Build your family tree.  Preserve your family legacy.

Software Information

Family Tree Maker 2008 lets you easily:

• Build a family tree starting with names, dates and events
• Attach photos, documents and audio and video files
• Quickly merge new facts and records from the web into your tree
• Use interactive maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family

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


Software Best Highlights

By using Family Tree Maker 2008 together with Ancestry, you can:

• Quickly compare information you find on Ancestry with the data in your tree and use a merge wizard to selectively import new facts and records
• Take advantage of Ancestry Hints - a contextual search feature that automatically suggests records pertaining to people in your tree
• Back up your Family Tree Maker data by automatically creating a member tree on Ancestry (you can choose to share your tree with others or keep it private)
• Create heirloom-quality books using the new Ancestry Press self-publishing tool

Program Includes

The Deluxe Edition total retail value is $280!

• Program Includes 3 months premium access to ancestry
  Access to the Web's largest collection of family history records. Subscription terms begins upon installation of the Family Tree Maker software.

• Training software Video (DVD)
  Watch as family history expert Megan Smolenyak presents tips and guidelines for 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 (PDF)
  For detailed instructions, browse or search the in-depth user manual included on the software installation CD.
  
• The Standard Ancestry Reference Library (DVD)
  Access 10 leading family history books, compiled and indexed on one DVD.
  

New Features

This completely redesigned program has dozens of new features, including:

• A new interface that combines elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet, making it much easier to enter, view and edit your data
• Vastly improved integration with Ancestry
• A web clipper that lets you merge data from anywhere on the web into your tree
• Standardized criteria for rating your sources
• Features that make it easy to manage photos and other media files and incorporate them into charts and reports
• A place authority with more than 3 million place names that helps you correctly enter locations
• Dynamic lists that show you all the people and events associated with a particular place
• Timelines that highlight personal, family and world events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives
• A robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist and Legacy Family Tree

Add Bonus

As an additional bonus, you also get Our History in Images (2 DVDs).  Add visual excitement and historical context to your family tree with this collection of historical maps, war and conflict photos and vintage postcards from all 50 states.

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 30,000 vintage postcards from all 50 states.




Microsoft windows Computer Requirements

• Microsoft windows XP SP2, Vista
• 500 MHz Intel Pentium II (or equivalent) processor
• 460 MB for installation / 256 MB of RAM
• 2X CD-ROM Drive (required for installation)
• 800 x 600 resolution monitor
• All online features require Internet access
• Some supplemental software products require a DVD-ROM Drive

Recommended Requirments

• Microsoft windows XP SP2, Vista
• 1 GHz Intel Pentium III (or equivalent)
• 460 MB for installation / 512 MB of RAM
• 32X CD/CD-R
• 1024x768 resolution monitor
• All online features require Internet access
• Some supplemental software products require a DVD-ROM Drive