Family Tree Maker 2009 (FTM 2009)

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Family Tree Maker 2009 - FTM 2009

Family Tree Maker 2009

• The #1 genealogy software since 1989. • Completely Redesigned last year with a whole new look and architecture. • Dozens of new and improved features.

Family Tree Maker 2009

Take a look at what’s new since the original release of Family Tree Maker 2008. Features available for the first time in Version 2009 are marked with an asterisk (*).

Genealogy Reports

• Register and Ahnentafel full reports
• Register and Ahnentafel simplified reports*
• Data Errors report*

Charts

• Vertical Pedigree Chart
• Hourglass Chart*
• Horizontal Hourglass Chart*
• Bow Tie Chart*
• 180-Degree Fan Chart*
• Family Tree Chart*

Publishing Functionality

• Book layouts for main charts
• Saved settings in charts/reports
• Saved templates in charts
• Preparer information included in chart footers
• Enhancements to the RTF export
• Ability to show siblings within charts*
• Single-page PDF export from charts*
• Ability to add boxes in charts to a “Marked Box” category and modify box settings for these boxes*

Improved Data Manipulation Tools

• Change Place Name tool
• Find and Replace tool
• Streamlined data entry from any workspace using a full-featured edit person window*
• Ability to set spouse order (Person menu)*
• Ability to order media items for an individual*
• Find Individual tool (Edit menu)*
• Find Duplicate Individuals tool (Edit menu)*
• Ability to update multiple facts at one time (From Manage Facts or Fact options): change fact types, move description to place or place to description, mark as private*
• Insert foreign language characters into text fields*

Improvements within Research Tools

• Automatic simple backup at shutdown
• Ability to ignore hints*
• Option to delete existing facts in individual and Web merge*
• Inclusion of married names, AKAs, and titles in index*

Improvements to Import

• Improved name parsing
• OLE objects (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF) from previous FTM versions*
• Import previously ignored hints lists*

Improvements to Places

• Track and print your ancestors’ migration paths on interactive maps*
• Places toolbar that allows for researching place names not currently in the file and pinpointing places such as libraries, churches, and courthouses*

Improvements to Sources

• Copy and paste source citations

* New in Family Tree Maker 2009

Here’s what’s coming:
In addition, we are currently working on new features that will be available as part of Family Tree Maker 2009—as soon as they become available:

• Book Building
• Better Ancestry Member Tree Integration
• Improved Relationship Calculator
• Source templates based on Evidence Explained by source expert, Elizabeth Shown Mills
• And many others…

Thank you to all of the Family Tree Maker community for their loyalty through the years. We are committed to making Family Tree Maker the best desktop software for doing your family history.

Family Tree Maker 2008

• 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.
• Explore the places where your ancestors once lived with user interactive maps.
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family.
• Highlight personal, family and world events that occurred during your ancestors' lives with TimeLines.
• Read this Review of FTM2008.

Included with Family Tree Maker 2008

• A training DVD featuring Megan Smolenyak, America’s leading family historian, who presents tips and guidelines for building your family tree.
• Our History in Images DVD of U.S. Postcards. Add visual excitement and historical context to your family tree with more than 30,000 vintage postcards from all 50 states.
• 14-day free trial subscription to Ancestry.com. Search the world’s largest online repository of family history records.

What's New in Family Tree Maker 2008

• Improved file merge. The Merge Wizard helps you import to bring into a program a file that was created using another program.
• Global task management. Tasks can be added for the tree or for a person.
• Ability to import without having to use a GEDCOM - import from PAF, Legacy, The Master Genealogist and various other file formats.

People Family view that combine the family tree and family group. Person view that displays facts, sources, notes, and tasks in one view. Timeline view that lists personal, family, and historic events. Relationship view that lists family relationships. Index groupings that allow searching by family name, given name, birth date, marriage date, and death date. History list that displays the changes made to records in the tree.

Places A Place Authority database of 3 million complete place names connected to Fast Fields Microsoft Virtual Earth Mapping (both 2D & 3D to find each location in the tree. A view to see all of the people associated with a location.

Media View all of the images and media in your tree from one location. Link one media file to multiple people and view all of the people a media file is linked to.

• View all of the sources in your tree from one location.
• Rate sources using standardized rating criteria.
• Full reference notes.
• Flexible citation.

Publish New charts (Relationship Chart) and reports (Marriage Report, Parentage Report, Media Items, Photo Album, Media Usage Report). More Improved chart and report customization. Output charts and reports to PDF, CSV, RTF, HTML, JPG and other formats

Search Ancestry.com, Rootsweb.com, and Genealogy.com and merge the results into your tree. Search anywhere on the Internet from within Family Tree Maker and merge the results into your tree. Add your own bookmarks to web sites. Capture text, images, and entire web pages and merge them into the tree.