Building your family tree just got even easier!

Product Information

Millions of people have used Family Tree Maker, to discover and share their family stories.  Now, with an intuitive new interface and dozens of new features, the Family Tree Maker 2008 Platinum Edition makes it easier than every to explore your roots.

• Organize your family's precious history
• Search billions of historical records
• Create charts, timelines and memory books

Family history is a fun, rewarding hobby that connects you with the past – and brings you closer to your present family. Just getting started? Family Tree Maker will make it easy for you to explore and preserve your family heritage. Already an expert? You’ll appreciate the program’s robust features, including flexible data-management options and a wide variety of output choices.

Family Tree Maker integrates seamlessly with Ancestry, allowing you to easily access the world's largest online collection of family historical records. Ancestry is home to many different types of records, including census, military, immigration, land, and probate records, just to name a few.


Includes

The Platinum Edition includes:  (A $406 Retail Value)

Ancestry

• 6 month U.S. Deluxe subscription to the Web's largest collection of family history records. (Subscription term begins upon installation of your Family Tree Maker software)

Support Products

• Mega Smoleyak training video (DVD)
• Getting Started Guide
• The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2008 (PDF)

Bonus Items

• Deluxe Ancestry Reference Library: 15 leading reference/how-to-books on family history (DVD)
• Our History in Images:  more than 35,000 historical photos, maps and postcards (2 DVDs)
• Ancestry Magazine: 6 issues filled with family  history advice, ideas, solutions and stories
• Quick Tips for Genealogists: a book of innovative ideas from family history researchers

New Features

If you are familiar with a previous version of Family Tree Maker, you will notice that the program  has a fresh new look and feel.  They have made it easier than ever to enter, view and edit your data.

• A Web clipper that let’s you merge data from anywhere on the Web into your family tree.
• Timelines that highlight important personal, family and historical events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives trees submitted by members.
• Interactive maps and lists that show all the people in your family tree associated with a particular place.
• A place authority with more than 3 million names that helps you correctly enter localities.
• Features that make it easy to view photos and other media files, attach them to multiple people in your family tree and incorporate them into charts and reports.
• A robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list.
• Standardized criteria for rating your sources.
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including FamilySearch Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist and Legacy Family Tree.

Key Benefits

Family Tree Maker lets you easily:

• Create a family tree starting with names, dates and events
• Attach photos, documents and audio and video files
• Find information on the Web and merge it into your family tree
• Use dynamic maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived
• View timelines that show your ancestors' lives in historical context
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family

By using Family Tree Maker with Ancestry, you can:

• Search the Web's largest collection of family history records, including billions of names, for information about your ancestors.
• Get help from the Ancestry Community through message boards and other tools - and potentially find your ancestors in millions of photos and family trees submitted by members.
• Automatically create an online family tree back up your data and share it with family and friends (you can keep your tree private if you would prefer)
• Create heirloom-quality books through the Ancestry Press self-publishing tool

Product Features

Support Resources for Family Tree Maker 2008

Training Video
Watch as Megan Smolenyak, Chief Family Historian for Ancestry, presents tips and guidelines for finding your roots and building your family tree.

Getting Started Guide
Follow the directions in this handy guide to begin your first Family Tree Maker project and master the program's basic features.

The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2008
For detailed instructions on using the program's advanced features, consult the in-depth user manual, included on the software installation CD.

Family Tree Maker Website
Join a thriving community of novice and experienced family historians at the Family Tree Maker site.  The site offers expert advice, message boards, advanced product support and more.

Add Bonus

Special Bonus:  Deluxe Ancestry

Whether you are new to a family history or an advanced genealogist, you will find a multitude of useful tips to jumpstart your research in the Standard Ancestry Reference Library.  They have compiled 15 of the leading family history books on one DVD for convenient electronic access.  This collection is fully indexed and instantly searchable, giving you a comprehensive roadmap to the world of family history research.


Added Bonus:  Our History In Images

Historical Maps
Explore period maps of the areas where your ancestors lived.  This collection includes more than 1,500 maps, charts and diagrams.

War and Conflict
Browse images of the conflicts that shaped U.S. history.  This volume includes more than 1,500 photos, drawings and paintings.

U.S. Postcards
Add visual excitement and historical context to your family tree with more than 3,000 vintage postcards from all 50 states.

Windows Requirements

• Windows XP SP 2, Vista
• 500MHz Intel Pentium II (or equivalent) processor
• 460 MB for installation / 256 MB of RAM
• 2X CD-ROM (required for installation)
• 800 x 600 resolution monitor

Recommended Requirments

• Windows XP SP 2, Vista
• 1 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent) processor
• 460 MB for installation / 512 MB of RAM
• 32X CD/ CD-R
• 1024 x 768 resolution monitor
• All online requires require Internet access
• Some supplemental products require a DVD-ROM drive