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Family Tree Maker 2008 Platinum (PC)

by Avanquest Software
Windows XP
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 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 and a 400 page guide book
  • Includes 6 MONTHS premium access to ancestry.co.uk (Worth over £59) No Credit Card Required! Everything you need to get started is inside the box!
  • No. 1 Selling Family History Software for 18 Years Running

Product details

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  • ASIN: B000VVNUWI
  • Release Date: 12 Oct 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,497 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

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 6 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.

OFFICIAL FAMILY TREE MAKER GUIDE

This in-depth guide will help you use Family Tree Maker 2008 to create a family history that you and your family will treasure for years. Start building your tree by entering what you already know. Then follow the author’s step-by-step instructions to locate more information about your ancestors online, add photographs and rich media files, and design charts and reports to display and share.

Learn the why, how, and when of using its most popular features; get advise for mastering advanced tasks and read quick lessons that will make your family history research fast and fun. All In a fully indexed format complete with screenshots and straightforward instructions written specifically fort he newest â€" and best â€" Family Tree Maker ever.

EXCLUSIVE YOUR FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE OFFER â€" 3 ISSUES FREE

As a valued Family Tree Maker Platinum customer you are eligible to receive your first 3 issues of Your Family Tree Magazine absolutely free. Inside the UK’s best selling genealogy magazine you’ll find all this and more:

  • Practical advise on all areas of family history research
  • Each issue covers an array of essential resources
  • Answers to all your genealogy questions
  • The opportunity to put family historians in touch with one another
  • Fantastic free software on CD, pull-out regional research guides and collectable surname reference cards

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 Platinum 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
6 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
  • The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker â€" 400 pages
  • 3 FREE issues of Your Family Tree Magazine

Box Contents

  • 1 x CD-ROM
  • 1 x DVD, 1 x Getting Started Guide,1 x Official Family Tree Maker Book

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    Customer Reviews

    Most Helpful Customer Reviews
    17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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    This is a radical change from previous versions of this software, which has since been updated & now works brilliantly. Anyone who is used to using a point-and-click interface, such as a web browser will now find this software very easy to use. Charting is also much simpler to use than older versions. I'm still feeling some resistance to this new version, but that's about familiarity, not functionality. Unlike the old software which used to take regular holidays to Mars whilst it thought about things, this install seems to work almost flawlessly & instantly. Access to online mapping via Micro9soft Virtual Earth is seamless & actually quicker than using the Virtual Earth standalone software. Access to online census data, including LDS data is much improved. Placing all 'media' into a single folder on your computer's hard drive, rather than incorporating it within an ever bigger(and therefore slower) database is a substantial improvement. It also allows direct access to such media 'objects' from within Windows itself so that, for instance, Census images can be much more easily taken into applications such as Photoshop to be cropped & have the black areas removed from their edges, enabling easier viewing on-screen & much less wasted ink on printing.
    Only gripe is the renaming of media when imported in a database created in a previous version of FTM.
    Its not perfect, but its trying hard to get there & will appeal to seasoned researchers & newby technophobes alike.
    Well woth the money. Buy the dearer version as, with the included 6-month online membership, it works out cheaper!!
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    13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
    Just the thing. 13 Dec 2007
    Very easy to use, simple to install and setup. I'm really pleased with this program, works with windows vista, no problems at all, I activated my 6 months Ancestry Trial, I am already a subscriber but this wasn't a problem either, my membership was extended instantly when I registered Family Tree Maker online.
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    26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
    Good, but... 31 Dec 2007
    I've been using other products to order my work but this one has a much clearer and attractive user interface. Handles all things well, maps are useful too. But oh dear, oh dear. The charts and reports are very limiting. There aren't many and they cannot be configured. The one thing I use mine for is to produce a tree of all relatives and a supporting report of data in alphabetic order(rather basic stuff) - that isn't possible!! The designers have included charts the way they like to do them & don't seem to be bothered with any other way.

    i suspect the chart may appear in the next upgrade - but if not, I'm going back to the rival software.

    If your happy with whistles and bells and packaging - have fun. If you want to do serious research, think carefully.
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    Most Recent Customer Reviews
    Good but full of bugs
    Unfortunately on my platform (Vista Ultimate 64bit) this software is absolutely riddled with bugs (even after applying the patch). Read more
    Published on 18 Sep 2008 by Mr. B. J. Hunt
    Oh dear... don't buy...
    I have been using the "less than pretty" Family Tree Maker 2006 as I am a young but very serious family history nut. So I was very excited about the new version. Read more
    Published on 26 Jun 2008 by M. Wraight
    Why Change
    Having used the 2006 version I have traced every member of our family back to around 1840, that's my wife's and mine. Read more
    Published on 25 May 2008 by M. J. Kennedy
    What a shambles
    This is not an update, it is a re-write. What is the point? Such a change should be re-titled and not just given a new date. Read more
    Published on 4 May 2008 by Lee Ward
    I Love every version
    I buy every new version of Family Tree Maker and I was once again impressed. I love finding family from England to Australia, the names and dates make it easy to find as always. Read more
    Published on 10 Mar 2008 by Jo Brown
    A total waste of money
    This is the biggest waste of money ever. My children are on the birth register, but none of my wife's family are- all born, bread and lived in England all their lives. Read more
    Published on 20 Jan 2008 by Sam
    Updated but not really for the best
    I nagged my husband to buy this for my Christmas and when I opened it I was really excited.....Not for long though!!!
    The main problem is that the layout is dreadful. Read more
    Published on 10 Jan 2008 by L. Neil
    Runs rings round the 2006 version. Superb.
    What are these people on about? This is a superb programme. Many features are far superior to the 2006 version. The index has five display options to suit different needs. Read more
    Published on 11 Dec 2007 by S. Morris
    Don't like it - sorry
    I guess part of the problem is I have been using the older versions for a long time now and so am used to the layout. I am struggling with this new version. Read more
    Published on 2 Dec 2007 by A. Bell
    Great software, easy to use!
    Straight forward, easy to navigate, everything you could want to help research your family tree.
    Published on 12 Nov 2007 by Techie
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