Product Description

Discover how easy it is to explore, preserve, and share your family history. Whether you're new to family history or a seasoned genealogist, the Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials Edition is designed to help beginners find results fast. One month of premium access to ancestry.com is included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1725 in Software
• Brand: Encore
• Model: 14840
• Released on: 2007-08-28
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Software for exploring, preserving, and sharing family history
• Build a family tree starting with names, dates, and events
• Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family
• Includes 1 month of premium access to ancestry.com

From the Manufacturer
Discover how easy it is to explore, preserve, and share your family history. Whether you’re new to family history or a seasoned genealogist, the Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials Edition is designed to help beginners find results fast. One month of premium access to ancestry.com is included.

Family Tree Maker 2008 lets you easily:

• Build a family tree starting with names, dates, and events
• Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files
• Quickly merge new facts and records from the Web into your tree
• Use interactive maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family

• A new interface that combines elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet, making it much easier to enter, view, and edit your data
• Vastly improved integration with Ancestry.com
• A Web clipper that lets you merge data from anywhere on the Web into your tree
• Standardized criteria for rating your sources
• Features that make it easy to manage photos and other media files and incorporate them into charts and reports
• A place authority with more than 3 million place names that helps you correctly enter locations
• Dynamic lists that show you all the people and events associated with a particular place
• Timelines that highlight personal, family, and world events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives
• A robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree

• Quickly compare information you find on Ancestry with the data in your tree and use a merge wizard to selectively import new facts and records
• Take advantage of Ancestry Hints--a contextual search feature that automatically suggests records pertaining to people in your tree
• Back up your Family Tree Maker data by automatically creating a member tree on Ancestry (you can choose to share your tree with others or keep it private)
• Create heirloom-quality books using the new Ancestry Press self-publishing tool

Customer Reviews

Older versions offer more
Many of the reports, views, etc. from the older version are missing in this version. Available reports cannot be customized as much as in the older version. Printing is a nightmare, and apparently impossible with a wide format printer-which my old version handled just fine. I uninstalled it and went back to the old version I purchased 4 years ago.

Family Tree Maker
The whole family is using this product and we love it. We have over 1000 family members listed going back to the 1300's.

Great product but be patient
Overall a great program but needs to be more user friendly. Do not expect to understand how to use this program in one day. I would give it a week because the manual is not clear in it's instructions nor is the Help link. However once you do figure it out, it is a very powerful and useful program. My frustration began when I could not register the product. I had to call Ancestry.com's Tech Support and they had be download an update Patch that needed for it to work right because my FTM 2008 was one of the older ones with gliches. It works great now and I cannot complain. Another challenge is when you have to add siblings that share a common ancestor which if you are like me wanting to include multiple ancestral lines for all, you have to check preferred parent in the far right dialog box or you will become very frusrtated. It took me 2 days to figure that out. This program can be very user friendly if it had better instructions.