Family Tree Maker Software

A Closer Look At the Family Tree Maker Program

Family Tree Maker software is long-standing program which has been constantly updated. It can help you immensely in 'doing your family tree'. Check below for more details about it.

This program has been around in one form or another for years. It is now owned by The Software MacKiev Company, who took it over from ancestry.com, the genealogy giant in the online world! As such, it is a very powerful program with all the latest bells and whistles in its newest edition.

This program works with both Macs and PCs so whatever you have, you are covered. Just be certain to order the correct version for your machine. Here are the minimum requirements for the newest version, FTM 2019, of the program.

• Macintosh - OS X 10.10 or later, including macOS Catalina 10.15, 900 MB hard disk space, 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended), 1280 x 800 screen resolution.
• Windows - Windows 7 or later, including Windows 10, 900 MB hard disk space, 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended), 1024 x 768 screen resolution.

In A Family Tree Program and Your Genealogy Research you can read about some of the major things to check when looking for the genealogy program for your use.

Family Tree Maker software meets all of those, and has additional capabilities as well.

• It is an easy program to get started with, having the usual fill-in screens, and easy movement from one area of the program to another.

So, for those of you just starting out with a computer program for your genealogy work, it is forgiving and easy.

• It also has all the power you will need for a long time to come, so if you are experienced and need a program that can hold vast amounts of information including sources, digital file materials, photographs, and such, it will meet your needs as well.
• The program is closely integrated with ancestry.com. If you have an ancestry.com family tree you can directly import it into the program. Thus, you do not need to enter all the material all over again. It also integrates a web search directly accessing the materials on ancestry.com.
• Additionally it integrates with familysearch.org, the free online website for the Mormon Church (LDS). This allows you to search the vast resources of familysearch.org from within the program and directly import the material into your family tree.

• You can create slideshows from the photos in your family tree. You can publish books from the materials in your tree.
• You can very easily enter source material. One of the hardest things for most people is learning how to enter source information for the material we have found in our research. The program makes it much easier by providing a set of source templates so you need only fill in the information. You do not have to know what you should enter for material from an article in a magazine or journal. Just complete the appropriate template.
• There is broad support for digital material in the Family Tree Maker software. It supports scanners so you can scan materials into the program directly. In fact, you can add all sorts of photos, but also audio and video files to your tree as well.
• You can easily import data you may have in other programs such as Legacy Family Tree, Personal Ancestral File (PAF), and The Master Genealogist.

In other words, Family Tree Maker is a complete, easy-to-use family tree program.

Check here for where to buy the latest version of FTM.

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