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Family Tree Maker 2008 Deluxe (PC)
 
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Family Tree Maker 2008 Deluxe (PC)

by Avanquest Software
Windows XP
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Windows XP
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Build your family tree. Preserve your family legacy.
  • Organise your family’s precious history
  • Search and access millions of historical records
  • Create charts, timeless and memory books
  • Includes the official Family Tree Maker UK Training DVD
  • No. 1 Selling Family History Software for 18 Years Running

Product details

  • Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
  • ASIN: B000VVIP8M
  • Release Date: 12 Oct 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,429 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Family history is a fun, rewarding hobby that connects you with the past â€" and brings you closer to your present family. Just getting started? Family Tree Maker will make it easy for you to explore and preserve your family heritage. Already an expert? You’ll appreciate the program’s robust features, including flexible data-management options and a wide variety of output choices.

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 â€" 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 MONTHS premium access to ancestry.co.uk (Worth over £59) 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.”
â€" 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 â€" 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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Average Customer Review
3.4 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Does what it says, 24 Oct 2007
This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2008 Deluxe (PC) (CD-ROM)
I've just started playing around with the product and really like it. I am new to family researh and find it easy to use. I like the timeline feature and that i can clip photos and info from other websites. Not sure how that compares to previous versions simce I am new to this
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Software supplied is incomplete. Take care, 23 Sep 2008
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David Taylor "jaxonsax" (North Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2008 Deluxe (PC) (CD-ROM)
The product itself is a very good engine for collating family tree information as a standalone solution but has one significant problem for buyers..........

The CD software will not operate fully as supplied and requires the downloading of a software patch to enable it to connect properly to the internet. From reviewing internet message boards this seems to be a not uncommon problem. Very disappointing and a major problem for buyers who are not IT literate.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The good, the bad and the ugly, 4 May 2008
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Mrs. Gillian A. Stocker (Salisbury, Wiltshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2008 Deluxe (PC) (CD-ROM)
I can understand the disparity between the reviews received to date.
The good is the data entry page, and charting pages which are a vast improvement over previous versions of FTM.
The bad is that the program still severely restricts how you enter data, particularly dates. With a lot of my research I only need to record the year and quarter, but you cannot enter Q1 1925 for example.
The downright ugly is the "manual" that is provided with the software. The square root of useless comes to mind. I had a problem printing a family tree as important data was not being printed on the right hand side, due to the predetermined print size. After some hours I finally managed to resolve the problem. Was there any help in the manual-not even a mention.
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