Award-Winning Desktop Family Tree Builder

Welcome to Family Historian at RootsTech 2025! Unlock your family story with Family Historian 7.

  • Easily create interactive charts and diagrams for your family tree
  • Add pictures, sounds and videos to bring your story to life
  • Store your data offline securely and privately
  • Perfect for beginners and experts alike
Two screengrabs of Family Historian 7. One is the chart view and the other is the focus window.

Introducing Family Historian 7


Reviews & Awards for Version 7

TopTenReviews rates Family Historian 7 best family tree maker overall in 2024.

GenSoftReviews Users Choice Award, 2022 (12th year in a row).

PC Pro review of Family Historian 7, May 2021. 

FAQs

Yes. Family Historian supports the latest version of GEDCOM (version 7), and also supports the media file format (GEDZIP) that was introduced as part of version 7, for both import and export.

Family Historian 7 incorporates a range of new features, many of them requested by our user group.

  • Integrated word processing
  • Customisable source template library
  • Source transcription tools
  • Language packs and multi-language output
  • Improved diagrams and reports

Click to learn more about what’s new in Family Historian 7.

You can import your data directly from Genbox, Legacy, RootsMagic or the Master Genealogist. Or you can import a GEDCOM file. For more details, please see Importing Data into Family Historian