Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3950 in Software
- Brand: Encore
- Model: 705381082002
- Released on: 2003-05-02
- Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
Heritage Family Tree Deluxe is one of the easiest to use and most innovative genealogy program on the market. It is perfect for the beginner and yet powerful and versatile enough for the most advanced genealogist.
New Features in the 2005 Edition:
Detailed File History Log - Keep a detailed log of most changes to the file. This is particularly useful if you are collaborating, as you can see who made the change.
Online IGI Lookups - Get current ordinance data with just a few clicks of the mouse!
Family Books Document and preserve your family history for future generations! Create a book of family trees, charts, and reports complete with a title page, table of contents, and an index.
Progeny Software World Place Finder Lookup over 3.3 million towns and cities from around the world plus. Find missing county names and be sure you've spelled your genealogy place names correctly. And with Progeny's built-in link to MapQuest.com, you can instantly find your ancestor's hometown on a map!
Family Tree Legends Records Collection Sign-up for a free 30 day trial subscription to the Family Tree Legends Records Collection and within minutes you'll have access to some of the best online sources for discovering your ancestors.
Includes the Francis Frith collection of over 14,000 historical images from the British Isles.
Plus all the features of previous versions:
ResearchManager" Stay organized while managing and tracking your important family research. This handy new tool helps you keep track of the sources you've already checked or would like to check.
Centralized DocumentationThe documentation window gives you easy access to notes and sources for individuals and marriages.
WebCollaboration" The new way to share and research your family tree. Include all your family in your research You and your relatives can work concurrently on the same master family file placed on the Internet, view one another's changes in real time and avoid having to merge data and remove duplicate entries.
Access to over 2 Billion Family Records Take advantage of the Internet's greatest genealogy resources. In minutes, you'll have access to the best online sources for discovering your ancestors. Scan thousands of databases and over 2 billion records of the leading research sites, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, and MyTrees.com, all starting from a single location.
Unique Reporting Options Most genealogy software includes sources and notes in family group sheets and book-format reports, but this program can also print sources and notes with pedigree charts and fan charts. Heritage Family Tree Deluxe can even print images of source documents with reports. So when you print a report such as a family group sheet, you can also print images of the family Bible, census record and birth certificate where you found the information.
Bow Tie Charts Heritage Family Tree Deluxe users can view the ancestry of a single individual, tracking both bloodline family trees on the same report even with the option to display pictures.
Jewish Hall of Names Heritage Family Tree Deluxe can generate a Page of Testimony so you can submit information on Holocaust victims to the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Israel.
Charting Companion Powerful tool for creating all types of charts.
Heritage Family Tree Deluxe can read and write PAF 3 and 4 files and read PAF 5 files. This gives PAF users access to several features not found in PAF, such as enhanced Web pages, a printed manual and source references and images printed with pedigree charts. GEDCOM is supported.
Customer Reviews
A good program to start from
I bought this program after using an older program by GSP that was great but wasn't Y2K compatible.
Heritage Family Tree is an easy program to understand, and there are lots of places to store notes, pictures and record sources. It has a rather good function for photos whereby you can store several photos for the same person and view them as a continuous presentation (slide show) - like a mini film.
Another good feature is the reports that you can print out. You can group together a certain family and it will provide space for names, dates and places. This is ideal for sending to relatives to ask them to fill in the blanks or for storing information on paper.
The book that is included in the package is not difficult to understand, but after a few minutes using the program, you probably won't need it anyway.
On the downside, Heritage Family Tree doesn't offer flexibility in displaying the actual tree itself. A person's ancestors are shown with a direct line only - no siblings at each level (no chance to display all relatives) and on A4 size paper only. Descendants are displayed in much the same way, with a basic style that doesn¢t include many options other than to include photos or notes. None of the printout versions allow you to change the style of the tree very much. The GSP program offered the chance to see all relatives on the same page (which could be altered to any size).
So if you are looking for a good data-storing program, this is ideal, if you want flexibility with printouts to create a traditional-looking tree that you could frame and hang on your wall, keep looking.
