The program also provides the guidance for novice genealogists starting their search through both the program's resources and the Internet. An excellent tutorial walks newbies through each step of researching and recording their family history. Generations Family Tree also makes it easy to produce charts of your family tree. There may be cheaper genealogy shareware available, but you won't find any that produce such wonderful visual representations of your family tree. An included program called Easy Chart makes it simple to create pedigree, descendant, and hourglass charts.
Timelines are a cinch.
With all of Millennium's various charts, you have full control over the size, placement of objects, and the overall look of the charts. Snap Shot, another included program, can be used to easily add photographs and graphic elements to any of your Generations' charts. This program can even help repair and restore precious old photographs. Adding wonderful backgrounds and images to portions of your family tree chart is fun with the popular clip art feature. SierraHome's direct competition in this market is Broderbund's Family Tree Maker.