Family Tree Maker 2012 World Edition (PC)

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• ASIN: B005NPFKXE
• Release Date: 14 Oct 2011
  

By : Avanquest Software
Price : £60.49

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Everyone has a family. Every family has a story. Family Tree Maker® 2012 World 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. And now, Family Tree Maker® 2012 World Edition provides the most extensive access to worldwide records, plus tools to create your own website and keep all your precious memories safe.
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 7 billion global 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.

Plus! EXCLUSIVE to the WORD EDITION:

• Access to Ancestry.co.uk's™ global record collections - including UK, Eire, Australia, Canada, USA, Europe and more, to help you trace your family tree worldwide. Even become part of the global Ancestry Community to share information, post queries and share tips.
• Backup ; Protect Software - Keep all your valuable photos, records, documents and certificates safe.
• Create your Own Website Software - Create your own website to share your family tree and keep in touch with family members across the world.

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 WORLDWIDE MEMBERSHIP TO ANCESTRY.CO.UK™ WORTH OVER £113††!
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® WORLD EDITION includes 6 months 'WORLDWIDE' Membership to Ancestry.co.uk™. Perfect for family historians with ancestors in other countries and where your family history journey will take you overseas. Enjoy unlimited access to Ancestry.co.uk's entire global record collection including UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada and the USA. From embarkation papers to immigrations documents and slave registers - if we have records, you can view them - wherever in the world you are!

Your 6 Month 'Worldwide' Membership gives you access to:

• Unlimited access to our entire library of over 7 billion records
• Guaranteed access to all our new releases
• Emigration records from America, Canada, Australia and more
• Overseas consensus, electoral rolls and birth, marriage and death records
• Exclusive UK parish, military and immigration records
• The UK census records from 1841 - 1911
• Plus, all our other worldwide records

Backup and Protect Your Precious Memories
As you embark on your family history journey, you'll start to gather valuable information about your ancestors, including family photos, video clips, certificates and records, e-mails, music etc. Backup and Protect ensures that your PC and everything on it, is fully protected against disaster!

• Safeguard valuable digital belongings from system crashes, virus infections and hard drive failures.
• Automatic scheduling takes the hassle out of remembering to backup.
• Backup to CD, DVD, USB drives, separate partitions, hard drive or network.

Create your own Family Tree Website
One of the most rewarding parts of researching your family history is sharing the results with family and friends. Using Create your own Website, you can create your very own customised family website with a domain name and 14 days free web hosting all included!

• Connect your family members from all over the world and stay in touch with loved ones.
• Share photos, video clips, family recipes, stories, special moments and memories.
• Fully customisable with no web design experience or html programming required!

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® (400 page Printed 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™ 'Worldwide' 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 'Worldwide' 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 World 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 World Edition is great for family historians whose ancestral journey will take them overseas!
• 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 ‘WORLDWIDE’ Membership to Ancestry.co.uk worth over 113 with access to over 7 billion global records
• 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
• Smart Stories – Write family stories that automatically update when facts change in your tree
• Includes the printed Family Tree Maker Companion Guide with 400 pages of essential information on how best to research your tree

Customer Reviews

First thing that should be noted are the differences between FTM 2012 and FTM 2011:
1. Tree Sync
2. Combined Family View (If a person has children with more than one partner then all children can be displayed on the same screen - I've found it useful but it is quite a minor detail)
3. Improved Smart Stories (They are better than 2011's Smart Stories, but they still read like a machine has written them - I wouldn't bother!)
4. New report and chart options - haven't tried these yet.
5. New tutorials - haven't tried these yet.
Also, for those updating from FTM Version 16, then apparently it will detect that ; display an interface that looks more like older versions of FTM.
And that's about it as far as changes go.
It comes in a very big box with a 370 page guide to FTM 2012 - it seems quite comprehensive, though I haven't read it all yet. It also has 3 discs:
1. FTM 2012
2. Backup and Protect, a program called Perfect Image, Version 12 (I can't comment on this as I haven't installed it. FTM 2010 World Edition came with Version 11 of the same program for those who are interested.)
3. Create Your Own Website (Web Easy 8, exactly the same version as in FTM 2010 World Edition)
Installation on Windows 7 was straightforward and reasonably quick, but be aware that if you have a previous version of FTM on your computer the new installation will automatically convert your Family Tree Maker files to the latest version.
When you start the program, the Plan screen is the most different as it has a box for Tree Sync. Most other views look very similar to last year's version.
Tree Sync is the big difference as it allows you to update your tree and will automatically or manually make the changes on your Ancestry family tree. It can't sync a tree that already exists though, you have to upload a tree to Ancestry again for it to work. Compared to some, my tree is quite small - about 400 names, 200 media / reference files - and it took just a few minutes for the tree data to upload, about an hour for all the media to be uploaded too. I decided not to have the automatic sync turned on, prefering to manually sync my trees, I've done it several times and the whole process has been smooth and quick. Of course, you don't have to link your tree on Ancestry should you wish not to. I'm really pleased with the process though.
If all you want the program for is simply to update from 2011 to 2012 then it's probably not worth the money for the World Edition. However if, as I did, you want it because it's a cheap way of getting a world Ancestry subscription, then it is excellent value for money.
Update (30/10/2011):
One of the things I like about Family tree Maker is that the software comes with two licences - I can install it on my laptop as well as my desktop. I have done that as I was away for a week. I keep my family tree on a portable hard drive - it's just a case of plugging the drive into whichever machine I happen to be using. When I started it up on my laptop though, the family tree came up as not uploaded or synchronised to Ancestry. Rather than worry about that, I just worked on my tree, then when I next used my desktop, I synchronised all my changes without any problems.
Update (03/12/2011:
Had a hard drive failure on my computer so had to replace it and re-install everything including FTM 2012. My family tree is kept on an external disk and I open it from there, but when I opened it on the re-installed program it didn't recognise it as linked to the Ancestry tree any more. Having been in touch with Ancestry's support, it appears that there is no way to re-link it. I'll have to go throught the whole process of uploading the tree ; media again, as well as re-inviting all the people I had given access and, to avoid confusion, I'll delete the old tree. This is a major flaw as far as I can see, and one that will need fixing. It's enough for me to knock a star off, but the program is still woth buying if you need the subscription to Ancestry. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother upgrading now.

This review refers to the Family Tree Maker 2012 World edition. My previous experience with Family Tree Maker was with the 2006 non world version. I was a bit reluctant initially to try and integrate my large family tree into this new version, but I needn't have worried it imported it seamlessly with no problems and even gave me additional information possibly relating to my ancestors. Like earlier versions of Family Tree I have not found the 2012 one particularly intuitive, but I am in the early stages of its use at the moment, so hopefully I will find things get easier as I go along. The Companion Guide by Tana L Pedersen included in the box set is very good - when you can find what you are looking for - no such book was included in the earlier versions so this is an added bonus. I have not tried either of the other two pieces of software included in the package 'Essentials Backup and Protect' or 'Essentials Create your own Website Version 2' so cannot comment on them. A word of caution though - as a current subscriber to the Platinum version on Ancestry.co.uk I had great difficulty in accessing the 6 month Worldwide Membership to Ancestry.com including in the software package. For some reason my free 6 months membership was added to my Platinum version and not the Worldwide one. I tried using Ancestry Help but the email I received in reply was absolutely useless. In the end I rang Ancestry.co.uk free phone helpline and a very helpful young lady spent about 10 minutes on the phone sorting the problem out. As a result I know have Ancestry Worldwide running until the end of December 2012 (this is because my current subscription had over six months left to run). I would recommend taking advantage of the 6 months Worldwide Membership if you have ancestors etc. outside the UK. However it is essential to cancel this subscription at least one month before the expiry date as you will be charged the full amount for the coming year. I was somewhat concerned to read of another reviewers bad experience when their computer went belly up and of their problems when trying to reinstall Ancestry and all their information, as I will soon be buying a new pc and trust that my back ups will be ok when I transfer all my data etc. to the new one.

 

Family Tree Maker 2012 World Edition (PC)