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- Media: CD-ROM
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Store and organize. Back up your Family File to CD. Preserve your heritage by protecting your valuable Family Tree Maker data from viruses, hard drives crashes, and corrupted floppy disks. In the event that you should ever need your backup copy, you can restore it from the CD in seconds.
Copy and Paste Between Family Files
Now you can copy and paste individuals, family branches, or an entire tree from one Family File to another. New individuals are pasted exactly where you specify, and merged with any identical individuals in that file, so you don't have to worry about relationship errors.
View Two Family Files Simultaneously
View, compare, and edit Family Files side-by-side. You can check for similarities and differences between your files and ones you receive from family members or other genealogists, before or after merging.
Customize Family Tree Maker with Tabbed Preference Panels
Make Family Tree Maker run the way you want it to. Tabbed preference panels make it easier for you to find the tools and resources you want to control.
Merge Family Files More Easily
It's never been easier to append or merge data from one Family File to another! Family Tree Maker's new merge process walks you through the few simple steps to complete a merge. Whether you are merging two files, duplicate individuals, or importing new data into your file, you'll be able to do it in just seconds.
Standard Pedigree Tree
Simplify your research with blank Standard Pedigree Trees. Take them to the library or family reunion. It makes it easy to organize and record data when you can't bring your computer along.
Data Entry Wizard
This easy-to-use wizard gets you started on a solid foundation. Just fill in the blanks with the information you already know.
Store Countless Facts
Store a virtually unlimited number of facts for every individual in your Family File. We've already created fact categories (like births, deaths, marriages, emigration, etc.) so it's simple to use.
Multimedia Scrapbook
Every person in your Family File can have his or her own digital Scrapbook. Store and display almost any type of information--including sound, video, and text files--along with a wide variety of graphic formats.
Track Your Sources
Family Tree Maker has a sophisticated, yet simple-to-use system that records and tracks all the documents, articles, and other research sources that you've investigated. You'll never have to duplicate your investigative efforts.
Key Features: Find Ancestors
One-Click Searching to Find Leads on Your Ancestors
Family Tree Maker scours virtually every genealogy-specific site available on the Internet to create a ranked list of resources that are likely to contain information on your ancestors.
Step-by-Step Genealogy "How-To" Guide
The "How-To" Guide is your expert search companion. Use it to learn how to start, whom to contact, what to ask, and more--including built-in form letters and address directories that make requesting official records simple.
Search Tips Customized for Your Research
Let Family Tree Maker's Search Tips help you find your next research success. From vital records, to national and international archives, online resources, and more--the ideas keep coming.
Share Your Results. Export Family Books to PDF
Now you can share your Family Book with family members whether they have Family Tree Maker or not. You can easily create a professional-quality Family Book and export it as a PDF file to send to relatives anywhere in the world!
Add Notes to Family Books
No longer do you need to copy your Notes and paste them into your Family Book as a text item--with Family Tree Maker 11, Notes are added automatically with just one click and drag of the mouse.
Preview Your Family Book Before Printing
Take a final look at your masterpiece. You can view the complete layout of your Family Book, exactly as it will print, and make any necessary changes--saves time and paper.
Output to PDF
Our new Output to PDF feature allows you to e-mail your files, have them printed at a service bureau, or upload them to your free family page on Genealogy.com. You can also share your family trees (complete with photos, maps, and graphics) with family members who don't own Family Tree Maker.
Professionally Designed Templates
Take advantage of professional artwork to help you create beautiful family trees for gifts or display.
Publishing Center
The Publishing Center is where you find the tools and step-by-step wizards to create heirloom-quality Family Books and personal Home Pages. Easily preserve your research for generations to come.
Countless Heirloom-Quality Printouts
Display your family history with Family Tree Maker's wide array of attractive trees, reports, maps, and more--from one-of-a-kind personal keepsakes to beautiful heirloom-quality printouts.
All-in-One Tree
The All-in-One tree allows you to display every member of your Family File in one continuous tree. Create one for your next reunion--your family and friends will be delighted.
Maps and Timelines
Trace your family's journey through time and across continents. Maps show the migration of your family from the Old World to the new, while Timelines display your ancestors against the historic milestones that helped shape their lives--and yours.
Family Books
Family Tree Maker lets you combine your favorite printouts into a book, then automatically generates a Table of Contents, Index, and more. Print a keepsake copy for a loved one or publish it on your own personal Home Page to share with everyone.
Other tools include:
- Date calculator rapidly calculates ancestor's birth dates, ages of relatives at special events, and the day of the week that these events took place.
- Improved Family File Statistics box gives you interesting facts about the family tree you are working with, including the total number of individuals, number of marriages, average lifespan, earliest birth date, and number of text records.
- Relationship calculator
- Research journal
- "To Do" List
Product Description
Includes ten CDs with 1100 years of valuable historical data open the door to your past. Amazing creative projects like family trees, timelines, and even multimedia scrapbooks make it easy to share your findings with friends and loved ones. An easy-to-use Publishing Center provides the tools you need to create a secure personal home page for online sharing, too!
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137 of 140 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sometimes the most popular software is the best available,
By dinska "phoenixwinged" (Chicagoland, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Family Tree Maker 11 Deluxe (CD-ROM)
First of all, the current version out on the shelves, Family Tree Maker 11, as well as 10, do not have 35 CDs. It has the number given in the manufacturer's description above. I also have to add that these two recent editions do NOT have any ads within the program, nor do they tell you to update. This also must have been something else that occured in an earlier version.Now, I have to say that if you do most of your genealogy research via your PC you need to buy either Family Tree Maker Deluxe or Basic. I'm not saying this to be cute. I'm saying this because it comes with a reader that Genealogical.com uses for many of its CDs. Not only that, but if you publish your GEDcom on the web, FTM appears to have the most seamless process and translation of your GEDcom. I didn't start out with FTM, I started out with the Generations program, published by Sierra, bought out by Broderbund which is the same publisher of FTM, and not exactly the favored child. So, I felt I had to move on to FTM. You are going to have to spend some time learning the program. Luckily, the guide that comes with it is perfectly adequate and there is no need to buy the published book for it. Using the program, you will find the database well designed. When you add notes, though, you will find the interface a bit clunky. However, you're not going to find a better program out there. After purchasing FTM 10, I decided I would move on to the Master Genealogist, because I had heard it was more flexible regarding notes. It is, to a point, but it's a very unpleasant program to use in comparison, and the reports you can generate with FTM are surprisingly better. FTM version 11 lets you save/export in PDF files more than ever, which is very helpful if you have family members who do not own any genealogical software. Now, this said, the charts that FTM generates are horrible. Chances are you will either have to fill out blank ones by hand, if you don't want to spend an afternoon with the FTM printed pages, a tape dispenser and scissors. FTM does not even have a cascading pedigree chart, which will add to you spending a lot of time numbering what you do get out of it. Or you might have to buy a charting companion. My old Generations program has a great charting tool (Easy Tree) which I still use instead. As well, the family group sheets generated aren't very good. You can customize to have as little or as much information as you'd like, but the actual layout of the sheets are not exactly innate for the eye. You will do better by using the program, publishing a GEDcom on the web, and printing off of the host site. Seriously. The timelines, are also not helpful. Not as many people use timelines, but they are necessary in doing serious detective work on a family or if you are going to put together a retrospective on an individual's life. There are small extras that deserve mention, scrapbooks, which let you create a photo album, and/or slide show. (This is not a digital scrapbook, just the term they use for organizing photos by person.) I found it an adequate tool, but I would rather have the option of adding photos to group sheets, charts and reports instead. There are data CDs included in the package. Basically, they're just a tool to get you on the web and researching, which is what you know to do already. They are superfluous. It should be noted that FTM is connected to genealogy.com, which has been bought out by ancestry.com. I don't know how this will affect doing research via your FTM window in the future. On the Family Tree Maker web pages themselves. They're very pleasant pages but aren't of much use to you until you have done quite a lot of specific research already. They're not databases or photo albums, but places to display research plus a few photos and a brief introduction. Perfectly nice, but not what you might think you get. The good news is that the program walks you through creating your page and it turns out well. In any case, the obvious strengths of FTM are data entry, report generating, and web publishing. The weaknesses are charting and group sheet generating. You may or may not find it helpful as a research aid. So, this is not at all a five star product but it's still the best you can buy.
54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty darn good,
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This review is from: Family Tree Maker 11 Deluxe (CD-ROM)
I came to this product reluctantly. I own The Master Genealogist (TMG, for short). I bought it because it was supposed to be such a powerful program. Perhaps so, but I found navigating so frustrating that I figured I had nothing to loose by buying Family Tree Maker. Well, it was good decision. The program is pretty intuitive. I have been able to quickly enter data and produce useful reports. I would second the advice to get the stand-alone Family Tree program and skip buying the "deluxe" edition. A lot of those resources you can subscribe to online. Don't waste your money on what you may never need. From my experience, the purchase of the core program will not be a waste of your money.
47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Useless Data CD's,
By Amnada78 "amanda_in78" (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Family Tree Maker 11 Deluxe (CD-ROM)
The program itself is great for organizaing the information. I love the actual program for all of the information that I can attatch to my files as well as the ability to include/exclude people from trees and the different tress, maps, reports that I can create. I can also create books and other ways to share my data. The acual program I would rate as 5/5.Unfortunately this version comes with additional "information" cd's. These are a waste. Buy the program alone. The additional cd's are a waste of space, money and time. Even the program to search the cd's take a long time and do not actually provide you with data. I rate this product with only 3 stars because of all of the useless garbage attatched to it.
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