Planting Artificial Family Trees

Genealogy J. Works well, and you can import and export trees in the standard GEDCOM file format.

 

I've tried looking for them and...never had much luck. Everything cost money, had limits, or put stuff in a format that wasn't very future-proof. What I've had luck with is using "smart art" in Word. Here is a screencap of part of the tree I made and how it looks "in text." There's ways to do it top-down and to have weird little spurs, too. You type things into the pane and use tab/shift tab to go left/right for each "layer" of the tree. You can also change the colors of the boxes, make the boxes different shapes, bold/italicize/format the text. This is a feature that's been available in word for a really long time, so it's not going to go anywhere anytime soon. Since you have weird things like people from the future and test tube babies*, I don't think a "regular" family tree built for the real world will give you the options you need. But since smart art isn't meant to do this, it's meant to just make graphics for business stuff, you can make it fit what you need.

*idk how you're defining this. I am a "test tube baby" in the literal sense but that doesn't make me weird, different, or otherwise screws up my family's genealogy. But if you mean that this is a person that was made without 2 genetic donors and were otherwise cloned/engineered, then maybe use a different term? In Brave New World they used "bottle baby" since the fetuses were grown in bottles so they could be "conditioned" to thrive in certain conditions and to factory-ize the production of humans.

 

Look into mind-mapping software. There's a few good online ones for free. I think you can do something like what Chasejxyz suggests in them as well

 

Mind mapping is a way of organising information in diagramatical form. It can be a very powerful tool, but its way more than you need to draw a family tree. There are some very good mind mappoing software packages out there, thoight they're mostly not free, but if you're not very technical then they're likely to be too complex for you. As I wrote above, I'd use family tree software for what you're trying to do, and I'd suggest Genealogy J.

 

i use worldanvil to keep score of my family trees in fantasy

 

I cannot comment on their efficacy but these are available for free I believe:

Family tree creator.
Family Echo - Free Online Family Tree Maker
Fantasy Family Tree | Editable Family Tree Template on Creately

Hope they help
C

 

Free, but you get extra stuff if you pay. And it can be done for literally any genre, but it is geared slightly more towards Fantasy.

 

People can see articles and family trees and whatnot that you publish, and read about your world.