Features
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
SUPPORT RESOURCES FOR FAMILY TREE MAKER
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 - 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 MONTH premium access to ancestry.co.uk (Worth over
£29) No Credit Card Required! Everything you need to get started
is inside the box!
NEW IN FAMILY TREE MAKER
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
"The publishers have taken the chance to revisit and rethink
almost every area of its operation...the extended subscriptions
to Ancestry's online UK records, coupled with vastly improves
searching, give users a great chance to tackle their brickwalls.
Buy it for a comprehensive package with the chance to use
Ancestry's UK records."
- Your Family Tree Magazine Oct 2007
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 - 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
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