Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2364 in Software
• Brand: Avanquest Software
• Released on: 2007-10-12
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Family history is a fun, rewarding hobby that connects you with the past â€" and brings you closer to your present family. Just getting started? Family Tree Maker will make it easy for you to explore and preserve your family heritage. Already an expert? You’ll appreciate the program’s robust features, including flexible data-management options and a wide variety of output choices.

Family Tree Maker lets you easily:

• Create a family tree starting with names, dates and events
• Attach photos, documents and audio video files
• Find information on the web and merge it into your family tree
• Use dynamic maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived
• View timelines that show your ancestor’s lives in historical context
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family

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

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

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.

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

Getting Started with Family History

• Begin with what you already know
• Research home and family sources for information
• Start to build your tree
• Find information on the web

Family Tree Maker Tutorials

• Build your tree in Family Tree Maker
• Search Ancestry.co.uk for information
• Collate your findings
• Publish the results of your work to share with family and friends

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 Deluxe 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
3 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