Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #673 in Software
• Brand: Avanquest Software
• Released on: 2008-10-24
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's Description

No. 1 Selling Family History Software for 19 Years Running

PC Magazine Editor's Choice for Family Tree Maker 2008 - December 2007

Over the past two decades Family Tree Maker by Ancestry.co.uk has helped 45 million people discover, share and preserve their family stories. Family Tree Maker 2009 makes it even easier to do just that "" with quicker load times, helpful new features and overall better performance.

Everyone has a family. Every family has a story. And the closer you get to yours, the more meaningful life becomes. For almost two decades, Family Tree Maker from Ancestry.co.uk has made it easy to discover your story, preserve your legacy and share your rich heritage as you bring your family tree to life on your personal computer. And now Family Tree Maker is even more powerful and feature-packed

Family Tree Maker 2009 lets you easily:

Organise your family story privately and conveniently on your personal computer.
Create charts and reports in a variety of formats to share with friends and family
Discover new information anywhere on the web and add it to your tree instantly.
Integrate with the 800 million names in historical records on Ancestry.co.uk. Even receive hints linking you to matching records.
Incorporate photos, documents and audio, video and other les into your tree.
View timelines and interactive maps

What's new in Family Tree MakerTM 2009?

Exciting new charts and reports
Improved data editing and manipulation
Enhanced maps, charts and reports
A robust "find and replace" functionality
Expanded RTF and HTML export
Improved file merging and memory usage
A way to copy and paste source citations
The ability to save and apply templates
Increased overall performance
Faster navigation and quicker load times

How can you make the most of Ancestry.co.ukTM?
Family Tree Maker Deluxe 2009 comes with three months of free access to Ancestry.co.uk, the UK's largest online collection of family history resources. Your software works seamlessly with the site so you can easily search for your ancestors and add the information you discover to your tree. You could find missing facts about your family in census records, military records, image collections and other historical resources.

Search and access over 800 million names - The UK's largest collection of online family history records!
Census records including the 1841-1901 censuses for England, Scotland and Wales
Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes from 1837-2005 for England and Wales
Military records including British Army WW1 Records
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Phone Books 1880-1984
Deeds, court documents and wills

BONUS MATERIALS INSIDE:

The Getting Started Guide to Family Tree Maker
Follow simple directions to begin a project and master the program's basic features.

Interactive Training Tutorial
Get step-by-step instructions and tips that will help you easily build and grow your family tree.

Discounts on Ancestry Products
Save 15% on a personalised, professionally printed family history book or poster and 30% on Ancestry DNA testing

Family Tree Maker 2009 Deluxe Feature Summary

3-month Ancestry.co.uk Essentials Membership (worth over £32)
Family Tree Maker Program Disc
Family Tree Maker Getting Started Guide
Family Tree Maker Training Tutorial
30% discount on Ancestry DNA Testing (up to $50 value)
15% discount on Ancestry Print Products

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

Ancestry for beginners, and experts
What a wonderful product for storing and sharing your family tree. I was half expecting to be blinded by science with this software, with long detailed descriptions of why things work a certain way and possibly having to rigorously enter all exact details in a certain order. I can happily report that Family Tree Maker is a joy to use, and one that the more experienced you get, the more benefit you can get out of it.

Installation was straight forward and easy to register (the deluxe version grants 3 months "Essentials" membership to ancestry.co.uk - 6 months for the platinum version). The "Getting Started Guide" gives slightly more than brief details of the main features such as installation, setting up a new tree, adding media clips and printing the tree.

So using my standard approach to using new software, I ignored the guide and got on with the job in hand. I started off entering my details (date of birth, marriage etc), then I noticed you can add in the place of marriage, and it will allow you to look up the exact place (must be a list installed with the software as the look up works whilst off line), but even if it cannot resolve the place name, you can still enter it.

Entering other details is very easy. There is a quick entry pane for adding new people and children of an individual, and if you select one of these, there is a further more detailed pane to add date of death, marriage(s) etc as well as media clips, notes and tasks. All in all, a very comprehensive list of attributes that can be added for an individual (dates of degrees, confirmation etc) plus you can add your own custom facts/notes too.

Add to the fact you can then print the details in a number of different, pre defined ways (charts and various different report types, too many to mention). You can even export the data in GEDCOM 5.5 format to share with others.

Negative points, not many - it takes 10-15 seconds to start up; there seem to be a multitude of ways to do the same thing (add a spouse or child for example), so you can get confused how to do something; navigating the family tree when entering details takes a little getting used to.

Cannot grumble though, overall, it is a great package.

Really a great programme
For a long while I have been wanting to start to sort out my family tree. This programme has been the answer, the CD is easy to install. The tutorial is very helpful. Already I have the makeing of my family tree going back over 100 years. The 6 months free registration to some helpful websites is vital.
Finding out your family tree does take time, this CD will not give you a long tree without some work. The Web is on the whole answer either but this great set points the family historian along the way.
A super buy, highly recommended.

Good Software.
I don't know whether it's just an age thing, but recently in my mid thirties I started to become more and more intrigued by the history of my family. My Mother and Father come from quite different backgrounds and as my Father died when I was quite young I know very little about his side of the family. This program was simple and easy to use. I had it up and running quickly, and to be honest with only minimal attention to the instructions I found it very easy to find my way around.

Once a few names had been entered, the software automatically started to find ancestry artefacts like my Father and Grandmother's Death Certificates. Some of these ancestry artefacts were included in the price, but pretty quickly the software started asking me for money to display additional artifacts it had located - some of which obviously were not relevant to my family tree (unless i've been lied to and my Grandad is really from Canada). This sofware should be considered the start of your Family Tree adventure, but get ready for a lot of work and additional expense.