Family Tree Maker® 2012 World Edition

TreeSync™-The new TreeSync feature lets you create a link between your Family Tree Maker® tree and its corresponding tree on Ancestry.co.uk. And when your trees are linked together you can update either tree and synchronise those changes into the other tree - manually or automatically. Syncing your Family Tree Maker® tree and online Ancestry tree has many benefits that no other software can offer:

• Access and update your tree anytime, anywhere. With an Internet connection, you can continue your research wherever you are whether it’s through Ancestry, your iPhone, or iPad.
• Share your tree online. Family and friends can viewyour tree (and even work with you) without any software or an Ancestry subscription.
• Collaborate with the largest family history community in the world. If you share your tree publicly, you can connect with other members who are researching the same family lines.

Smart Stories™ - When Family Tree Maker® fills in a Smart Story for you, the story now includes facts about the individual and his or her spouse and children. Previously a generated Smart Story included information about the individual only

New Blended Families View - The family group viewhas a new “blended families” option that lets you see all of an individual’s children in one view. An icon next the child’s name lets you see at a glance whether he or she is the child of the father, mother, or both parents.

Customised Fact Sentences - When you create an Ahnentafel, descendant report, or Smart Story, Family Tree Maker® generates descriptive sentences for each fact or event. Nowyou can change the wording of these sentences and also choose what data is included.

Reports - Improved Notes Report - The Notes Report lets you display person, research, relationship, or fact notes you’ve entered for individuals in your tree

New Index of Individuals Report - The Index of Individuals Report lists every individual in your tree and their birth, marriage, and death dates.

Charts - Generation Labels - Now you can display generation labels (such as parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents) in charts to highlight the relationship between the primary person in the chart and other family members.

Additional Options in Descendant Chart - You can create a descendant chart that shows the relationship between two people whom you select.

Adding Text to a Chart - In addition to adding your own images to a chart, you can now personalise your charts even more by adding your own text - creating a chart that is completely unique.

• Ancestry.co.uk,™the UK’s favourite family history website. Explore millions of fascinating records and delve into your family’s past. Who will you discover?
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  Search and access over 7 billion records in Ancestry.co.uk's global record collection. New records are constantly being added, so there are always newdiscoveries waiting for you. Search our records, start your family tree and we’ll help you uncover your ancestors’ stories.

• Family Tree Maker 2012® WORLD EDITION includes 6 months WORLDWIDE Membership† to Ancestry co uk™*. Perfect for family historians with ancestors in other countries and where your family history journey will take you overseas. Enjoy unlimited access to Ancestry.co.uk’s entire global record collection including the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada and the USA. Fromembarkation papers to immigration documents and slave registers – if Ancestry have records, you can view them– wherever in the world they are!

• Your 6 Months ‘Worldwide’ Membership gives you access to:

  • Unlimited access to our entire library of over 7 billion records
  • Guaranteed access to all our new releases
  • Emigration records fromAmerica, Canada, Australia and more
  • Overseas censuses, electoral rolls and birth, marriage and death records
  • Exclusive UK parish, military and immigration records
  • The UK census records from1841-1911
  • Plus, all our other worldwide
     
• Quick Start Guide (Digital Version) Quick Start Guide (Digital Version) Follow simple instructions to begin a project.
• Printed Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker® 2012 Learn Family Tree Maker’s most popular features with quick lessons that make research fast and fun. Over 380 pages of invaluable information!
• Interactive Training Tutorials Step-by-step hints and tips to help you grow your family tree.
• A fantastic selection of genealogy offers from our trusted partners

*The Ancestry.co.uk membership requires activation with a valid credit or debit card 

Backup and Protect Your Precious Memories:
As you embark on your family history journey, you’ll start to gather valuable information about your ancestors, including family photos, video clips, certificates and records, e-mails, music etc. Backup and Protect ensures that your PC and everything on it, is fully protected against disaster!

• Safeguard valuable digital belongings from system crashes, virus infections and hard drive failures.
• Automatic scheduling takes the hassle out of remembering to backup
• Backup to CD, DVD, USB drives, separate partitions, hard drive or network.
• Saves space by only backing up files and data that has changed.

Create your own Family Tree Website
One of the most rewarding parts of researching your family history is sharing the results with family and friends. Using Create your own Website, you can create your very own customised family website. 

• Connect your family members from all over the world and stay in touch with loved ones.
• Share photos, video clips, family recipes, stories, special moments and memories.
• Fully customisable with no web design experience or html programming required!

Take a Tour of Family Tree Maker®

Are you wondering how Family Tree Maker® can help you easily create and share your family tree? Let us take you on a quick walk-through of the software. We’ll take a closer look at some of the key features and tools that are available and show you why Family Tree Maker® is the best option to help you discover, organise, and show off your family history.

Start Your Tree Quickly
Starting your family tree is simple. If this is your first tree, enter a fewbrief facts about you andfirst tree, enter a fewbrief facts about you and your parents and you’re on your way. You can also import a file fromanother genealogy programor download a Member Tree you’ve created on Ancestry.co.uk.

Add Family Members to your Tree
The Family tab gives you a comprehensive viewof your tree. You can see several generations of your family at once and jump to any person in your tree with a single click. In this view you can also add children and ancestors for an individual and add life events.

The Person tab focuses on a single individual. You can add facts, notes, or media items for an individual; view a timeline of those life events blended with other family members’ life events—and historical events; or, you can see a list of all the members of an individual’s family— spouses, children, parents, and siblings. A mini pedigree tree below the main toolbar lets you navigate to anyone in your tree.

Illustrate Your Family History
Most genealogy programs let you add media items to a family tree. And Family Tree Maker® is no exception. You can incorporate photographs, important documents, and video and sound clips into your tree, which can be used in charts, family history books, and slideshows.

But Family Tree Maker® goes beyond the typical genealogy program. You can use categories to quickly organise and sort your media, scan images directly into your media collectionimages directly into your media collection and,and link media items to multiple people in your tree.

And each time you add a media itemto your tree, you can link it to the original file on your hard drive rather than importing the file into your tree, which minimises file sizes that might slow you down.

Create Keepsake Charts
The more you learn about your family the more you’ll want to share - and the powerful charting tools in Family Tree Maker® make it easy. You might want to frame a tree to hang in your home, create a poster to display at a family reunion, or email customised charts to distant relatives.

You can choose from:

• Ancestor tree charts; Fan-Shaped & Vertical
• Descendant charts
• Hourglass charts
• Pedigree charts
• Bow Tie charts
• Extended family charts
• Family tree charts
• Relationship charts

Leave a Legacy
Wouldn’t you love to have a printed family history where you can share your family stories, photographs, maps, and research? Family Tree Maker® gives you the power to combine your choice of printouts - from pedigree charts, kinship reports, and genealogy reports to timelines, and more - into one continuous document. Family Tree Maker® can automatically generate a table of contents and index of individuals,y p,andyou have a complete book. When you’re finished, print and bind it to create a unique gift for your family to cherish. You can also export it as a PDF that can be e-mailed to your friends and family.

Not sure how to get started? Family Tree Maker® can help. Smart Stories™ is a narrative tool that lets you create biographies using facts, images, and notes you’ve already entered in your tree. Simply drag-and-drop into the story. And Smart Stories text is linked to your tree so if you make changes, the text will be updated automatically.

Explore Your Data
Reports are mainstays of family historians. You can create detailed reports about a single family, such as the family group sheet; relationship reports that show marriage events or parentage facts; and more. Simply select the type of report and format you want, then print - Family Tree Maker® does the work for you. You can even save your settings in one report and apply themto a different report. Or, export your report and edit it in a spreadsheet or word-processing program.

Family Tree Maker® includes these report types:

• Ahnentafel
• Bibliography
• Calendar
• Customreport
• Marriage report
• Media itemreport
• Media usage report
• Research journal
• Source usage report
• Surname report
• Timeline
• Data errors report
• Descendant report
• Family group sheet
• Index of Individuals
• Kinship Report
• LDS ordinances report
• Notes report
• Outline Descendant
• Parentage report
• Photo Album
• Place usage report

Place Your Ancestors on the Map
As you record the important events in your ancestors’ lives, you’ll identify the towns, cities, and countries that shaped their daily lives. And Family Tree Maker® has partnered with Microsoft Bing Maps so you can view these important locations using dynamic online maps. Visit the town in Ireland where your grandmother was born, locate the battlefield where your uncle died in WWII, and let Family Tree Maker® bring your ancestral homelands to lifeancestral homelands to life.

Manage Your Sources
Family Tree Maker® makes it easy to document the facts behind your family tree. All your sources can be viewed and edited in one central location. You can even rate sources and attach a single source to multiple people and facts.

Don’t know how to cite sources? Don’t worry. Family Tree Maker® includes source templates that can tell you exactly what kind of information you need to record for hundreds of source types.

GrowYour Tree with Ancestry Hints
Family Tree Maker® and Ancestry.co.uk work together to help you fill in those blanks in your family tree. Family Tree Maker® automatically searches the vast collection of genealogy records on Ancestry.co.uk looking for information that matches people in your tree. When a possible match is found, a green leaf or “hint” appears. If the record matches someone in your tree, you can merge information and images directly into your tree

Manage Your Sources
Family Tree Maker® is integrated with Ancestry.co.uk - the UK’s largest online family history resource. Using your subscription to Ancestry.co.uk, you can access billions of records and join a worldwide community of family history enthusiasts.

If you have an Ancestry Member Tree, you can download it into Family Tree Maker® and use it to either create a new tree or merge it with another.

And if you want to share your tree with others, upload your tree to Ancestry.co.uk in one step; it will contain not only the dates, names, and places, but all your media items, sources, and Ancestry records.

Family Tree Maker® contains a variety of innovative and advanced features that both beginners and experts will enjoy

Import Family Trees in a variety of different sources.
In addition to importing GEDCOMs, you can also import files created in Legacy Family Tree, The Master Genealogist, and FamilySearch Personal Ancestral File.

Capture Information Anywhere on the Web
You like being able to view Ancestry.co.uk records within Family Tree Maker® and merge them into your tree. Now you can search the entire Web and use the Web-clipping tool to easily import images, facts, and notes into your tree; you can even save an archived version of a Web page.

Create and Display CustomFacts
Although Family Tree Maker® comes with a variety of default facts, you may want to create customfacts that work for your family tree. For example, if you are trying to track your ancestors by censuses, you may want to create a customfact for each census year. You can also customise the editing panel on the Family tab to display any facts you like.

Keep your tree organised and accurate
Family Tree Maker® has relationship and date calculators, a global spell checker, tools for locating duplicate individuals andtools for locating duplicate individuals and missing media items, and a to-do list to keep your research on track.

Create Custom Historical Events for Timelines
Family Tree Maker® has a database of historical events fromall over the world that can be used in timelines. You can edit, delete, and add to these historical events. In addition, when you create a timeline, Family Tree Maker® looks at facts entered for an individual and displays the most location-appropriate historical events.

Keep Locations Consistent
Family Tree Maker® contains a place authority database of more than 3 million place names. When you enter a location name into your tree, Family Tree Maker® automatically checks each place name against its database, looking for misspellings and missing data, such as missing counties.

†The Ancestry.co.uk™ ‘Worldwide’ Membership begins upon activation of the 6-month free subscription with a valid credit or debit card, but no money will be taken during the free subscription period. To ensure uninterrupted service, your membership will be automatically renewed at the end of the free subscription period for a further 6 months of paid subscription. To cancel your membership without incurring a charge to your credit or debit card, go to www.ancestry.co.uk, simply login and go to ‘My Account’, click on ‘Cancel Subscription’ at least 2 days before the free subscription is due to end, otherwise the full price of a 6-month ‘Worldwide’ membership will be automatically debited from your credit or debit card. Assuming that you do not cancel, at the end of the 6 months paid subscription period your membership will roll over into an annual membership that will automatically renew at the end of each year, unless you cancel before each renewal. Use of Ancestry.co.uk is subject to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. See www.ancestry.co.uk for full details. †† Based on the price of a monthly Premium package subscription at Ancestry.co.uk™ as of 6th September 2011

• Windows® XP (SP3), Vista® (SP1) or 7
• 1GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent)
• Hard disk space: 500MB for installation
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• Display 1024 x 768 resolution
• CD-ROM Drive
• All online features require Internet access

NOTE: This is the latest version of Family Tree Maker and is valid for use in 2013