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Green leaf icons in the People workspace alert you to possible matches.

The program comes with a three-month membership and searches the site’s databases for the names in your file when you’re connected to the Internet. The Web Search workspace lets you search, ,, Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live Search from within Family Tree Maker. No other genealogy software has anything as useful as the Media workspace for organizing multimedia files.
FAMILY TREE MAKER TRIAL SOFTWARE 2009 PDF
Print the charts or save them as PDF files for e-mailing or professional printing. You can customize fonts, box and line styles, backgrounds and pictures. Horizontal hourglass, bow-tie and family tree charts are new. Missing from the last version, fan charts return.
FAMILY TREE MAKER TRIAL SOFTWARE 2009 UPDATE
(An early 2009 update should let you include a name index.)Īdding insult to injury, you have to agree that “Ancestry may reproduce, compile, and distribute, all information about nonliving individuals in your submitted GEDCOM file.” You shouldn’t have to give virtually unlimited rights to your family file just so you can create a family history book.įamily Tree Maker still produces the best wall charts of any genealogy software. Creating a book is frustratingly slow, and you can’t include three key components: a table of contents, narrative reports or an index. You can purchase a printed book or print one yourself. To create a book, Family Tree Maker links to ’s M圜anvas, an online service that lets you choose backgrounds and graphics to design pages. And you can’t include pictures or an index in its awkwardly worded narrative reports (Genealogy Reports). Pedigree charts don’t automatically show baptism and burial information when birth and death dates are unknown. But it’s easy to reuse citations and attach files to them.īasic reports are poor: The default family group sheet includes only core facts. Unlike most genealogy software, Family Tree Maker doesn’t show how a footnote will look as you enter a source citation. You’re supposed to be able to have two family files open at once, but when I tried to open a second file, the program said the file didn’t exist. Family Tree Maker GEDCOMs still can’t include links to pictures and other multimedia files. You’re supposed to be able to open Legacy Family Tree, Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and The Master Genealogist files directly, but Family Tree Maker froze when I tried to import Legacy and PAF files.

But the program launches slowly and some components, such as report creation, are sluggish. The seven workspaces (Plan, People, Places, Media, Sources, Publish and Web Search) are logically organized and easy to navigate. For more help, refer to the online knowledge base and get free support via e-mail. The program includes a Getting Started Guide, a tips booklet and a tutorial.
FAMILY TREE MAKER TRIAL SOFTWARE 2009 HOW TO
