Overview

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced genealogist, Family Historian is packed with all the resources you need to build your family tree. The award-winning Family Historian genealogy software is a powerful, fully featured genealogy program like no other. With it's unique user interface, powerful wizards, configurable reports, powerful query engine and its 100% GEDCOM compatibility, Family Historian will have you creating superb charts, websites and CDs in no time. 

CREATE BEAUTIFUL FAMILY TREES

Getting Started
Family Historian comes with a Quick Start Guide, to get you started. There's also extensive, context-sensitive Help.

Easy and Fun to Use
With its innovative and visually-oriented user interface, Family Historian is not only easy to use but lots of fun. Quickly and easily enter all the information like family names, birth dates and places, marriages and deaths.

No Limits
Each user can have an unlimited number of spouses, children, sets of parents, pictures, multimedia, notes, source citations, etc.

Configurable Reports
29 fully-featured and highly-configurable reports include narrative reports, outline reports, summary reports, complete-record reports, the Family Group Sheet and more.

Excellent Support for Sources
Family Historian makes it easy to record your sources with its automatic source citations. Copy and paste citations from one event or attribute to another and see at a glance the sources of each item of data.

A Unique Merge/Compare Facility
Only Family Historian lets you compare any two GEDCOM files side-by-side so that you can see exactly where and how they differ, and how they will end up if you merge them - before you commit yourself to merging anything. Family Historian also supports both record and branch merge/compare.

Create Charts, Diagrams and Trees
Instantly create Ancestor, Descendant, Hourglass and Everyone diagrams, as well as Family Historian's very own All Relatives diagram.

• Diagrams are tightly intergrated into the way you work. Use them for browsing, exploring, editing and for creating superb wall charts. Print diagrams at any scale or orientation. Add trees, pictures, text, lines and retangles and even customise them. You have unrivalled control over the appearance and layout of all your diagrams.
• Smart Trees give you unprecedented control over your chart layout. Hide, show, move, resize and rearrange boxes and watch as trees automatically adjust themselves to reflect your changes.
• A Powerful and Sophisticated Query Engine. A 'query' allows you to extract whatever data you want from your family tree file. Family Historian comes with 39 standard queries, but you can easily create your own, to get whatever information you want from your own data.
• Events and Attributes. With Family Historian you can record full details of any events or attributes in the lives of the individuals or families in your project files. Family Historian comes with a large number of pre-defined events and attributes to select from or you can easily add your own events or attributes.

Features

WHAT'S NEW IN FAMILY HISTORIAN 4?

• Use the Focus Window to add relatives and move easily around your family tree. The Focus Window can display up to 9 pictures of the 'focus person' as well as pictures of other family members. If they have multiple spouses, ALL of their families with each spouse will be displayed together on one page.
• Improved Property Box. Now easier than ever before, users can configure, customise, move, resize or dock it. You can even choose any text size or font.
• Project management capability is now included. The program automatically looks after all your project files including pciture files and other multimedia, saved charts and more, in a dedicated folder on your hard disk.
• Multilevel undo/redo lets you make changes confidently, knowing that if you make a mistake you can easily undo it.
• A newly How Related tool shows up to 9 different ways that any two people are related. If not directly related it will try to show you how they are indirectly related to one another.
• Enhanced support for multimedia now offer thumbnail views to make browsing for pictures easy.
• Link pictures to events and attributes. Extensive filtering options make adding and searching for pictures a breeze. Support for pictures has been improved in reports, and there is an all-new Multimedia Report.
• Charts, reports and queries can all now be saved in PDF format.
• A new Export GEDCOM File capability, with numerous options, including the ability to export selected individual records only.
• Improved charts and diagrams including new more flexible alignment options for boxes. Text can now be any colour. Make better use of space with the new move within row/column option.
• Support for Fact Queries now allows you to create queries to search, filter and report on, any and all events and/or attributes in your project, using whatever criteria you like.
• Full support for same sex relationships has been added.

MULTIMEDIA & MORE

There is no limit to the number of pictures, sounds, videos and other multimedia you can add for each person.

Family Historian sets a new standard with its support for pictures and multimedia
In Family Historian, not only can you add as many pictures as you like for each person, you can add a picture once and link it to each person in the picture. You can even link each person to their own face in the picture, and show just faces in the diagrams without having to 'crop' your pictures. Family Historian is the only Windows family tree application to support this. You can display pictures (and faces from pictures) in diagrams and reports, and family tree CDs and websites.
You can also add sounds, video and any other kind of multimedia. You can even add links to other family tree files.

Create websites and family tree CDs
Creating superb and stylish websites or Family Tree CDs is easy using Family Historian's powerful wizards. You can omit all details of 'private' individuals, or show only restricted information about others.

100% GEDCOM
GEDCOM is the universal standard format for shared genealogical data. Family Historian is 100% GEDCOM compatible and 100% GEDCOM complete. '100% GEDCOM compatible' means that Family Historian can save all of its data to the GECOM format. '100% GEDCOM complete' means that Family Historian can load all records and fields from a GECOM file - if can even load other applications' extensions to GEDCOM.

ACCESS MILLIONS OF RECORDS

Find and search for information about your ancestors. Family Historian provides you with the necessary data to help you research and discover your family history.

Search
Family Historian's integrated Internet Search Tool allows you to search for your ancestors in websites across the internet.

Access
Family Historian includes a 90 day FREE subscription to WorldVitalRecords.com providing access to over 40 million quality Australian and New Zealand records, plus millions of records from selected UK and Ireland databases. Includes local, family and social history, government and police gazettes, electoral rolls, directories, newspapers, church journals, war records and more, much of which is exclusive to WorldVitalRecords.com.

Discover
Ever wanted to know how your ancestors arrived in Australia and New Zealand and how they lived? Family Historian offers a wealth of background material on three CDs:

• Australian Shipping: Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968, Version 9: 100,000 Australian and New Zealand arrival and departure entries including information not available from the Archive Authorities. This collection of shipping and passenger information includes over 140,000 unique references to convicts, passengers and crew, plus background material relating to shipping, newspaper articles, reports and much more.
• Australian Dictionary of Dates and MEN of the Time: The 'Men of the Time' part is a listing of biographies of men of note with connections to Australia. It includes their full name, date and place of birth, and a history of their occupation/s and as to why they are 'noted' now. The second part of this book is the Dictionary of Dates containing listings of topics such as Aborigines, Adelaide, Aquatic, Australian Agricultural Co., Caterpillar Plague, etc., followed by events as they happened in date order relating to each topic.
• Online Family History Resources: a collection of 200 of the best genealogy sites in Australia, New Zealand and around the world, plus useful tips to help you with your research. Access billions of records in National Archives, Public Records, Military Records, Census Data and much more. From tracing your long lost relatives to building your family tree, these sites provide a wealth of information.
• Stevens & Bartholomew's NZ Directory 1866-67: an important early directory of New Zealand including Wellington, Hokitika, Omaru, Picton, Auckland, Greymouth, Timaru, Napier, Dunedin, Invercargill, Akaroa, Tauranga, Christchurch, Bluff, Lyttelton, Onehunga, Nelson, Port Chalmers, Blenheim, Otahuhu, Wanganui and more. It also includes Runholders' Directory for four provinces, government appointments and advertisements from the New Zealand Yearly Advertiser.
  Family Historian's integrated Internet Search Tool allows you to search for your ancestors in websites across the internet.

BONUSES INCLUDED

Requirements

PC :
Windows® XP, Vista & Windows 7. 64MB RAM (128MB RAM recommended). CD or DVD
burning drive (software required to create family CDs/DVDs). Internet access for online
features. Web space is required if you wish to upload created websites to the Internet.