NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom, 2010/01/06 - Family history enthusiasts now have an alternative way of viewing their family tree. This new approach displays relationships in an intuitive way, even handling complex relationships such as multiple marriages and marriages between cousins with ease.

Family history enthusiasts now have an alternative way of visualising their family tree. This new approach enables you to see marriages, siblings, cousins in an intuitive way, and even handles complex relationships such as multiple marriages and marriages between cousins with ease.

By laying out the individuals and their relationships in three dimensions, many of the limitations of the standard two-dimensional ancestor or descendant charts are overcome.

3D Tree Viewer is a free Microsoft Windows-based application that will work alongside practically any genealogy software provided it can export a GEDCOM file.

In addition to being a powerful visualisation tool, the 3D Tree Viewer application can also point out potential errors in your data that may not otherwise be readily found. Because the 3D Tree Viewer lays out the family tree along a Time axis, it has the ability to infer approximate dates for life events even where they may not be directly recorded. Using this information, it can, for example, check that each individual's life dates are likely to be consistent with their immediate relatives.

The 3D Tree Viewer is by design a read-only application - that is to say even if it identifies a problem with your data, you will need to correct it within your master genealogy software. In this way there is no risk of two sets of data getting out of step.

3DTree (3dtree.org) was established to implement the vision of being able to bring a family tree to life by using established web based standards such as X3D to draw out tree. The project was initiated at the start of 2009, since when various approaches to laying out a family tree in 3-dimensions have been evaluated prior to arriving at the current approach.

Written by / Agency / Source: 3DTree

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