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- ASIN: B003S3RLLW
- Release Date: 15 Oct 2010
By : Avanquest Software
Price : £23.98
Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Everyone has a family. Every family has a story. Family Tree Maker 2011 Platinum can help you find yours.
With more than 100 enhancements to help you, Ancestry.co.uk Family Tree Maker 2011 makes it easier than ever to discover your family story, preserve your legacy and share your unique heritage.
Family Tree Maker 2011 lets you easily:
- Research and preserve your family story on your computer.
- Create charts and reports to share with family and friends.
- Integrate with the 860 million records on Ancestry.co.uk and download new information directly into your tree.
- Receive hints linking you to matching records on Ancestry.co.uk.
- Add photos, documents, audio and video into your tree.
- View timelines and interactive maps highlighting events and places in your ancestors' lives.
Ancestry.co.uk Family Tree Maker 2011 - What's New?
- Write family stories that automatically update when facts change in your tree.
- Organise photos, audio and video files and documents with drag and drop simplicity.
- View more events that happened during your ancestors' lives. Even edit, delete or add your own historical events.
- 5 new report styles and 4 new fan chart design.
- Enhance your charts with new backgrounds and embellishments.
- Automatically number every person in your tree for quick reference.
- Improved integration with Ancestry.co.uk.
Integrate with Ancestry.co.uk Automatically saves information you find online directly into your tree, complete with an electronic copy of the original record. Improved - Manage photos and more Store photos, audio and video files, electronic records and more right inside Family Tree Maker. New tools help you to manage them faster than ever before.
New - Learn more from other members Ancestry.co.uk has a helpful community of millions where you can find and share information with other enthusiasts. You could easily find other members researching your ancestors, compare notes and discover more together. New - Free iPhone App Upload your family tree to Ancesty.co.uk and then easily view and share it on the go. Put your ancestors on the map View maps to see where your ancestors may have lived - and track your family's migration paths.
Improved - Maps and Timelines View maps to see where your ancestors have lived and highlight key events that have occurred in their lives. New - Create Smart Stories Drag and drop facts from your tree to story pages that update automatically each time you edit your tree. Improved - Charts and Reports Choose from hundreds of customisable chart options and create reports that let you see and share your tree from different perspectives - by location, migration path, family name and more.Share your tree Upload your tree to Ancestry.co.uk and e-mail invites to your family so they can view your tree. You can even create books and birthday calendars to print.
Ideal for the family historian who wants to travel even further back into their family history, you can search key historical records including:
- Census records including the 1841-1901 censuses for England, Scotland and Wales.
- Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes from 1837-2005 for England and Wales.
- Military records including British Army WW1 Records.
- Newspapers and Periodicals.
- The British Phone Books 1880-1984.
- Deeds, court documents and wills.
- University Alumni.
- PLUS Pre 1837 parish and probate records.
- Irish records collection.
Plus you'll also get: Interactive Family Tree Maker Training Tutorials Get step-by-step instructions, hints and tips to help you build and grow your family tree. Printed Quick Start Guide for Family Tree Maker 2011 Get started with the basics of using the software. New - Printed Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker 2011 Learn Family Tree Maker's most popular features with quick lessons that make research fast and fun. Over 350 pages of invaluable information. Your Family Tree Magazine Subscription Offer Subscribe to the most respected genealogy magazine for 1 year, and receive your first 3 issues for just £1. The magazine offers practical, expert advice on all areas of family research, plus an array of essential resources+ 25% Discount on Ancestry.co.uk's My Canvas Create beautiful pages to showcase your documents, photos and charts and print professional books and posters+ 30% Discount on Genealogy Folders A secure way to index your family history photos and other documents+
†The Ancestry.co.uk Premium Membership begins upon activation of the free subscription with a valid credit or debit card but no money will be taken during the free subscription period. To cancel your membership without incurring a charge to your credit or debit card, go to www.Ancestry.co.uk, simply login and go to 'My Account', click on 'Cancel Subscription' at least 2 days before the free trial subscription is due to end, otherwise 100% of the monthly Premium membership price will be automatically debited from your credit or debit card. Use of Ancestry.co.uk is subject to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. See www.Ancestry.co.uk for full details. †† Based on the price of a monthly Premium package subscription at Ancestry.co.uk as at 1st October 2010. Requires software download. All offers are subject to availability and may change without notice. Press awards relate to an earlier version of the software
Family Tree Maker 2011 Platinum (PC)
Product Features
- Easily discover your family history with the new 2011 version of the World’s No. 1 selling family history software
- Create family books and hundreds of different charts and reports to share with family and friends
- Add photos, documents, audio and video files directly into your tree
- Access millions of family history records with a FREE† 6 Month PREMIUM Membership to Ancestry.co.uk worth over £77
- Integrate seamlessly with Ancestry.co.uk and receive hints and links to matching records in your tree
- View timelines and interactive maps highlighting events and places in your ancestors’ lives
- NEW – Write family stories that automatically update when facts change in your tree
- Printed Quick Start Guide to Family Tree Maker 2011 – Get to grips with the basics and start building your tree
- NEW – Printed Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker 2011 – Over 350 pages of invaluable information
- Interactive Training Tutorials give you step-by-step instructions and hints ; tips to help build your tree
Customer Reviews
The two previous upgrades have been little more than bugfixes and a couple of minor new features, which have been greeted by scorn in many reviews on Amazon. This upgrade is rather different, offering various significant improvements.
The addition of automatic person and relationship numbering is long overdue, but goes some way to solving the problem of getting the right "Joe Bloggs" in a Bloggs family full of Joes.
The extension of "fastfields" to description fields is very welcome. No more typing in "agricultural labourer" or "domestic servant" umpteen times! FTM now guesses what you are typing. This also removes many typographical errors.
The Timeline view benefits from being customizable. This is very useful, because users in the UK can now modify "The Boer Wars" so they appear in British or World historical events instead of just African. You can now add other historical events that are important to your family, or remove those that are not. This is American software, so it lists various events that mean nothing much outside America. It lists "Ford Model T Manufactured in Detroit" under "World History" but doesn't mention "The Blitz" or "VE Day" or "British National Health Service launched" at all, all of which are important historical events in Britan. Well now you can put all that right.
Having said this, the improvement has robbed us of the amusement to be had from seeing things like "Battle Of Little Big Horn" listed among the historical events that might be relevant to one's "agricultural labourer" ancestors living in Norfolk!
Places now actually understands that you are in the UK and not America. When you in the UK search for "Oxford" it no longer assumes you mean "Oxford Alabama". This makes it almost unnecessary to resort to Googling Bing Maps all the time (the irony being that FTM uses Bing Maps).
Media management is a little better. The reports are significantly better, but they still do not include a datestamp (so you know when a particular report was created). Web Search is now tied-in more closely with FTM, and seems to run more smoothly too.
The user interface has had a minor polish. It is now green (was blue) and has some new toolbar icons. The People view (the one with the family tree) is easier to navigate, though it doesn't come close to the fluidity and ease of the Ancestry app that they offer (for free) on iPhone (which looks fantastic on iPad).
Sources can still get in a bit of a knot though, especially where copies of sources occur. I found that compacting the database and then restarting FTM sorts that out.
The user guide is now in a printed book. That's handy but I prefer to use the PDF copy that comes on the CD. Their technical author does a pretty good job, but she would do well to concentrate on documenting the step-by-step procedures more consistently. For a technical author, her grammar is a bit slack, too.
One last thing - FTM comes in a much smaller box than before. About time too. The huge empty box it used to come in was a bit silly.
Overall, it's a worthy update. It's not spectacular, but for once is genuinely worth the money. As for the future, I am not convinced that Ancestry will continue with desktop software of this kind for many more years. The huge improvements being made in Ancestry's web-based FTM software shows where they are spending their software development budget. I predict that, in 2-3 years, we'll not be installing FTM on our computers at all, but will be doing the whole thing via a web-based applicaton (in other words, doing it the Cloud Computing way). That bodes well for instant software updates, and far better integration between their web-search tools and the users' FTM databases.
I had a very early version of FTM and wished to update it. I was nervous about doing so in case I lost anything. I have Windows 7 premium and uploaded my old FTMs before purchasing the 2011 version. I had no problems at all, all my media was transferred and I successfully merged my paternal line with my maternal line. I adore it.
Pam
Family Tree Maker 2011 Platinum (PC)
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