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Ocean asked in Arts & HumanitiesGenealogy · 9 years ago

family tree software for kids?

My husband and I have very large, complex families. Our son is starting to get curious about exactly who everyone is in relation to him, and I want to make a family tree to help explain this to him.

I have tried drawing it out on paper, but frankly it's just too frustrating, there are too many people, so I want a computer program to do it for me... but all the programs I see just make ugly charts for research purposes. I want something colorful and childish with pictures of his family members so we can print it out and frame it for him.

Hopefully someone here can help me out.

Update:

Is Legacy easy to use? It looks good, but getting the software and the add-on would be $70-ish, and that's quite a bit of money for me to spend on something without being able to try it out first.

Update 2:

And unfortunately the print-outs don't really work for me. There are a lot of nice ones out there but they don't normally have a space for birth families and half brothers.

Update 3:

"It is not something that children are included in"... why? Why, in your mind, can't my son be excited about his heritage? Why can't he take an interest in knowing how we are all connected? I agree that tracing our heritage back to Scotland is probably a bit beyond him, but that was never my goal. I simply want to map out the people he knows.

My father in law has half brothers, I have an adoptive family and a biological family, there are aunts and uncles that are just close friends of the family but have been referred to as aunts and uncles and included in family reunions for almost 50 years, and he's starting to ask questions about all of them.

A year ago he was happy just knowing that Aunt Danika (my birth mother's daughter) came to play with him sometimes. Now it's occurring to him that she's only 7 and all his other aunts are older than me. I want to be able to answer his questions, and I think this will help.

And nowhere have I mentioned dora

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  • 9 years ago
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    Legacy Family Tree has a charting add-on called Legacy Charting Companion that makes all kinds of fancy charts http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LCComp.asp

  • 9 years ago

    Genealogy is the study of direct ancestral lineage within biological families. The research is not something that children are included in. Legacy is relative easy to use, but charts are charts and there is no genealogy program I am aware of the created pretty charts that include extended family

    print - outs Legacy might include a print out now for additional marriages and step or half siblings. there is an additional that comes with it called legacy charting that allows some variations.

    You could contact the Legacy help line and ask,

    Most of the pretty charts you see, are for display purposes. as far as cost is concerned Legacy 2012, is available for as little as 29.99, which includes some features that the more expensive programs do not. If there is additional cost it is for private research sites, which at this point may be of no real value to you, You can access Familysearch.org at no cost and get the same type of records as Ancestry. Occasionally you may find copies of historical documents that will only appear on Ancestry if a member uploads it. There are several free website you can assess from home. Most public libraries have some subscription sites you can access, including Ancestry and the Family History Centers are dedicated to genealogical research. Locations are listed on Familysearch.org

    There is nothing like Dora the Explorer genealogy software for kids

    Source(s): Genealogical researcher 40+ years, volunteer librarian at local family History Center
  • 6 years ago

    RE:

    family tree software for kids?

    My husband and I have very large, complex families. Our son is starting to get curious about exactly who everyone is in relation to him, and I want to make a family tree to help explain this to him.

    I have tried drawing it out on paper, but frankly it's just too frustrating, there are too...

    Source(s): family tree software kids: https://trimurl.im/d19/family-tree-software-for-ki...
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  • Maxi
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Try this site it has a link to FH software for children and some Disney FH sheets http://familytimeline.webs.com/fhforchildren.htm and on the links page there are several other print off sheets

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