Genealogy

I explored My Heritage and compiled part of my family tree. The site scores highly for ease of use and clarity of layout. But on the whole I preferred the flexibility and range of options offered by the Geni site.

I had a lot of fun creating a family tree for Louis XIII of France, using Geni. I chose him so I could make sense of all the early seventeenth century intermarriages between the royal families of France, Spain and Great Britain.

It was easy to insert images from Wikipedia. The only thing I haven't managed to figure out is how to link a person on one side of the tree to the same person who appears on the other side. In my tree the marriage of the cousins, Louis XIV and Maria Theresa, appears twice.

http://www.geni.com/tree/index/6000000002797845159