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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23 in Software
• Brand: GSP
• Released on: 2007-10-12
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
SUPPORT RESOURCES FOR FAMILY TREE MAKER

Getting Started Guide
Follow the directions in this handy guide to begin your first Family Tree Maker project and master the program’s basic features.

Family Tree Maker Website
Join a thriving community of novice and experienced historians at www.familytreemaker.com. The site offers expert advice, message boards, advanced product support and more. You’ll also have access to a comprehensive knowledge base, which lets you search frequently asked questions about Family Tree Maker, and print out family history charts to fill out-out during your research.

USING FAMILY TREE MAKER WITH ANCESTRY.CO.UK

Family Tree Maker integrates seamlessly with Ancestry.co.uk, allowing you to easily access the UK’S largest online collections of family historical records. Ancestry.co.uk is home to many different types of records, including census, military, immigration, birth, marriage and death records, just to name a few.

The largest collection of records available online for the UK

• Access to the complete English and Welsh Birth, Marriage and Death indexes 1837-2005
• Newspapers and periodicals
• Military records including British Army World War One Records
• Immigration and emigration records
• The British Phone Books 1880-1984
• And much, much more

By using Family Tree Maker with Ancestry.co.uk, you can:

• Search the UK’s largest collection of family history records, including billions of names, for information about your ancestors

• Get help from the Ancestry Community through message boards and other tools â€" and potentially find your ancestors in millions of photos and family trees submitted by members

• Automatically create an online family tree to back up your data and share it with family and friends (you can keep your tree private if you’d prefer)

• Includes 6 MONTHS premium access to ancestry.co.uk (Worth over £59) No Credit Card Required! Everything you need to get started is inside the box!

NEW IN FAMILY TREE MAKER

If you’re familiar with a previous version of Family Tree Maker, you’ll notice that the program has a fresh new look and feel. We’ve made it easier than ever to enter, view and edit you data.

We’ve also added dozens of other new features, including:

• A web clipper that let’s you merge data from anywhere on the web into your family tree
• Timelines that highlight important personal, family and historical events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives trees submitted by members
• Interactive maps and lists that show all the people in your family tree associate with a particular place
• A place name database that helps you enter locations in a consistent format
• Features that make it easy to view photos and other media files, attach them to multiple people in your family tree and incorporate tem into charts and reports
• A robust tool for sorting and managing to-do list
• Standardised criteria for rating your success
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including FamilySearch Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist and Legacy Family Tree

“The publishers have taken the chance to revisit and rethink almost every area of its operation…the extended subscriptions to Ancestry’s online UK records, coupled with vastly improves searching, give users a great chance to tackle their brickwalls. Buy it for a comprehensive package with the chance to use Ancestry’s UK records.”
â€" Your Family Tree Magazine Oct 2007

FAMILY TREE MAKER OFFICIAL TRAINING DVD

Whether you’re just getting started with family history, or are already underway with your research, the whole process of genealogy can sometimes be a daunting prospect.

With the official Family Tree Maker Training DVD, specifically designed for this UK version, you can watch as Ancestry’s family history expert Megan Smolenyak takes you step-by-step through the process of researching your family history and building a family tree. Featuring clear, concise instruction, you can watch over 50 minutes of high-quality video footage and on-screen demonstrations, showing exactly what you need to do to get started with this fun and rewarding pastime.

OFFICIAL FAMILY TREE MAKER GUIDE

This in-depth guide will help you use Family Tree Maker 2008 to create a family history that you and your family will treasure for years. Start building your tree by entering what you already know. Then follow the author’s step-by-step instructions to locate more information about your ancestors online, add photographs and rich media files, and design charts and reports to display and share.

Learn the why, how, and when of using its most popular features; get advise for mastering advanced tasks and read quick lessons that will make your family history research fast and fun. All In a fully indexed format complete with screenshots and straightforward instructions written specifically fort he newest â€" and best â€" Family Tree Maker ever.

EXCLUSIVE YOUR FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE OFFER â€" 3 ISSUES FREE

As a valued Family Tree Maker Platinum customer you are eligible to receive your first 3 issues of Your Family Tree Magazine absolutely free. Inside the UK’s best selling genealogy magazine you’ll find all this and more:

• Practical advise on all areas of family history research
• Each issue covers an array of essential resources
• Answers to all your genealogy questions
• The opportunity to put family historians in touch with one another
• Fantastic free software on CD, pull-out regional research guides and collectable surname reference cards

BUILDING YOUR FAMILY TREE JUST GOT EASIER.

Millions of people have used Family Tree Maker, to discover and share their family stories. Now, with an intuitive new interface and dozens of new features, the latest version makes it easier than ever to explore your roots.

The Platinum Edition includes:

Family Tree Maker â€" New UK Version

• Organise your family’s precious history
• Add new information from Ancestry.co.uk to your tree
• Create charts, timelines and memory books to share with friends and family

Ancestry.co.uk
6 MONTHS premium access to the UK’s most popular family history site, offering access to over 600 million searchable names

Support Products

• Megan Smolenyak UK Training Video (DVD)
• Getting Started Guide
• The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker â€" 400 pages
• 3 FREE issues of Your Family Tree Magazine

Box Contents

1 x CD-ROM

1 x DVD, 1 x Getting Started Guide,1 x Official Family Tree Maker Book

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Customer Reviews

What a shambles
This is not an update, it is a re-write. What is the point? Such a change should be re-titled and not just given a new date. The publishers have already created a confusion with introduction of Ancestry incorporating FTM. What are they playing at? Family history computer games?

It is high time that computer program writers addressed the neglected issue of user-friendliness. The are still writing for the professional computer user and ignoring the thousands of amateurs who form the majority of customers buying programs and subscribing to magazines. It is these amateurs who are the major providers of finance and data to this ever growing industry and their needs should be respected.

The new FTM2008 is an example of indulgence by FH program writers. I am stopping at FTM2006.

I Love every version
I buy every new version of Family Tree Maker and I was once again impressed. I love finding family from England to Australia, the names and dates make it easy to find as always. I think that this product is so easy to transfer my trees to newer versions and easy to understand the slight variations.

Fantastic
Unlike previous reviewers, I've found this to be fantastic software well worth the money.

Having not used earlier versions of programe I can't comment on the difference but have found this to be easy to use and navigate around.

Well worth it!