A steady performer and the recipient of a plethora of industry awards, Family Tree Builder (by My Heritage) takes our No.1 Choice award.With over 80 million registered users and offices all over the world, My Heritage, which we rate highly in our genealogy websites category, are certainly a genealogy service with global ambitions. Family tree maker helps to build stunning family charts and allows sharing them with family members and friends. It comes with best features like mapping family members and allows adding new family members like children, remarriage or stepchildren.
.Since 2003, the online website titled has made the creation of a digital family tree very simple for its users. By just starting simply with one’s immediate family (parents and siblings), their names and birth dates, a person can add additional information, photos, videos, records, documents, etc to build their family tree.The best part is that an individual can distribute their family lineage and hopefully connect with others who share a common ancestor. By linking to distant researchers a great deal more can be learned of grandparents, great uncles and cousins.The basic services are free to users and you are allowed about 250 relatives on each tree created with 500 MB storage of photos, videos and documents. Even creating the tree is made simple with a selection of fonts and tree designs to select from along with instructions. By having more than one tree, it helps when a person is also doing research on a spouse’s family, two different trees can be used.
There are also paid subscription upgrades which allows increased numbers added to the tree. Premium level allows up to 2,500 ancestors with 1,000 MB storage for $6.25 a month and PremiumPlus has unlimited number along with unlimited storage for $9.95 a month.To create a tree the free software used is Family Tree Builder.
Additional features can be added for a fee to create a more elaborate, detailed family tree. A good feature with the Family Tree Builder is that either offline or on their secure online site a person can build and add to the family tree.With a tree begun, MyHeritage has Smart Matching which will inform the user when anyone else has a similar or likely match to their own ancestors. This is the way to connect with previously unknown cousins or other relatives.However, MyHeritage is not only about creating family trees, but has also a vast database from multiple sources. There are over 5.7 billions records of different types available to help the researcher.