Who’s your daddy? Everybody on earth has ancestors, and the study of who we are and the people we came from (genealogy) is currently one of the most popular pastimes, online and off. The internet has made it extremely easy to perform this research for free, with paid (subscription) options also available.

As you do this research, you will soon run into the problem of what to do with all the facts and materials you are finding (names, dates, images, articles, etc.).

That’s where Synium’s MacFamiyTree 9 comes in. Provided in both desktop and mobile format, MacFamilyTree/MobileFamilyTree not only offer you a platform into which to input your findings as raw data, but also do some incredibly useful things with those otherwise boring facts. (See the bottom of this page for what’s new in version 9.)

For instance, the screenshot above (in macOS Dark Mode) shows what you can end up with when enough people are entered into a family. This colorful presentation style is called a “fan chart”, and you can choose any person in your family tree and immediately get an attractive visual representation of that person’s ancestors on each side (mother/father). The further back into your family line you can go, the bigger this chart gets.

Another way to view a family is via a Descendant chart, as shown below, with the oldest members at right: