
Sierra Generations Family Tree Download And Quick.We are confident in recommending as a replacement for Generations and it has received several awards for being the best software available for Family History and professional genealogists. In addition to this the authors of a much newer program 'Family Historian have made a great effort to build into their program many of the best features from Generations and in our opinion have now come up with a product that is much better than Generations. However the program has become increasing more difficult to support and has suffered interference from many other programs over the last five years. Other programs in the past have never quite been able to match it, in all of its functions.

If you were planning to use Generations for the first time I would definitely recommend that you look at rather than starting with such an old program as Generations Generations has been a brilliant piece of software for genealogists and in all probability may have been the best program available for a number of years. The best location these days for finding copies of Generations appears to be eBay (If you wish to find the latest version be sure to look for images of the box/package and make sure that you see 'Broderbund' on it.Ĭlick below for instructions. There are no plans for any further development of the software beyond v8.5a and it's printing patch according to the latest information from.

has recently been acquired by, and the software lines continue to be available. Broderbund is selling two Generations software packages, Generations Family Tree package and the Generations Family Tree Plus and I have also seen these bundled into 'Value Packs' by Broderbund.

Broderbund produced and distributed the software for, but did not make any great emphasis on it at their website. They had contemplated closing it early in 2002 and then again in April 2003 Vivendi International, parent company of Sierra, sold the Generations software line to A&E, parent company of in the late spring of 2002. Vivendi is to be commended for keeping the website up for 2.5 years after selling the software line.
