The Best 17 Personal Ancestral File Alternatives

  • Gramps

    Gramps is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional cross-platform genealogy program, and a wiki open to all. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Legacy Family Tree

    Legacy is a full-featured genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history.

    Freemium Windows

  • Ahnenblatt

    Ahnenblatt is genealogy software for Windows. (Use Portable Version for Linux with Wine) Designed to manage your genealogy data and to generate reports and graphical trees.

    Free Windows Linux

  • GenealogyJ

    GenealogyJ is a genealogy program, suitable for hobbyist, family historian and genealogy researcher. GenealogyJ supports the GEDCOM standard, and offers many views like family tree, table, timeline, geography and more.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ancestris

    Ancestris is a free software suitable for all genealogists. It is available on all operating systems. It strictly respects the GedCom 5.5 and accepts 5.5.1 standard as it directly writes all information into the Gedcom file.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku Self-Hosted

  • GenoPro

    GenoPro is easy to use genealogy software to create family trees and genograms.

    Commercial Windows

  • Genoom

    Genoom is a web application for families. With Genoom you can create your family tree and build your own private family social network and stay in touch with family members all over the world.

    Free Web

  • Simple Family Tree

    Simple Family Tree enables you to create and/or view a family tree. It displays ancestors and descendants of any selected individual (it reads and writes files in Gedcom format).

    Free Windows

  • GeneoTree

    Geneotree is an open source web-based genealogy application developed in the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database. It installs on Linux and Windows and works natively with GEDCOM files. It makes a variety of reports as PDF files.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Genealone

    Genealogy website builder. Create your own genealogy website or publish any genealogical content online.

    Freemium Web Self-Hosted Wordpress

  • Family Atlas

    Family Atlas is the fun and easy way to map your family history! Trace your ancestors migration around the world and pinpoint the sites of important family events.

    Commercial Windows

  • Family Historian

    Family Historian is a family tree program offering great diagram facilities. It was praised in particular for its ability to enter data directly from diagrams and for its multi-media capabilities.

    Commercial Windows

  • RootsMagic

    RootsMagic Family Tree Software - Smart Computing Magazine calls RootsMagic 'the best genealogy program we've seen'. Free trial version.

    Commercial Windows

  • Ancestral Quest

    Ancestral Quest (AQ) family tree software is the easiest to use and most versatile genealogy program for Windows on the market. Its format is perfect for the beginner and yet powerful enough for the most advanced genealogist.

    Freemium Windows

  • GENViewer

    GENViewer is a Windows-based application that is used to view and analyze GEDCOM, PAF, TMG, Legacy, RootsMagic and Family Tree Maker 2006 and previous versions genealogy files.

    Commercial Windows

  • Behold

    Behold' is a fast GEDCOM reading utility that presents the GEDCOM in a very useful Everything Report. You can easily reorganize the families any way you want. All indexes are included in the report.

    Commercial Windows