Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition

by Encore

Product Features

• Easy-to-use genealogy program for researching family history
• Access more than 5 billion records through Ancestry.com
• Search through the world's largest online family history collection
• Design personal keepsakes and projects with pre-designed templates
• Share your family tree with friends and relatives

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AAYAYM
• Item model number: 21918
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,201 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #58 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Genealogy
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Tracking your family roots is more than just a hobby, it's taking care of your family legacy. Whether you've already tracked back through three generations of family history, or you're just starting, Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition will make your task a whole lot easier and a lot more fun. In four easy, fun-filled steps, you can be sharing your family tree with friends and family world-wide.

Family Tree Maker makes it easy to enter information about your ancestors and relatives. View larger

Build a family tree with ease. View larger

Use online information databases such as Ancestry.com to find members of your family tree. View larger

Step One: Build Your Legacy
All you need to start with is the information you already have, such as a name, marriage details, and a birthplace. Simply gather your information, and you'll be on your way to building your legacy. The improved "edit individual" box simplifies the process of entering basic information about a person. It also makes it easier for you to see related sources for that person. And you can enter up to one megabyte of text to assure that your get the results you want.

Step Two: Searching for Your Ancestors
With the help of the U.S. Records Collection, Naturalization Records, Immigration Records, 12 Data CDs holding the Social Security Death Index, and the Ancestry.com search engine -- the largest online collection of family history information available -- Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition will take over from here. Just plug your information into the search fields, and in no time at all you'll have sorted through well over 1.3 billion names to find the right matches. Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition will then compare the results with the data that you have side-by-side. The "web merge" feature will let you import the information directly into your file -- instantly. Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition also utilized Ancestry.com's OneWorldTree service, designed to pull data from all across the Ancestry.com site to make family history easier and more rewarding than ever before.

Step Three: Design Your Own Tree
Using custom-built templates and design features, you can now build your own heirloom-quality family trees, charts and reports that bring your family legacy to life. The "charting companion for Family Tree Maker" feature lets you view, customize, print and publish generations of your family tree. You can choose from a variety of formats and more than 16 million color options.You can even add your own photos or images to your tree charts and to your family group sheet report. Once your tree is built, it's easy to navigate through generations of your family, and can even quickly jump to people on your tree with the convenient "bookmark" feature. And the "history feature" automatically tracks the last 30 individuals you edited, enabling you to jump to recently changed people.

Step Four: Sharing Your Legacy
Once you've created your family tree, it will be time to share it with you family and friends. Share your family history by printing professional quality family albums. Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition will help you publish your family Web page or email your trees around the world. You can also create and print professional quality family albums. A beautifully printed and well-researched family tree will make the perfect gift no matter the occasion.

New Features for 2006
Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition features streamlined data entry ability, making the task of entering your information easier than ever before. The search criteria that you use in your genealogy searches can now be customized to better match your search needs, and a plethora of useful research tips provided by Family Tree Maker 2006 Deluxe can help to greatly improve your research.

In addition, along with Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition, you get a one-year subscription to Ancestry.com (a $100 value), an introductory genealogy consultation (a $30 value), an official training DVD (a $15 value), Family Tree Workbook in PDF format (a $20 value), a copy of Deluxe Ancestry Reference Library Software (a $70 value), and an Official 400-Page User Guide (a $25 value).

Product Description

Research your family history with Family Tree Maker, the #1 selling genealogy program for 15 years. Access more than 5 billion records through Ancestry.com. Search through the world's largest online family history collection which includes the U.S. Records Collection, Naturalization Records, Historical Newspaper Collection and much more!

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FTM with a year of Ancestry is a great deal, February 17, 2006

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Katie BH "Katie BH" (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition (CD-ROM)

The previous reviewer misunderstood what Ancestry is. Ancestry is not a program. It is a website for genealogists (Ancestry.com) and provides access to all sorts of records, including federal and state censuses, military records, immigration records, archived newspaper articles, and thousands of family tree files already completed by other researchers - plus more. It's great fun and the fastest way to do genealogical research online. The FTM software integrates directly with Ancestry so that you can search through the program and import from online directly into your own files. Annual membership to Ancestry costs $179, so a $89 package that includes the FTM software PLUS a year's membership is a fantastic deal. I hope the previous reviewer takes another look and figures out how to use Ancestry.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent bargain for a good program, April 27, 2007

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Athena - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition (CD-ROM)

Family Tree Maker is consistently rated among the best genealogy programs. One unique feature of the program is the merge fuction that you can use to automatically add information found in online sources -- e.g. census, birth records, death records, etc. -- into your local data base with all the proper source citations.

You don't have to buy the newest version to get the latest function; you can actually update this version to FTM16 for free *and* get the benefit of a 1 year subscription to [...].

This is a good deal!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Family Tree Maker 2006, August 8, 2006

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Mary Anne K. (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2006 Collector's Edition (CD-ROM)

I found that this software was easy to install and easy to begin using. I am enjoying building my family tree. There are many nice features in the software, including the ability to share the tree on-line with my relatives. I highly recommend it.