- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: January 21, 2003
- Total Downloads: 35,078
- Downloads last week: 5
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you enjoy building your family tree and sharing it with others, you'll appreciate GreatFamily. The tree-building portion can be a bit awkward. You can connect people to their spouses or either parent, but there's no sibling or child link. The marriage link offers a Divorce variable, but not a Widowed one, and you can enter the date for only one end point (wedding or divorce).
Nonetheless, with a little assistance from the Help file, you can knock out a tree with records for your entire family. Each person's record can contain biographical data, such as date and place of birth and death. You can annotate further with pictures, occupations, and the source of the information. You even can import standard GEDCOM (GD3) or GenDesigner files.
However, it's page-building where GreatFamily shines. The Reports menu lets you format your tree as a clean Flash page with pop-up information or an attractive set of framed HTML files. You also can create Word 2000 or text reports through that menu, or export the whole thing as a GEDCOM file. All this takes little time and few system resources. Genealogists and families who want to share their tree can benefit from GreatFamily.
Publisher's description
From GreatProgs :Graphically design your family tree and generate Web pages in a snap. This program approaches family-tree making from the user's point of view.
Freely design your family tree using nothing but the mouse. Navigate, zoom, and get the complete image of your family tree. You can create image galleries for each person or family in your tree. Share the tree with your friends and family. You also can easily create your family chronicle using the Microsoft Word report generator. You can print the tree or any part of the tree exactly as you designed it, as big or as small as you like.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 9 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: GreatFamily 2.2.2
Pros: nothing
Cons: I am not sure how this is software for creating family tree. All the options are adding boxes with names and links towards other boxes. It does not put any meaning to it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GreatFamily 2.2.2
"Very disappointing, I urge you to try something else."
Pros: It has the basics covered. Adding family members is easy as is linking them all together.
Can add photos and create galleries for each person.
Fully functional trial with good time limit.
Cons: The user interface is neither aesthetically pleasing (looks very dated) nor does it help with functionality.
The way it lays out the family tree is very poor. Just looking at the example is enough to give you a headache. The boxes for each person are fine, it's the endless array of lines that's the problem. Instead of one line connecting parents and then another connecting children it has a line from each parent to every child! Very messy and not easy to look at, let alone work out 'who belongs to whom'.
It lacks many features which other products provide making it a rather basic application.
Navigation around the tree is somewhat annoying - there are arrow buttons on the screen that move the field of view, or there are the arrow keys. The addition of scroll bars would have helped.
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Version: GreatFamily 2.2.2
"Couldn't install the software (Windows Vista)"
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: GreatFamily 2.2.2
"Great product for family tree web page generation."
Pros: It is easy and intuitive to use. It only took me a few seconds to figure out how to use it. It allows you to add photo slide shows of ancestors. It generates beautiful, fully functional web pages quickly.
Cons: The only downfall is it lacks the large volume of reports/books of other products. But if you want to share your history through webpages this is the product.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: GreatFamily 2.2.2
Summary: A good value product.
One would add many missing features, but as a whole - it does what it said it would.
The web feature is great - yet, size consuming - See all 6 user reviews Write review
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