Do you have presidents, patriots, nobles or notables in your family tree? Find out with the American & European Family Forest Odyssey Edition. Like previous versions of Millisecond Publishing's Family Forest products, this CD-ROM takes information extracted from historical, genealogical and biographical reference books and weaves it into a lineage-linked database. The Odyssey edition adds new data and combines the five earlier versions on a single disc.

Family Forest uses Progeny Software's Family Explorer, an easy-to-use viewer that lets you see the descendants and ancestors of every person in the database. You can click on any person and get a variety of charts, including an hourglass chart that's new to this version.

To help you navigate the database's depth of details, the CD comes with a 10-minute introductory tour. It starts by viewing the details of Edward Dean Adams, who “negotiated a gold deal to avert a US financial crisis.” The tour instructs you to view Adams' descendant chart, where you click on one of his greatgrandchildren, Judith Adams. From there, you click on a series of other people, taking you back and forth through 1,200 years of ancestral history — from King Alfred the Great of England to Mary Queen of Scots to George Washington, all of whom are connected through marriage or blood.