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Family Tree Maker 2012
The Latest Version

Earlier Versions of Family Tree Maker
Family Tree Maker 2006

Family Tree Maker for Mac
At long last what many Mac owners have been waiting for; a version of the Worlds most popular family tree program for the Mac operating sytem.

Family Tree Maker Technical Support UK
Frequently Asked Questions for all editions of Family Tree Maker

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NEW FEATURES OF FAMILY TREE MAKER 2012

There are many new improvements and changes to Family Tree Maker 2012. The following article briefly summarizes most of these changes.

This article discusses the following:

TreeSync™
Improved Smart Stories
New Combined Family View
Simplified Interface for Upgraders
Customized Fact Sentences
Reports
Charts
New and Updated Tutorials

TreeSync™

Now you can work on your family tree anywhere with the new TreeSync feature. When you link your desktop and online trees together, you can update either tree and then synchronize those changes into the other tree—manually or automatically. All you need is an Internet connection. 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 view your 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.

Improved Smart Stories

When Family Tree Maker creates 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 Combined Family View

The family group view has a new “blended families” op¬tion that displays all of a couple’s children in one location. 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.

Simplified Interface for Upgraders

When you install Family Tree Maker 2012, the software detects whether you are upgrading from a previous ver¬sion of Family Tree Maker (version 16 or earlier). If you are, Family Tree Maker displays a simplified user interface that looks more like older versions of Family Tree Maker.

Customized Fact Sentences

When you create an Ahnentafel, descendant report, or Smart Story, Family Tree Maker generates descriptive sentences for each fact or event. Now you 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 high-light 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 personalize your charts even more by adding your own text, creating a chart that is completely unique.

New and Updated Tutorials

You can learn to do more—like creating trees and using Ancestry.com features—with new and improved tutorials accessible in the software.

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Family Tree Maker 2011 in Detail

New features introduced in latest version

Family Tree Maker 2011 includes more than 100 enhancements for discovering, preserving, and sharing your family story!

Many of the new features are listed below, and a PDF of the new features can be found by clicking here.

Smart Stories

New Narrative Tool
Ready to start an ancestor’s story? The Smart Story Editor makes it easy by letting you drag-and-drop text and photos from your tree into a Smart Stories page. Stories update automatically when you change facts in your tree.

Charts

Fan Charts
Choose between five different shapes when creating a fan chart.

Photos & Embellishments Enhance charts with the backgrounds, borders and embellishments that come with Family Tree Maker, and use photos wherever you like. Font size, type and color can be changed based on fact types.

Bow Tie Chart
Siblings can be included in the Bow Tie Chart.

Last Generation Shown Vertically
In descendant and hourglass charts, the last generation in the chart can be displayed vertically.

Pedigree Chart
The book layout for the pedigree chart has been adjusted to make better use of space.

Reports

Surname Report
The new Surname Report lists the surnames in your tree, including the total number of individuals with that surname, the number of males and females with that surname, etc.

New Descendant Report
Family Tree Maker now gives you four descendant report options: Register, NGSQ, Henry, and d’Aboville.

Custom Report
The custom report now has user-selected primary and secondary sorts. In addition, new options allow you to include age at death, number of children, age at first marriage, and more.

Kinship Report
You can now sort the Kinship Report by relationship (for example, first cousins can be grouped together).

Bibliography
You can create a simple bibliography of source titles or an annotated bibliography that includes summary information, such as repository and reference notes.

Report Headers & Footers
You can define the headers and footers for a report.

Save Report Settings
You can save the current report settings and use them as the preferred settings for that report.

Photo Albums
You can now create an album for a person, relationship, or both.

Calendar
You can now choose to display death dates in the calendar.

Ancestry Integration

Expanded Web Dashboard
The expanded Web Dashboard now includes Member Connect activity, links to message boards, and notification of new Ancestry messages.

Enhanced Performance
You can choose the type of Internet connection you’re using, which allows Family Tree Maker to tailor how it downloads information from the Web. Uploading and downloading speeds have been improved, and there is increased ability to upload large files to Ancestry.com.

General

Enhanced Index of Individuals
The Index now displays people based on name and then birth date.

Historical Timelines
Now you can edit, delete, and add to the historical events that come with Family Tree Maker. In addition, Family Tree Maker looks at facts entered for an individual and displays the most location-appropriate historical events.

Place Enhancements
You can now choose a “home” country, and Family Tree Maker will not display this country in fields, charts and reports. Support for townships, parishes, and counties has also been enhanced.

LDS Information
Family Tree Maker can now display information on initiatories and confirmations. These facts can also be included in charts.

Data Entry

Automatic Reference Numbers
Family Tree Maker can now assign reference numbers automatically to individuals, relationships, or both.

Duplicate Person Alert
When you enter new individuals, Family Tree Maker alerts you if it believes you may already have the individual in your tree.

Media

Locate Missing Files
If you’ve moved your media items and Family Tree Maker has marked them as “missing,” the Find Missing Media tool can locate them all at once.

Categories
You can now assign categories to multiple items at one time.

Media Metadata Stored in Family Tree Maker
If your images contain metadata, the information will be stored, and a caption, date, or description, will be automatically entered.

Features of Family Tree Maker 2008 - 2011

Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting on your family tree, Family Tree Maker 2011 can help you create a family tree faster, easier, and better than ever before. The end result is a family history that you and your family will treasure for years to come.

Tree Management
Media
Maps and Locations
Tools
Charts, Reports, and Books
Data Entry
Sourcing

A typical view of the family screen in Family Tree Maker 2011

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Ancestry.com Family Tree Download
You can now download your online Ancestry.com trees directly into Family Tree Maker and either start a new tree or merge it into your current file. The downloaded tree will include the facts as well as images associated with the online tree.

Performance Improvements
Performance has been improved throughout the program, particularly in startup time and when importing .FTW and GEDCOM files.

Enhanced File Statistics
You can view new statistical information about your tree including the average life span of individuals in your tree, the earliest birth date, and the most recent birth date. (see image left).

Enhanced Web Dashboard
The Web dashboard on the Plan workspace now includes your Ancestry.com account information as well as Twitter feeds from Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com.

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Scanner Support
You can scan images directly into Family Tree Maker and organize them into categories at the same time.

Slide Show
Create slide show presentations using images you've included in your tree. (See image left).You can also export the slide show to share with others (the slide show can be viewed in Windows Media Player).

Work with Media Items as a Group
Select multiple media items at the same time; choose categories for media items as a group.

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GPS/Latitude-Longitude Support
In the Places workspace you can access and modify GPS coordinates. You can also select your own locations on the map and store their GPS coordinates.(See image below)

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Migration Maps
Show the locations of an individual's life events on a map. Or choose multiple individuals and show all the locations linked to an entire family. (You can select the specific individuals to include and the specific events you want mapped.)(See image below).
Updated Place Authority
Thousands of new place names have been added to the locations database and additional locations have been updated and/or corrected.

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More Robust Relationship Calculator
The Relationship Calculator now has the ability to display multiple relationships for an individual (for example when cousins marry). The first relationship displayed will be the closest relationship. You will also be able to display the 'path' of how individuals are related.(See image left).

Global Spell-Check
An enhanced spell-check will look for spelling errors in all fact descriptions, notes, sources, media descriptions, and tasks.

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Family Group Sheet Redesign
The Family Group Sheet has been redesigned to more closely adhere to a standard format and has improved image support. (See image left).

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Genealogy Report Improvements
The wording of the Register and Ahnentafel reports has been improved and has a more narrative feel.(See image right)

Kinship Report Lists Multiple Relationships
Previously, the Kinship report only listed one relationship per individual. Now every relationship is included. For example, if cousins marry, their relationships as spouses and cousins will be included.

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Sources in Charts
You can now include source information with a chart. The sources will be numbered and displayed on a separate page at the end of the chart.(See image left).

Rename Publishing Items on the Collection Tab
Books, charts, and reports can all be renamed directly from the Saved Publications list.

Export and Delete Individuals from Charts
You can select a group of individuals in a chart and then export them as a separate tree or delete them as a group. This feature is especially powerful in the Extended Family Tree chart.

Include or Exclude Non-preferred Events in Charts and Reports
You can choose whether to include or exclude non-preferred facts from charts and reports. Facts such as occupation and residence can now be shown in a report without having to include all non-preferred facts.

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Shortened Place Names
You can enter brief place names to use in reports and charts.

Book-Building Improvements
You can change the order in which items in your book appear by dragging and dropping them in the book outline; you can also use duplicate names for book items.

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Enhanced Family View
Improvements to the People workspace allow you to see more information about individuals in the pedigree view as well as information about the parents of the selected couple.

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Ability to Quickly Add Facts on Person Tab
When adding facts to an individual on the Person tab, you now have the ability to quickly add basic facts (such as Birth, Marriage, and Death) from a drop-down list. The drop-down list will also include any facts you've custom added to the editing panel on the Family tab.

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Enhanced Editing of Relationships
A new relationship window gives easy access to relationship facts, notes, and media items. (See image left).

Saved History List
Previously, when you closed out of Family Tree Maker, you would lose the history list that showed which sources, media items, or individuals you had recently edited. Now, these History edit lists remain even if you close out of Family Tree Maker.

Printing Notes
You can now print notes you've entered for an individual.

Task List Filtering
Task lists can now be filtered by category, which allows you to print category specific tasks.

Graphical Indicators on Person Tab
New graphical indicators have been added to the Person tab to indicate when media items, notes, and sources are linked to the selected person.

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Replacing Source Citations
Source citations can be replaced by an existing source citation—without losing any links to individuals or media items.

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