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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 Deluxe 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.
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 into a convenient place, and you'll be on your way to building your legacy. The improved "edit individual" function 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 allows you to enter up to one megabyte of text to assure that your get the results you want.
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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 into a convenient place, and you'll be on your way to building your legacy. The improved "edit individual" function 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 allows you to 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, and the Ancestry.com search engine -- the largest online collection of family history information available -- Family Tree Maker 2005 will now take over. Just plug your information into the search fields, and in no time at all you'll have sorted through over 1.3 billion names to find the right matches. Family Tree Maker 2005 will then compare the results with the data that you have side-by-side. With the "web merge" feature, you can import the information directly into your file -- instantly.
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 your family and friends. Family Tree Maker 2006 Deluxe will also help you publish your family Web page or email your trees around the world, and you can even create and print professional quality family albums. A beautifully printed and well-researched family tree will make the perfect gift for all of your family members no matter the occasion.
New Features for 2006
Family Tree Maker 2006 Deluxe 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 the software can help to greatly improve your research.
In addition, along with Family Tree Maker 2006 Deluxe, you now 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), and a copy of Standard Ancestry Reference Library Software (a $50 value).
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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, Immigration Records and much more!
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161 of 162 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best Genealogy Software Available...except,
By rrs "chicopee" (Colorado) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2006 Deluxe [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
I've used Family Tree Maker for over 7 years - I've been through about 4 upgrades and just ordered 2006. It's reliable and very easy to use; however, I hate the way that it's incorporated into the web. I give FTM 5-stars for use "off line use" only. I do like the way that FTM interacts with my ancestry.com primary resource information - but, I would hesitate to recommend using this function for non-expert users of FTM. Make sure you do backups of data on a regular basis to be able to revert to an earlier restoration if your data becomes inaccurate/unstable.
I like the way that FTM handles GEDCOM imports & exports and the fact that many of my fellow serious genealogy researchers use FTM. Beware of using FTM published disks and any online information. Data is only as good as the person that originated the data. One cavaet - don't EVER upload information from your FTM files onto any FTM related site. They will use the information to publish their "world tree" cd's. I do like having the scrapbook, notes, address feature on FTM. I can keep jpgs of my ancestors in the file with their individual records. FTM is a workhorse genealogy program. I have over 5000 names in my database and FTM accesses my data file with no hesitation. Cons: Newer FTM files can never be used on an outdated version of FTM (which continuously is upgraded). There's a viewer available for any FTM files, but it severely restricts what you can do with the information. E.g., if a relative sends you a FTM file produced by a newer version of FTM (than you have on your computer) you won't be able to import the info into your data file. You'll end up inputting all the information by hand and will need to use the free viewer. These days, I do not publish my family tree to the Internet and rely on genealogy forums to connect with individuals with similar research interests. Always privatize information before sharing it. It can easily be used by identity thieves. The rule of thumb is don't ever send out any information that's less than 70 years old. That's why the 1930 census was not released until after 2000.
72 of 76 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Family tree maker 2006 deluxe,
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This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2006 Deluxe [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
This is a great improvement over previous editions; much easier to use and amend. The only reason for a 4 instead of a 5 is that they don't appear to honor special advertised offers of free 1 year memberships in other genealogy data bases when program not purchased directly from Encore. Very frustrating when expecting access and being told to join each one.
48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Misleading, Bad Service, but Good Software,
By Jan (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Family Tree Maker 2006 Deluxe [Old Version] (CD-ROM)
I have been very happy with the program itself, but the internet and customer service components have been a great dissapointment. The product of 1 free year is very misleading. Any advanced searching you need to do cannot be accessed (such as image viewing) after one month and the yearly subscription is around $200.
A note to new geneologists, the One World Family Tree is nearly useless. It is a good place to get leads, but I have found so much incorrect information, and it is prepetuated by others who just download the information unchecked into their own online trees, that it has acutally taken me longer to research when I have used it. If you do use it, make sure you get a second, first hand source (if you can still view the images that is). Lastly, I have had noting but problems with customer service. On the three ocassions I have contacted them, it took them much longer than the said 24 hours to reply. Everytime they told me I had to contact someone else and had me going in circles. The free FTM Users Guide was one of the reasons I contacted them, as it took nearly 4 months to arrive--I don't really need it at this point as I have struggled through on my own trial and error. The program is great if you have information you want to organize, just don't rely on the promised services or the internet component to get you much futher than a starting point.
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