact, etc
- Compatible with PAF import, Family Origins Import, Legacy import, family tree maker import, GEDCOM
- Support full LDS and more features
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP and Mac OS X
Website: https://www.rootsmagic.com/
MyHeritage
MyHeritage is one of the popular genealogy search database with billions of records online. It also offers Family Tree Builder software that provides rich features and functions that enables you to create family trees. Family Tree Builder comes in two editions: free and premium. The premium edition includes additional advanced features. In order to use both editions you need to sign up for free.
Main features of MyHeritage software
- Auto sync with your online family site, setting and family tree, Synchronization is secure and encrypted
- Create genealogy project or import GEDCOM file or load existing genealogy project
- Produces a variety of printouts, charts and reports including book reports, family group sheet, relationship report, ancestor report, descendants report, etc
- Include Smart Matches tool that allows you to match people in your family tree with people in other family trees
- Merge information from any matched family tree into your own family tree
- Handle photos and other multimedia – add, annotate and mark faces in photos, documents, video and audio files
- Share your family tree with family members and friends
- Performs data consistency checks
- Privatize various types of information such as people, notes and facts
- Include additional tools such as Deceased people checker, To-Do Tasks, etc
- Export family tree builder data to Excel spreadsheet
- Provides powerful research tools that enable you to research families
- Manage information about places in your project and view this on an interactive map
- Manage sources and repositories
- Support multiple languages, Unicode, virtual keyboard
- Backup a project
- Restore a project from Backup or online family site
- Has helpful user guide
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP
Website: https://www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder
WinFamily
WinFamily is easy to use genealogy builder software built in with all functionalities that any genealogist demands. It is designed in WinFamily 6.02 genealogy software. You can try the software for 21 days.
Main features of WinFamily
- Creates family tree
- Record every detail of every person in database
- Attach pictures, sounds, films and other multimedia with every person and event
- Create profession suns and trees
- Support click and drag into family tree
- Create fully indexed, linked web pages automatically and share your genealogy
- It is multi language
- Provides Automatic backup
- Compatible with GEDCOM file import and export
- Produce several types of printouts: Family group, family book, Indexes, name lists, etc
- Allows you to design your own printouts
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP
Website: http://winfamily.com/
Brother’s Keeper
Designed for Windows Brother’s Keeper is a genealogy program that helps you manage your family history information. The software is simple and comes with basic tools and functions.
Main features of the genealogy software
- Input and organize family history
- Generate over 30 different reports and charts
- Enter names, notes, standard and custom events
- Attach pictures to events and sources to events
- Provides note area for each person
- Print standard charts, multi-page ancestor charts, 9 generation wall chart, descendent box and tree charts, a book with an index, custom design lists, time line, birthday and anniversary list, family group sheets with pictures
- Output your genealogy book in Rich Text Format
- Search and find by name, number, and partial name
- Compute relationships
- Supports GEDCOM file import and export
- Provides instructional videos
- Each Brother’s Keeper file holds 100 million names
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Vista
Website: http://www.bkwin.org/
Family Historian
Family Historian is an award winning genealogy software packed with both basic and advanced tools. You can try the family tree software for 30 days with all its functionalities.
Main features of Family Historian
- Create charts and diagrams including ancestor, descendant, hourglass, wall charts, fan chart and everyone diagrams (include 22 standard diagram types)
- Diagrams are easy for browsing, exploring and editing
- Has its own All Relative diagrams which allow you to view all your relatives
- Include smart trees and control over chart layout
- Add pictures and link people to faces in pictures
- Display pictures in diagrams, reports, family tree CDs and websites
- Add sounds, video and other multimedia
- Make discoveries easily with automatic internet data matching
- Integrates internet search tool that helps to search for ancestors in websites and display in the Web Search Window
- Store search results win Easy Web Clipping
- Include Map Window where you can locate all the places and events, and track changes over time
- Create websites, family tree CDs and DVDs, Books and booklets
- Include highly configurable reports, including narrative, outline, summary, complete record, family group sheet and more
- Include Automatic Source Citation Pane that makes easy to record your sources
- Compare and merge two GEDCOM files side by side, split a family tree into parts
- Include Backup and Restore facility
- Allows you to extract whatever data you want from your family tree using Query Engine
- Include predefined events and create your own fact types
- Record as many witnesses as you like for any event or attribute
- View extended family timeline facts, including birth, marriage, divorce, death, parents, siblings, spouses, children and grandchildren
- Include How Related tools that shows how people are related
- Insert notes and documents about each individual in the family tree
- Supports Unicode and accent characters
- Fully compatible with GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMmunication)
- Include additional tools such as scripting tools, Find Tool, Find and Replace Tool,
- Unlimited number of spouses, children, sets of parents, pictures, multimedia, notes, source citation, etc
- Multilevel undo/redo capability
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Vista
Website: http://www.family-historian.co.uk/
Genbox Family History
Genbox family history allows you create, research, store and organize your family genealogy history. It offers all the genealogy tools you need to have your family history.
Main features of Genbox Family History
- Organize your family genealogy
- Produce charts, including ancestor, descendant, Hourglass, box charts, wall charts, fan charts, convergent and more
- Store genealogical data, pictures and multimedia files and linked to related items
- Print charts to any printer
- Save charts in JPGE or PNG format and share on web pages
- Generate 16 types of basic genealogy report types
- Present related data in different views and background
- Autocomplete entry data – on date, place and name
- Store and link events to multiple personal names and identifiers
- Include a powerful search system that helps you find individuals
- Group individuals and other data items into name lists
- Cites multiple sources and store each fact or assertion separately
- Divides source citation into three levels
- Incudes source citations on all charts and reports
- Compatible with GEDCOM file format – to transfer data to/from other genealogy software
- Export and import all data using GEDCOM or GDB
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Vista
Website: http://www.genbox.com/
Mac Family Tree
Mac Family Tree is full featured genealogy software design for Mac. It helps you explore your family history and discover your origins and ancestors.
Main feature of Mac Family tree
- Create and edit unlimited number of family trees
- Enter data and research your family tree
- Capture and visualize your family history
- Produces different types of printable family tree and configurable reports, charts, Lists and virtual tree 3D view
- Synchronize data via iCloud
- Supports GEDCOM – create, append, export, or import a GEDCOM file
- Include interactive family tree which can be navigated, edited or add persons directly
- Conduct research using online genealogy archive with billions of records
- Create websites and family books
- User definable name and data formats
- Include database maintenance tools
- Print or share them as a PDF
- Available in 14 languages
- User definable event, fact, and label types
Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan or Mac OS Sierra
Website: http://www.syniumsoftware.com/macfamilytree
TreeDraw
TreeDraw is a genealogy program which allows you to create family charts from family trees. The software imports family trees from Kith and Kin Pro databases and enables you to edit the tree in the program.
Main features of TreeDraw
- Supports GEDCOM files
- Store, print or create a PDF family tree file
- Import and combine descendant and ancestral trees from one or more data files
- Maintain a link between each chart text element and source field
- Place graphics such as lines, boxes, circles, pictures, clip-art, diagrams, etc into the charts
- Add extra text, notes, titles, etc
- Provides full control over fonts, color, size, shape and alignment
- Support searching through the chart
Compatibility: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP
Website: http://www.spansoft.org
Reunion for Mac
Reunion is the other genealogy application that helps you to document, store and display information about your family.
Main features of Reunion
- Enter and record information about your family (names, dates, places, notes, sources, pictures, sounds, etc)
- Shows family relationship in graphic form and link people and families
- Add pictures, movies, documents, and create slideshows
- Sync with your family file on Mac using Reunion Touch that works on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
- Upload and share on websites or Dropbox
- Built in with advanced multiple-criteria search tool
- Search web for records such as FamilyLink, FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, etc
- Create different kinds of charts: – pedigree, descendants, fan charts, timeline charts, etc
- Generate reports, family tree books and lists
- Create and print attractive family group sheets, questionnaires and blank genealogy forms
- Include additional tools such as Birthday and anniversary reminders, autocomplete, source documentation
- Full GEDCOM import/export compatibility
- Pinpoint your place entries on Google Maps
- Identify relationships
Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 or newer
Website: http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/whatisreunion.php
Family Tree Heritage
Family Tree Heritages allows you to search for ancestors and create your tree easily. It imports records directly from FamilySearch and build your family tree.
Main features of Family Tree Heritage
- Find your ancestors and create your family tree
- Allows you to share your family history
- Support searching billions of records with 1 click from the software
- Search Ancestry.com directly from the software if you are a subscriber
- Create colorful trees, different charts, Four-color fan charts, Lists, calendars, reports, Scrapbooks and family books
- Includes additional tools such as interactive research timeline, Tags, color coding to ID generations, GenRelationship Examiner, GenCollaboration, GenResearchManager, GenSourceCitation, MapQuest Locator, Birthday Calendar, Anniversary calendar
- Include advanced management reports – duplicate individual list, unlinked individual list, database comparison list