App: Infinite Family Tree Explorer
Developer: Jerome Seydoux
Genres: Productivity, Education

An innovative companion app for exploring, analyzing and printing extremely detailed and exhaustive family tree charts (ancestors or descendants) from your EXISTING genealogical database, with a compact representation of an unlimited number of generations, without sacrificing the amount of information displayed for each person.

• import your EXISTING gedcom database from your favorite genealogy software or website; this companion app does NOT provide the ability to create or modify a database, to ensure the integrity of your data
• trees can display dozens of generations, showing all the dates, places, events, occupations, descriptions and notes associated with individuals, as well as their siblings and remarriages, and still fit on a few standard pages
• exclusive detailed timeline built into the tree
• powerful filters to add colored labels according to flexible criteria: country or region of origin, number of children, age at death of parents, religion…
• automatic collapse and highlight of implex branches (redundant branches that appear when distant cousins have married)

Traditional family tree charts are nice when displaying 3 or 4 generations, but require dozens and dozens of pages for only 5 or 6 generations.

Thanks to Infinite Family Tree Explorer’s unique algorithm, you can now get a compact tree showing 5 or 6 generations on a single A4 or letter page, or hundreds of people spanning dozens of generations, on a few pages. And even thousands of people spanning millennia on just 20 or 30 pages!

Revolutionary timeline! Each person can be graphically positioned on the tree according to their exact year of birth, and a graphical bar can be drawn to represent the time they lived, with optional marks for each event: marriages, births of children, etc. You can now instantly visualize those who lived long enough to see their great-grandchildren grow up, and those who never even had the chance to know their own offspring; or those who gave life from the dawn – or till the dusk – of their adulthood; or those who were mowed down in their youth during the war years… Directly in your ancestor or descendant chart!

Incredibly powerful filters: visually flag individuals who match flexible criteria, such as those who were born, lived or died in specific countries or regions, or those who have lost both parents in childhood, those who married more than twice, or those who died in their 20s during the war years.

Flexibility: choose which information to show, hide or highlight; collapse some branches to focus on specific individuals or families; highlight the path between selected distant relatives…

Implex support: in many families, some people marry distant relatives, resulting in duplicate branches on the tree. Perhaps your maternal great-grandfather was the second cousin of your paternal great-grandmother? This means that the full branch of their common great-grandparents should appear twice in your ascending tree… but Infinite Family Tree Explorer automatically detects this, collapses the duplicate branch, and draws a dotted line pointing to the remaining branch. This dramatically simplifies the family tree of royal families, where this happens repeatedly and recursively!

Smart ordering: when a few branches go up to some glorious distant ancestor, while most of the branches are cut off, a traditionally ordered tree can become very tortuous; the smart ordering algorithm keeps your tree graphically balanced, harmonious, and easy to navigate.

Release notes:
- added more advanced options to the filters
- improved user interface by adding some tooltips
- minor bug fix