Pedigree Forge brings together everything a serious family historian needs — stunning charts, properly-sourced reports, and a workflow built around accuracy.
Create stunning, traditional family tree charts with options like drop-line pedigree, ancestors, and birth briefs. Tailor your charts to meet your specific needs, from simple family layouts to detailed multi-generational pedigrees.
User Benefit: Impress your clients, colleagues, or family members with beautifully designed, professional-grade family trees that visually communicate the intricate details of your research.
Generate in-depth reports that not only include ancestor details but also embedded charts, timelines, source citations, and transcripts. With options to include indexes and references, you can create comprehensive, polished reports for clients or personal projects.
User Benefit: Produce professional, referenced reports that showcase your research in an organised, visually appealing format—perfect for sharing or publishing.
Browse the web seamlessly from within Pedigree Forge using an embedded web browser powered by Microsoft’s WebView2. Research genealogical records, archives, and online sources without ever leaving the software.
User Benefit: Save time by keeping all your research tools in one place. No need to switch between applications—access online sources directly from within Pedigree Forge.
Easily enter family history information such as events, children, and life details. See changes reflected visually in real-time within your charts, ensuring your family trees are always up to date.
User Benefit: Experience a smoother workflow with real-time updates, allowing you to focus on research while ensuring your family tree remains accurate and current.
No need for external applications—Pedigree Forge includes a fully integrated word processor, making it easy to draft reports, write detailed family histories, or document findings all in one place.
User Benefit: Streamline your workflow with the convenience of an integrated word processor for all your genealogical writing needs.
Attach images—such as photos, scans of documents, or historical records—directly to people and sources in your family tree, providing visual evidence for your research.
User Benefit: Bring your family history to life with rich visual content that enhances the documentation and storytelling of your ancestors’ lives.
Run audit reports to check for inconsistencies, missing information, or logical errors within your database. This feature ensures that your data remains clean and accurate.
User Benefit: Gain confidence in the quality of your research by running regular audits to catch any mistakes or missing details, helping maintain professional standards.
Save time on data entry with auto-completion for various fields, including British place names, occupations, and common names, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
User Benefit: Increase efficiency by reducing manual entry errors, allowing you to focus on the bigger picture of your family history research.
Use built-in templates for common British genealogical sources, such as censuses, General Register Office (GRO) certificates, and parish registers. These templates simplify the process of adding new records and ensure consistent formatting.
User Benefit: Simplify the recording of British records with ready-made templates, ensuring all important details are captured accurately and consistently.
Pedigree Forge includes a built-in GB English spell checker to ensure your written content is error-free, tailored specifically to British spelling conventions. However, we recognise that genealogists often have to transcribe historical documents that contain misspellings or archaic spellings. To help with this, Pedigree Forge allows you to flag words to be ignored during spell checks without adding them to the dictionary. These flagged words will be underlined in magenta, clearly indicating that they were transcribed exactly as found in the original document.
User Benefit: Ensure your transcription work is accurate while maintaining a professional standard for modern text. With the magenta underline feature, you can easily distinguish transcribed spellings from errors, making your reports both faithful to historical sources and polished for modern readers.
Easily import or export GEDCOM files, making it simple to transfer your data from other family tree software or share it with collaborators.
User Benefit: Integrate your data with other genealogy software or share your findings with family or clients using the de facto GEDCOM format.
And much, much more, with new features too!
Curious about the architecture, file formats, scripting and everything under the bonnet? There’s a dedicated page for the technically minded.
Technical Information