If you want to know more about your past and your ancestors, there are many software and applications to find out who your ancestors are. It turns out that genealogy applications can help you greatly in your research to make your family tree. The Larousse dictionary defines genealogy as the “science which has as its object the search for the origin and the study of the composition of families”.
If most people’s genealogy is a hobby, but the stakes can be high for people who do not know their ancestors or in the event of an inheritance problem. “Many things would become clearer if we knew our own genealogy”, the writer Gustave Flaubert already told us. Choosing genealogy software is often a headache for beginner genealogists, Planet enlightens you on the subject by listing the best genealogy software.
Généatique is the reference software for genealogy in France. It is indeed the best known and used by beginner genealogists wishing to know more about their ancestors. It runs on Windows and has iOS and Android mobile apps. It is appreciated for the ease of understanding of its layout for users. It’s easy to access since the family tree remains perpetually on screen with a search box highlighted at the bottom of the screen. Généatique allows the production of a multitude of family trees with more than 100 different models. As reported by Futura Sciences, this software makes it possible to carry out a “search for people by family name, but also by place, by profession or by sosa number” (method of numbering individuals allowing to identify by a unique number each ancestor in ascending genealogy). According to Archimag, the application also has features to be able to add media. “You can associate images, sound recordings, video sequences with each person and each event”, specifies the site.
www.geneatique.com/
According to many sites, Heredis is one of the most popular genealogy software. This genealogy software available on Windows and Mac allows you to make family trees and by going “from document research to statistical analysis” to carry out an incredible investigation into the traces of your origins. To accompany you, the software offers you using an automatic assistant guiding the user through his first steps As Futura Sciences points out, “the software offers the opportunity to link different variants of the same name to adapt to changes in spelling over the centuries”. On the site, the software allows you to fill in surnames, first names, nicknames, professions, sexes, dates of birth and places of birth. Another advantage of this software is the possibility of “online publication of your genealogy in a few clicks”. The user in search of his past will thus be able to create a real site dedicated to his family and consultable by all.
www.heredis.com
This site of course allows you to create your family tree by consulting its database of 14 billion historical documents. Data that will allow you to update the branches of your family tree and which are available to you free of charge. You thus have a website, a mobile application and software to enrich your family tree. Archimag specifies that there is even a premium version which allows you not only to consult all the genealogical and historical data made available, but also to “be able to interact with other users of the software within the framework of a family relationship “. For an even more interactive experience, MyHeritage also offers the use of Deep Nostalgia software, which allows you to animate faces in photos.
www.myheritage.fr
Geneanet is actually a huge interactive French database that brings together nearly 4.5 million members and 1.5 million family trees. This site actually allows you to share and exchange a lot of genealogical information for free between members to find common people and thus enlarge the branches of your family tree. Hundreds of thousands of files are thus shared. The Geneanet site has two versions: subscribers and premiums. If you have a simple free version, it allows you to create your family tree. This is the premium subscription allows you to have new options such as consulting other sources using advanced search tools.
www.geneanet.org