Amazon.com Review
Flexibility is the name of the game with Family Tree Super Tools, an add-on package compatible with the most popular genealogy software on the market. With advanced sorting, display, and research functions, this package allows you to sort your family's historical data, organize it into attractive charts, and even create slide shows to celebrate your heritage.
As its name indicates, this program is intended as a tool rather than as a standalone. Family Tree Super Tools imports family trees already created using packages like The Master Genealogist and Family Origins, allowing users to analyze their data and create new displays. As a result, this program focuses less on the often-backbreaking work of researching a family history and more on data cleanup and snazzy output. The package has dozens of options for presenting and analyzing the gathered data: filters, searches, chart customization options, and much more. Charts can be saved directly to JPG format for easy insertion into Web pages. Comments, photos, and important historical events can be incorporated into the output, providing a larger perspective on a family story. The information can be streamlined just as easily, reduced to its essentials and presented in a compact fashion.
What's more, the program installs smoothly, is easy to use, and makes good on its promise of wide compatibility, integrating family databases from various sources with nary a complaint. For advanced users of genealogy software who want to tinker with the look and structure of an established family database, Family Tree Super Tools is a distinctly first-rate choice. --Alyx Dellamonica
Amazon.com Product Description
Family Tree SuperTools delivers a comprehensive suite of add-on tools for users of family history products. Versatile and easy to use, this intuitive tool kit is compatible with Family Tree Maker, Generations, Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, and other ancestral research programs. Supplemental research tools also let you launch Web searches directly from the program as well as create multimedia slide shows that can be e-mailed. An integrated version of Visual Chartform is added, making genealogical charting easier than ever.
With Family Tree SuperTools, you can create integrated timelines, so you can view family and events in a historical context. You can also color-code names to indicate family moves or to match family members. Conduct multiple searches with a single click and without additional data entry. A range of viewing options lets you compare your data with data from other sources. You can also edit charts onscreen and add text, images, colors, and backgrounds. When your research is done, simply submit your wall charts online to a printing service, eliminating messy cutting and pasting.