Build your family tree. Preserve your family
legacy.
Millions of people have used Family Tree Maker, the #1 selling genealogy
software, to discover and share their family stories. Now, with an intuitive
new interface and dozens of new features - making it easier than ever to
explore your roots.
Family history is a fun, rewarding hobby that connects you with your past
and brings you closer to your present family. Just getting
started? Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials will make it easy for you to explore
and preserve your family heritage. Already and expert? You will
appreciate the program's robust features, including flexible data-management
options and wide variety of output choices.
Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials lets you easily:
Explore your heritage
Preserve family stories, photos and more
Create beautiful charts to display and share
Essentials Edition total retail value: $140
Family Tree Maker integrates seamlessly with Ancestry.com, allowing you to
easily access the world's largest online collection of family history
records. Ancestry.com is home to many different types of records,
including census, military, immigration, land and probate records, just to
name a few.
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.
The Essentials Edition total retail value is $140!
Training 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 the handy guide to begin your first Family Tree
Maker project and master the program’s basic features.
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.
Ancestry.com
1-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)
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.com
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
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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 products require a DVD-ROM Drive
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 products require a DVD-ROM Drive
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