Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]

by Nova Development Corp

Product Features

• Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe can help you create a family tree faster, easier, and better than ever before
• Deluxe version includes discounts on Ancestry.com products and The Standard Ancestry.com Reference Library DVD
• Import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree
• Easily add records and images from the millions of available historical records at Ancestry.com
• Bring your family tree alive with attractive charts and reports; photos, audio, and video; timelines and interactive maps

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002ASAEHE
• Item model number: 17630
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 9, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,672 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #15 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Genealogy

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Family Tree Maker makes it easy to discover your story, preserve your legacy and share your unique heritage as you explore your family tree on your personal computer. Family Tree Maker 2010 introduces even more rich storytelling and organization tools that can add new life to your family history.

Discover your story, preserve your legacy and share your unique heritage. Click to enlarge.

Once you've started your tree, you can add photos, video, audio and more. You can also create and print a variety of interactive maps, timelines, charts and reports.

Family Tree Maker 2010 also includes a subscription to Ancestry.com--the world's largest online collection of family history resources, featuring more than 7 billion historical records. Search for your ancestors and use what you discover on Ancestry.com in your tree.

Family Tree Maker 2010 lets you easily:

• Organize your family story privately and conveniently on your personal computer.
• Create charts and reports in a variety of formats to share with friends and family.
• Discover new information anywhere on the web and add it to your tree instantly.
• Integrate with the 7 billion names in historical records on Ancestry.com. Even receive hints linking you to matching records.
• Incorporate photos, documents and audio, video and other files into your tree.
• View timelines and interactive maps.

Attach photos and rich media files that bring your family history to life in Media View.

Use dynamic maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived in Places View.

Generate timelines that show your ancestors' lives in historical context.

Access 10 invaluable family history reference books with the Standard Ancestry.com Reference Library DVD.

What's new in Family Tree maker 2010?

• New tools and charts that help you tell a richer story
• Better ways to organize photos and other media
• Create slideshows from the images in your tree
• Family books made from your tree
• Standard source templates that help you reference the right information
• A view of your relation to everyone in your tree
• Extended family birthday calendars
• Images scanned directly into your tree
• Family migration paths over time
• Easy family tree download from Ancestry.com

And don't forget the features you've come to rely on:

• Dynamic user interface that lets you quickly switch between important features
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File
• Powerful sourcing tools that let you document AND rate each of your citations
• Interactive maps and lists that give you a bird's-eye view of where members of your family come from
• Place authority database of more than 3 million names that helps you standardize your place entries
• Photo AND file management features so you can easily incorporate all types of media files into your charts and reports
• Timelines that highlight personal, family and world events
• Easy-to-use tools for merging duplicate individuals, calculating dates, creating to-do lists and more

How can you make the most of Ancestry.com?

• Family Tree Maker 2010 comes with a subscription to Ancestry.com, the world's largest online collection of family history resources.
• Your software works seamlessly with Ancestry.com so you can easily search for your ancestors and add the information you discover to your tree.
• You could find missing facts about your family in census records, draft cards, passenger lists, image collections and other historical resources.

Use Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker together. Get the most from both.

• Search the extensive record collections at Ancestry.com without ever leaving your family tree. Quickly merge new records you find into your tree.
• Take advantage of Ancestry Hints. Family Tree Maker automatically suggests records that may match people in your tree.
• Share heirloom-quality books and attractive posters that you create with the self-publishing tool at Ancestry.com.

Your Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe software includes:
Interactive Training Tutorial for Family Tree Maker 2010 (included on Family Tree Maker disk)

• Get step-by-step instructions and tips that will help you easily build and grow your family tree.

The Getting Started Guide to Family Tree Maker

• Follow simple directions to begin a project and master the program's basic features

The Family Tree Maker Little Book of Answers

• Read short sections that will tell you how Family Tree Maker can work best for you.

Discounts on Ancestry.com Products

• Save 20% on a subscription to Ancestry Magazine and 20% on DNA testing.

The Standard Ancestry.com Reference Library--Access to 10 invaluable family history reference books, compiled and indexed on one DVD.

• The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy
• The Red Book: American State, Country, and Town Sources
• The Ancestry Family Historian's Address Book
• Ancestry's Concise Genealogy Dictionary
• They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins
• Finding Answers in the U.S. Census
• U.S. Military Records
• Military Records at Ancestry.com
• Library of Congress: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research
• The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches (Out of Print)

Product Description

Ancestry.com Family Tree Maker 2010, the #1 selling family history software, can help you easily discover, organize and preserve your family history on your personal computer and share it in many creative ways. Once you’ve started your tree, you can add photos, video, audio and more. You can also create and print a variety of interactive maps, timelines, charts and reports. Family Tree Maker 2010 includes a three-month subscription to Ancestry.com the world’s largest online collection of family history resources, featuring over 7 billion historical records. Search for your ancestors and use what you discover in your tree.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, December 4, 2009

By 

Johnnyo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Have been using FTM for 15 years and the last 2 years have been very disappointing. I have issues with the Calendar.

Some of these issues are:

Can't change fonts.

Does not print all names even though they are entered correctly. (Previous versions printed 2 pages of the same month when names or anniversaries overflowed the date.) 2009 and 2010 versions print one page only and drops any names and anniversaries that don't fit. Try and figure that out when you have over 3000 names.

When you go to save the calendar it won't save it properly. I only wanted to have certain names and anniversaries on my calendar and I saved each month separately. When I went back into the calendar it reverted to the default which is to include every name and anniversary (living people only). I have had to go to "legal" size paper to make the names fit and I am not sure they all are there even doing that.

When you try and exclude someone from the calendar it is very time consuming and some of the functions do not work at all.

Some anniversaries show up even though one spouse is deceased and the proper box is checked on the options.

Occasionally a maiden name will print rather than a married name even though the proper box is checked on the options.

I had most of these issue with the 2009 version and I was unable to get them resolved through emails with customer service. I wrongly assumed that the 2010 version would correct at least some of these flaws.

I told the customer service person that I though they had a disgruntled programmer.

I am now looking for any other software that will let me download my information without having to re-enter the over 3000 names and other information I have.

43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does NOT work with Windows 7, 64 bit, January 21, 2010

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C. O'driscoll (Colton, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I keep getting conflicting information about this issue. The fact is, at least in MY case, FTM 2010 does NOT work with Windows 7. I purchased the product, after researching that it was SUPPOSED to work with 7, but lo, two months later (surprise!), when I upgraded to 7, FTM no longer works, neither in it's "native" form, or even when I ask windows to run in "compatability" mode. Nothing I seem to be able to do to make it work.

What I am wondering, is why you would introduce a product like this, just weeks from the introduction of the next, "trouble free" version of Windows, and claim that it WOULD work. From what I am reading on your site and others, I am not alone in this problem. If there is a patch, why can it not work without opening FTM 2010, WHICH WILL NOT OPEN IN WINDOWS 7?????

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware, March 18, 2010

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David L. Schoon "Apolloman" (Norwich, Ct United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2010 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I have been using FTM in various versions for almost 20 years, since the old DOS based in the distant past. Recently my old XP box died and I got a new HP with win 7. I tried to load the FTM version 16, but it wouldn't work, so I put in the new FTM 2010 version and loaded two of my family files. First warning: you can't go back. It is not backwardly mobile, so you have to stay with 2010. Second big warning: it progressively crashes on win 7. Called "support" people x3. First call: compress the file. Didn't work. Then, re-install after clean backup. I never in 20 years had to do this or install from safe mode, so why now on a brand new machine? Just try it, and hung up. Checked the box, no driver conflicts. Second call, insisted on clean backup. Tried it, didn't work. Third call. File is corrupt. Export the file as a GEDCOM, then re-install and put back the media files. Small problem: the file has 11,513 individuals and about 20,000 media files. Shouldn't take more than 3-6 months to put every thing back. Big whoop.

So I simulated the program to think it was running on XP sp3, and it runs. OMG. File isn't corrupt after all. Just doesn't run very well on the OS it's advertised for. My best guess: FTM knows that it's program isn't ready for prime time, and has told it's support people not to acknowledge it and send them on endless wild goose chases. So the buyers get to flounder around, while FTM hopes they give up and go away. And pockets the $.

Very bad.