Generations allows users to pass along the historical data, family trees and reports they have compiled to other family members by copying the information to disks. The CD-ROM also has an ancestor overview feature that offers an easy navigation shortcut to a person's great-grandparent. I was able to circle the names of my twin cousins in yellow so they stood out among their four siblings. The interface in Generations offers users a chance to illustrate, in different colors, the status of children in a family.

So, listing immigration and naturalization as events for my grandfather Morris locked me into those topics for his great-grandchildren, too. And while it allows a user to customize the events to list for an individual, that new format for events is then included Generations has a slightly rigid format: it identifies each family member as half of a married couple in the basic record screen.

2 Family Tree Aids Build on a Basic ApproachĮnerations Deluxe and Family Tree Maker Deluxe Edition 3 are basic programs with similar templates for entering data and share most of the features of Family Heritage