Family Tree Maker 2012 Platinum Edition (PC)

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• ASIN: B005NPFKX4
• Release Date: 14 Oct 2011
  

By : Avanquest Software
Price : £39.47

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Everyone has a family. Every family has a story. Family Tree Maker® 2012 Platinum Edition can help you find yours!
With exciting new features to help you, Ancestry.co.uk™ Family Tree Maker® 2012 makes it easier than ever to discover your family story, preserve your legacy and share your unique heritage.
Interactive Training Tutorials give you step-by-step instructions, and hints ; tips to help build your tree and you can also join Ancestry.co.uk's online community where you can find and share information with others.


Family Tree Maker® 2012 lets you easily:

• Research and preserve your family story on your computer.
• Create charts and reports to share with family and friends - View and share your tree from different perspectives: location, migration path, family name and more.
• Integrate with the 895 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.
• Write Smart Stories™ that automatically update when facts in your tree change. Features improved content generation and editing options.
• Synchronise desktop and online Ancestry.co.uk™ family trees with the NEW TreeSync™ feature.

Family Tree Maker® 2012 features a host of new and exciting ways to discover your family story:
Follow the Hints - Just enter what you know into your family tree. Hints (green leaf icons) will soon appear, linking you to historical records and trees that might hold answers about your ancestors.
Save to your desktop - Saves information you discover on Ancestry.co.uk™ to your family tree, complete with an electronic copy of the original record.
Maps and Timelines - View maps to see where your ancestors have lived and track your family's migration paths. And, highlight key events that have occurred in their lives.


IMPROVED - Manage photos and more - Add photos, audio and video files, documents etc. into your tree. Easy-to-use tools help you manage them faster than ever before!
IMPROVED - Smart Stories™. Write Smart Stories™ in two easy steps using improved page designs and templates. Each time you edit your tree, Smart Stories update automatically.
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 - location, migration path, family name, birthdays and more!
NEW - Blended Families View. See combined families including step families and adoptees at a glance.
NEW TREE SYNC™ - Build your tree using Family Tree Maker® and upload it to Ancestry.co.uk™. Whether you're working online or on your desktop, you can keep your tree in sync with just the click of a button (and even update it using our FREE iPhone and iPad apps.). Share your tree with other family members and choose who can view and update it.

INCLUDES A 6 MONTH PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP TO ANCESTRY.CO.UK™ WORTH OVER £77††!
Explore millions of fascinating records and delve into your family's past. Who will you discover? Ancestry.co.uk™ is the UK's favourite family history website. New records are constantly being added, so there are always new discoveries waiting for you. Search our records, start your family tree and we'll help you uncover your ancestors' stories.


Family Tree Maker 2012® PLATINUM EDITION includes 6 months 'PREMIUM' Membership to Ancestry.co.uk™. Ideal for the family historian who has started their family tree and wants to travel even further back into their family history, you can search key historical records.

Your 6 months 'Premium' Membership gives you access to:

• Guaranteed access to all new UK collections
• Exclusive parish records all the way back to the 16th century
• Military records from both World Wars and other key conflicts
• Immigration records revealing your family's origins
• More than 100 Irish collections, including crucial census substitutes
• The UK census records from 1841 - 1911
• Plus, all our other UK records

You'll also get:
Interactive Family Tree Maker® Training TutorialsGet step-by-step instructions, hints ; tips to help you build and grow your family tree
Quick Start Guide for Family Tree Maker® 2012 (Electronic Version)Get started with the basics of using the software
Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker® (Electronic-version)Learn Family Tree Maker's most popular features with quick lessons that make research fast and fun.
PLUS, we've teamed up with some of the UK's best-known genealogy companies to bring you a host of fantastic offers designed to help with your family history journey! You'll find a subscription offer for Your Family Tree Magazine, money-off Living Relative Search and some great discounts on genealogical archive folders ; storage boxes, Cassini family history maps and Hall of Names heraldic gifts.+


Source NPD Techworld 31/5/09 - 1/8/10†The Ancestry.co.uk™ 'Premium' Membership begins upon activation of the 6-month free subscription with a valid credit or debit card, but no money will be taken during the free subscription period. To ensure uninterrupted service, your membership will be automatically renewed at the end of the free subscription period for a further 6 months of paid subscription. 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 subscription is due to end, otherwise the full price of a 6-month 'Premium' membership will be automatically debited from your credit or debit card. Assuming that you do not cancel, at the end of the 6 months paid subscription period your membership will roll over into an annual membership that will automatically renew at the end of each year, unless you cancel before each renewal. 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 of 6th September 2011.
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Family Tree Maker 2012 Platinum Edition (PC)

 

Product Features

• Easily discover your family history with the NEW 2012 version of the World’s No. 1 selling family history software
• Family Tree Maker 2012 Platinum Edition is ideal for the family historian who has started their research, but needs to go back further in time!
• NEW Tree Sync - Synchronise Desktop and Online Ancestry.co.uk trees – keep your tree up-to-date wherever you are!
• 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
• Includes a 6 Month ‘PREMIUM’ Membership to Ancestry.co.uk worth over 77 with access to over 895 million family history records
• Integrate seamlessly with Ancestry.co.uk and receive hints and links to matching records in your tree

Customer Reviews

Firstly a quick review of Amazon
I preordered this a month before release, it was dispatched 12 hours before the official release date so I had it before it was actually released.
Amazon have a price guarantee so when it was reduced by £10 I got an email saying that I had been refunded the difference, a nice surprise.
Now the software itself
I currently use Family Maker 2010 and was about to pay for a 'premium membership' to ancestry.com to further my research and was not considering updating, but I noticed that when you buy this you get 6 months premium membership free with it, which is what I was going to buy anyway so the purchase was pretty much a no brainer, effectively I got the software for free.
As for the software, it installed flawlessly, if you are in the market for some Family Tree software for the first time or looking to upgrade I can highly recommend.
Some of the standout features are the 'Blended Family View' this gives you a clear view of how families are these days, i.e step families, adoptions etc, something that was always difficult before.
The 'smart stories' is a nice feature, although available in my 2010 version, they have tightened it up making it nicer and much easier to use and more asthetically pleasing.
If you have never used Family Tree software before, this is a great way to start, there are so many features that you can't fail to be impressed, it can be a bit of a learning curve but if you stick with it you will end up with a fantastic record of your family tree, its trivial to produce professional looking trees with photos dates etc included.
If you have used previous versions, the upgrade is nice but not a massive difference however if you want access to ancestry.com for free for six months, then it's effectivly a free upgrade.

I previously reviewed FTM 2011 for Amazon vine and the only major issue with it was the lack of automatic synching with your family tree on ancestry.co.uk. This has been sorted in the new 2012 release so hence the 5 stars!
Here's an updated review for the FTM 2012: The programme installed flawlessly on my laptop (windows 7). Please note if upgrading from a previous version it doesn't automatically uninstall the old version. You have to do that manually. It installs as a new programme.
FTM is designed to work seamlessly with Ancestry.co.uk and comes with 6 months premium UK membership worth 77 pounds. Ancestry.co.uk is brilliant and enables you to share your growing family tree with other family members who can fill in the gaps and add missing details. Premium membership enables you to search all the UK archives and the programme alerts you to possible matches both in the archives and in other peoples family trees. Please note that the 1911 census has not yet been fully digitized.
Pros:
Simple interface
Integrates with ancestry.co.uk and changes made online or in FTM are automatically synched
Free iPhone/iPad app so you can edit your tree on your iPhone/iPad
Automatically maps addresses
Improved charts and reports (useful when sharing your research with family members who arent computer literate as well as for gifts)
Cons:
The display of the family tree itself on FTM can be a bit hard to navigate compared to the display on the iPhone/iPad and online which is much more intuitive. You can't scroll or use your mouse to "drag" through it like you can online - you have to select a person and click up or down through their family members to view the tree.
With the automatic synching there is a risk that you may lose info if one of your collaborators accidentally deletes something - so choose their access rights carefully! (You can specify this)
My rating is for the programme as part of the whole ancestry.co.uk package. I think it is a fantastic product and I have really enjoyed researching my family tree. To be honest I find it easier to enter data using the iPhone app but FTM is great for printing out charts (which you cant do online without paying for it).
All in all a fantastic product! Who do you think you are? Take the plunge and find out!

 

Family Tree Maker 2012 Platinum Edition (PC)