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- ASIN: B002MCYVMW
- Release Date: 8 Oct 2009
By : Avanquest Software
Price : £19.99
Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Ancestry.co.uk Family Tree Maker has always made it easy to discover your story, preserve your legacy and share your unique heritage as you explore your family tree on your personal computer. And now, Ancestry.co.uk Family Tree Maker 2010 introduces even more storytelling and organisation tools that can add new life to your family history.Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting on your family tree, Family Tree Maker 2010 can help you create a family tree faster, easier, and better than ever before. The end result is a family history that you and your family will treasure for years to come.Ancestry.co.uk Family Tree Maker 2010 lets you easily:
- Organise your family story privately and conveniently on your personal computer
- Create charts and reports in a variety of formats to share with friends and family
- Discover new information anywhere on the web and add it to your tree instantly
- Integrate with the 820 million historical records on Ancestry.co.uk. Even receive hints linking you to matching records
- Incorporate photos, documents, audio, video and other files into your tree
- View Interactive maps and lists that give you a bird's-eye view of where members of your family come
- Create Timelines that highlight personal, family, and world events
- Document AND rate each of your citations with powerful sourcing tools
- Merge duplicate individuals, calculate dates, create to-do lists, and more with easy-to-use-tools
- Import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestry File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree
- New tools and charts that let you tell a richer story
- Better ways to organise photos and other media
- Slideshows you can create with images in your tree
- Publish beautiful family books made from your tree to share with family ; friends
- Standard source templates that help you reference the right information
- New Person View - A view of your relationship to everyone in your tree
- Extended family birthday calendars
- Scanner support - Add scanned images directly into your tree
- Family migration paths over time
- Easy family tree download from Ancestry.co.uk
- Better Performance - Experience faster load times and navigation
- Your software works seamlessly with the site so you can easily search for your ancestors and automatically add the information you discover to your tree.
- You could find missing facts about your family in census records, military records, image collections and other historical resources.
- Learn family history hints and tips at the Ancestry Online Learning Centre.
Search and access over 820 million names - The UK's largest collection of online family history records!
- Census records including the 1841-1901 censuses for England, Wales and Scotland
- Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes from 1837-2005 for England and Wales
- British WW1 Military records including pension and service records and medal indexes
- Newspapers and periodicals
- British Phone Books 1880-1984
- Deeds, court documents and wills
- University Alumni
Bonus Materials Also included:A 6 Month Essentials Membership to Ancestry.co.ukSearch and access over 820 million names - The UK's largest collection of online family history records! Family Tree Maker 2010 Getting Started GuideFollow simple instructions to begin a project and master the program's basic features. Family Tree Maker Little Book of AnswersIt's easy to record your ancestry when your family setup is relatively straightforward. But what do you do if your relatives don't fit the cookie-cutter mould? Whether it's figuring out the best way to enter adopted children, or creating a family health history, The Little Book of Answers shows you how Family Tree Maker can work best for you.
3 Free Issues of Your Family Tree MagazineSubscribe to the most respected genealogy magazine for 1 year, and receive your first 3 issues FREE+. The magazine offers practical, expert advice on all areas of family research, an array of essential resources, genealogy questions ; answers and cover gifts on every issue. Save up to £44 on Arrowfile Genealogy Storage ProductsOrganise and Safeguard your Family History for Future Generations. Used by museums, Arrowfile's refill pages are ACID-FREE to protect your precious photos, documents and certificates. Spend £19.99 or more on refill pages and claim matching leather albums worth £44.90+
Discounts on Ancestry.co.uk productsSave 20% on Ancestry DNA testing. Discover your ancient ancestry, validate existing research and break through genealogical dead ends. Save 25% on MyCanvas. Create beautiful pages to showcase your documents, photos and charts and print professional books and posters. Interactive Training TutorialStep-by-step hints and tips to help you grow your family tree. Family Tree Maker 2010 PLATINUM - Contents at a Glance
- 6-month Ancestry.co.uk Essentials Membership (worth over £65)
- Family Tree Maker program CD-ROM
- Family Tree Maker Getting Started Guide
- Family Tree Maker Training Tutorial
- Family Tree Maker Little Book of Answers
- 20% discount on Ancestry DNA Testing+
- 25% off Mycanvas Printed Books ; Posters+
- Save up to £44 off Arrowfile Genealogy Albums ; Acid Free Archival Pages+
- 3 FREE ISSUES of your Family Tree Magazine when you subscribe for 1 year+
Family Tree Maker 2010 Platinum Edition (PC CD)
Customer Reviews
I have been using FTM 2010 for several weeks, and am very satisfied with it. Having previously used FTM 2009, there are several features that I have found to be considerably improved. The most significant of these are the 'enhanced nodes' in the 'People' workspace, the improved mapping controls in the 'Places' workspace, and the better integration with Ancestry website. The 'enhanced nodes' feature adds thumbnails and lifespan dates to the 'boxes' in the pedigree. If you have several generations of ancestors with the same name, this greatly reduces the likelihood of confusion when working on your tree. One of the most irritating aspects of the previous version of FTM was its propensity to mis-locate places on the map, even when you entered the correct county and country. This issue has been addressed in the 2010 version by the provision of a push-pin facility, which enables the user to override the software's automatic choice. The integration with Ancestry allows both uploading trees to, and downloading them from the website. However, the trees are still not synchronised, so that working on either one will not update the other. This is one aspect that will hopefully be addressed in the future. The only other major gripe I have with the software is that there is no facility to identify individuals on group photographs. If you have a wedding-group photo with a dozen or more people on it, you can very easily link all the individuals to the one photograph, but in order to know who is who, you have to write tedious descriptions - "the third person from the left on the second row from the front, etc" - in order for them to be of any real value. Having previously been a user of the (free) Family Tree Builder software, which has this facility, it is disappointing that FTM have not made something similar available. Notwithstanding this, the software is both very easy and satisfying to use, and has advanced features that will suit the most demanding of family historians.
I originally purchased FTM Deluxe which claimed to have 3 months subscrption to ancestry, but only had 2 weeks. This edition had 6 months and when on special offer was worth considering as subscription to ancestry is £100-150 annually.
The software is powerful. There is starting guide (with a demo to work though- this is based in Diana Spencer and I found it upsetting to have her as an example) there is also a hints and tips booklet, v helpful when the basics are mastered. There is also an online video overviews and help functions.
The basic operation is quite simple, but soon becomes quite complex to use the full facilities. There are several 'views' of the data. It's not clear to me whether it is better to have one large tree with every one on it or split into smaller files with significant branches of the family.
People- where the classic family tree is shown -child their parents, the parents parents etc.. Here two to four generations can be seen in overview. The platinum version shows DOB-DOD and will display a thumb nail image if one is available. If connected to the web ancestry displays a leaf sign to indicate info may be available on this individual. A niggle here is that only one sibling is displayed. So if your grandfather had 4 children only the direct descendants of one is shown at any one time. To access the others you need to highlight grandfather and the children will be displayed at the bottom of the screen. I have one ancestor who married twice and had 14 children. The software asks for a prefered partner and they and their children are shown. You need to recall there is a seconds wife and then switch to them to see that part of the family. To get an overview of the ~200 relatives I've had to print a family tree and stick accoss 2m of wall!
There is a detailed person view where birth date, place, christening, occupation, residence, marriage can be displayed. Facts can be preferred or alternative where there is conflicting information. The facts are customisable so you can include those which are relevant or of interest. When connecting to the web data can be copied into the record- saves typing errors and a source included. This is a v useful tool as historical data is not always accurate and two pieces of data can be source referenced so you don't have to remeber where you found the info.
There is a places view which is linked to a global mapping device and will show maps or ariel pictures. The software is US based however and has tendancy to assume first that addresses is in US. It doesn't recongnise a lot of UK locations and these then have to be manually adjusted. I had hoped this would be improved between 09 and 10 versions of software but changes are not noticeable to me. In this view details can be seen of all relatives who lived in a certain area. If census data is enterred to add locations on different dates then the movement of families can be tracked. It is helpful when viewing census data as if a family expanded between the 10 year periods the names of a siblings occupation and place of residence is a good clue to locating the right record. Using the mapping you can see the names of small villages say 5 miles from previous location. That said you could use google earth to do the same.
Media can be added photo's and source data. For example freeBMD on line allows access to scanned images of summary birth, marriage and death data which can be downloaded from internet.
There is a publication section with some additional formats for 10 platiunum vs 09 deluxe. These have some degree of customisation but I've not found a report or chart which can be built from scratch with just what I want. For example there is a place report. The default gives every one, you can't select a place but have to selecte individuals which means going back to the place view and writing a list of names associated with that place. Reports/charts can be made in .pdf format so can be emailed or uploaded to the web to share with others.
Finally there is a websearch view with a summary of your selected individual and possible matches. This section only gives access to limited data if you don't subscribe. A lot of info is available free however if you search for it. As subsriptions and copies of original BMD certs can be expensive I recommend finding all the free stuff before taking out a subscription. There is a useful task list where you can record details you're searching for, v useful as the tree gets big.
The software does allow for real life and handles mutliple partners, single sex relationships, adoptions, illegitimacy and so on. It is however like printers which are cheap to buy but expensive to get printer cardriges for. Here the softare is good value but cost of accessing data expensive.
I've had a few technical niggles. The software loaded ok, but 3 after days in failed to start. There were several sources of help none of which worked. However the software will start under another user profile on the same pc. Our pc is several years old so this may be more of a reflection of the pc than the software.
Family Tree Maker 2010 Platinum Edition (PC CD)
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