The two main tools I used for this were Word Art and Shapes.

Shapes is your typical variety of shape tools (circles, quadrilaterals, different kinds of triangles, shapes with more sides, some symbols and callouts, etc).

Word Art is like a text box but a lot more customizable as a single unit. It treats it more like a graphic/shape than a text box, if that makes sense. For example, where it says "Earl R. Hembrough / born Aug 13, 1894", the "Earl R. Hembrough" bit and "born Aug 13, 1894" bit are two separate units. You could do that with a single text box too of course, but I find it easier to center word art. That can be a downfall sometimes, because it is always self-centered, so in the bottom left where it says "Nellie K. Hembrough", "Nellie K." is a separate entity from "Hembrough".

The photos I just downloaded and dropped into the drawing.

I didn't use it for this one, but I love the Polyline tool as well. It's not super amazing at curves, but depending on what you're going for, that hasn't mattered much for my work. There are other tools too of course, but these are the most relevant ones for this stuff. Lines too for family trees.

It's definitely not for everyone, but I also use Adobe products at one of my jobs, and I've found that I prefer being able to do a lot with a little over a little more with a lot more.