Family Tree Maker

As my father wants to track all our family member, he asked me to find a good software to do it. Lately, he did the tracking things manually, entered the data manually (using MS. excel), and draw the tree manually (using MS. Visio). And it is hard things to do, because I also involved in “that project”, he he. So I found Family Tree Maker from Anchestry.

Splash Screen

This is one nice and cool application. It has a powerful information management, easy-to-use research tools, and creative output options.

If you guys want to use it, here some of its features:

Better Planning

• Improved file merge.
• Global task management.
• Ability to import PAF, Legacy, The Master Genealogist and various other file formats.

Sneak Peak

People Management

• Family view that combines the family tree and family group.
• Person view that displays facts, sources, notes, and tasks in one view.
• Timeline view that lists personal, family, and historic events.
• Relationship view that lists family relationships.
• Index groupings that allow searching by family name, given name, birth date, marriage date, and death date.
• History list that displays the changes made to records in the tree.

Places

• A database of 3 million complete place names connected to FastFields name completion.
• A map to find each location in the tree.
• A view to see all of the people associated with a location.

Media

• View all of the images and media in your tree from one location.
• Link one media file to multiple people and view all of the people a media file is linked to.

Sources

• View all of the sources in your tree from one location.
• Rate sources using standardized rating criteria.
• Full reference notes.
• Flexible citation/source/repository model.

Publish

• New charts and reports.
• Improved chart and report customization.
• Output charts and reports to PDF, CSV, RTF, HTML, JPG, PNG and other formats.

Web Search

• Search Ancestry.com, Rootsweb.com, and Genealogy.com and merge the results into your tree.
• Search anywhere on the Internet from within Family Tree Maker and merge the results into your tree.
• Add your own bookmarks to web sites.
• Capture text, images, and entire web pages and merge them into the tree.

If you have BIG family, this application is really help us to track all our family members, so we can keep our silaturahmi.

cheers..