Features of Family Tree Maker 2008
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Whether you’re new to family history or a seasoned genealogist, Family Tree Maker 2008 makes it easy to discover, preserve and share your family history.
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
This completely redesigned program has dozens of new features, including:
- 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
By using Family Tree Maker 2008 together with Ancestry.com, you can:
- 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
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Take a tour of Family Tree Maker 2008
At My History we always like to look at a program in great depth before just copying the publishers sales information and listing it for sale. The following section shows the many user screens of the program and a quick description of what they are used for.
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| Family Tree Maker 2008 comprises seven screens accessed with the buttons shown below. Some of the screens are further divided into two work areas by tabs near the top of the screen. Scroll down to see a view of each screen. |
'Plan' Screen - 'New Tree' Tab
Start a new tree in this window or import an existing one. The top right pane shows the trees you have created or imported. It also indicates the current open tree.
'Plan' Screen - 'Current Tree' Tab
Manage your tree and tasks from here. Top section shows statistics for the current file. The bottom section shows any general or person specific tasks that have been set up.
'People' Screen - 'Family' Tab
This is one of the windows you will use most to add new people and amend existing ones. It is the equivalent of the ‘family view’ page in earlier editions of FTM. Click on either the father or mother in the bottom pane to bring up 2 - 4 generations of their pedigrees in the top pane. Use the  icon and the  icons to adjust the size or hide the side bars or the bottom ‘family view’ panes. You may also customise the right pane to show more or less details about a person.
'People' Screen - 'Person' Tab
This is the window/tab where you may:
- Add and edit facts about people in your tree.
- View timelines.
- View relationships.
- Add notes, photos and other multimedia.
- Set up tasks specifically to do with this person.
To navigate up or down a generation select a new person in the pedigree chart at top of the screen or click on the green icon to the right of it to open a list of all the people in your tree.
'Places' Screen - 'Manage Places' Tab
This new feature of FTM 2008 will automatically link all your place names to an online mapping system. You will need to be online in order for it to link to Microsoft Virtual Earth tm. The list of place names is taken from the ‘Place or Description’ field in each of the facts in older versions of Family Tree Maker so some tidying up of your data may be required after importing a file into this all new version of the program.
'Media' Screen - 'Collection' Tab
Manage and categorise your photos, document images and other multimedia files here.
'Media' Screen - 'Detail' Tab
Work with media files to link them to people in your tree. Add notes and dates to individual pictures.
'Sources' Screen - 'Manage Sources' Tab
- Create new and manage existing sources, source-citations and repositories
- View a list all sources/source-citations
- View all sources for a person
- Link source-citations to one or more persons
- Link images of certificates to sources
- Add notes about a source
'Publish' Screen - 'Collection' Tab
Start in the left pane to choose a category and then click on a picture in the middle to reveal more about the selection in the right pane.
'Publish' Screen - 'Detail' Tab
Click on the detail tab to see the report for your selected person. Selecting a new person in the pedigree chart at top of the screen reformats the report.
'Web Search' Screen - 'Search' Tab
This is the window where you can manage your web searches for more information about your relatives
The top pane acts like a small internet browser. The lower right pane allows you to copy text and images or even whole web pages prior to merging them to the notes or media of the selected relative.
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