You input all your data in Edit, of course, while View offers options for ancestor charts (called “Heritage Chart”), descendant charts, timelines, genograms, statistical reports, simple lists and summaries. You can drag and drop image files to add photos of your ancestors or even scans of your source material.įor the most part, MacFamilyTree also achieves the Mac’s renowned “ease of use.” Buttons switch between Edit, View and Publish modes. As you’d expect on a Mac, its charts and graphics are particularly attractive and flexible. MacFamily-Tree looks and feels like a real Mac program, not just software “ported” over from Windows. So Mac-aholics may be saying hosannas at the advent of Mac Family Tree version 4, a downloadable shareware program designed to make the most of the latest Mac OS X operating system.

But Mac lovers who are similarly addicted to genealogy have long suffered for their faith: Most genealogy software - including market-leading Family Tree Maker - run only on PCs (or on Macs running special PC emulation software). Macintosh buffs don’t merely like their computers - they share a near-religious zeal, in which PC users are heathens and Bill Gates is the devil. Family Tree Templates and Relationship Charts.

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