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Platinum Edition is the full Family Tree Maker 2012 Platinum Australian/New Zealand Edition in a retail box, Australian and UK data disks, getting started guide, tutorial DVD, Companion Guide book (PDF file) and a six-month Ancestry Australia subscription. Details of the included Ancestry.com products:

Deluxe Edition is the full Family Tree Maker 2012 Deluxe Australian/New Zealand Edition in a retail box, getting started guide, tutorial DVD, Companion Guide book (PDF file) and Ancestry Australia subscription. Details of the included Ancestry.com products:

Upgrade Edition is an upgrade to Family Tree Maker 2012 Deluxe Australian/New Zealand Edition for owners of a previous version of Family Tree Maker. To be eligible for this upgrade proof of purchase of a previous version is required - either fax or email a copy of the FTM receipt to VicGUM^® or contact them for other proof of purchase options before making your FTM 2012 upgrade purchase. The upgrade edition includes the following Ancestry.com products:

	Family Tree Maker (FTM) is a popular program that has an intuitive and easy to use interface. However, for those new to computing and family history software the task of installing and setting up the software can seem a daunting task. This book will take new users through the basics to help them get up and running. It covers installation, registration of the program, activation of the Ancestry.com subscription that comes with the Family Tree Maker software and starting a new file or importing data. The book then covers the seven workspaces within the program in a simple manner so that new users can start using the program effectively. Many screen shots are included so readers can see exactly what is happening and how to use the various features of the program. Chapters include: Getting Started, The Plan Workspace, The People Workspace, The Places Workspace, The Media Workspace, The Sources Workspace, The Publishing Workspace, The Web Search Workspace, Final Thoughts, an Appendix of useful Help resources and an Index. Written by Family Tree Maker expert, John Donaldson, this book covers both FTM 2012 for the PC and FTM for MAC 2. As the title says, if you are new to Family Tree Maker this is the book for you.
	Beyond The Basics - A Guide for Advanced users of Family Tree Maker 2012 Book  written by Tana L Pedersen. This book is written with the advanced Family Tree Maker 2012 user in mind and is applicable to both the PC and Mac versions. It assumes that you are proficient with basic Family Tree Maker skills such as adding individuals and facts, creating sources, working with media items, and making charts and reports. It does not duplicate the topics already covered in the Companion Guide and is a useful resource to help you get the most out of Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker and allows you to go the topic you are interested in - you don't have to read it cover to cover. Beyond the Basics includes a section on the new TreeSync and chapters on Filling Out Your Tree, Defining Relationships, Working More Efficiently, Importing and Exporting, Showing Off Your Family, Analyzing Your Tree, Preserving your History, Making the Software Work for You, Using Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com and Cleaning Up Your Tree.

What's new in Family Tree Maker 2012

Family Tree Maker 2012 has added a number of new features including the much waited for TreeSyncTM which links the FTM desktop tree and online Ancestry Member Tree together. This makes this popular genealogy program even better. Enhancements include:

TreeSyncTM —Now you can work on your family tree anywhere with the new TreeSync feature. When you link your desktop and online trees together, you can update either tree and then synchronize those changes into the other tree — manually or automatically with your Internet connection. Syncing your Family Tree Maker tree and online Ancestry tree has many benefits:

• Access and update your tree anytime, anywhere. With an Internet connection, you can continue your research wherever you are. This means that you could transcribe information from a book while at the library or transcribe facts from an out-of-town interview with Aunt Sally right into your online Ancestry.com Member Tree using your laptop or smart phone or ipad . Next time you have an internet connection, it would sync with your Family Tree Maker database on your home computer. Or now you could take a photo at a cemetery and attach it to your online Ancestry Member tree, and with an internet connection, it will sync it to your Family Tree Maker database on your computer. And, conversely, while you are out researching, your know your online tree will always be up to date and the same as your tree on your home computer.
• Share your tree online. Family and friends can view your tree (and even work with you) without any software or an Ancestry subscription.
• Collaborate with the largest family history community in the world. If you share your tree publicly, other Ancestry members who are researching the same family lines can find you.
• If you already have a tree in FTM 2012 and a Member Tree online at Ancestry, there is no longer a need to do double entries .

Improved Smart StoriesTM —When Family Tree Maker creates a Smart Story for you, the story now includes facts about the individual and his or her spouse and children. Previously a generated Smart Story included information about the individual only.

New Combined Family View —The family group view has a new “blended families” option that displays all of a couple’s children in one location. An icon next the child’s name lets you see at a glance whether he or she is the child of the father, mother, or both parents.

Simplified Interface for Upgraders —When you install Family Tree Maker 2012, the software detects whether you are upgrading from a previous version of Family Tree Maker (version 16 or earlier). If you are, Family Tree Maker displays a simplified user interface that looks more like older versions of Family Tree Maker.

Customized Fact Sentences — When you create an Ahnentafel, descendant report, or Smart Story, Family Tree Maker generates descriptive sentences for each fact or event. Now you can change the wording to customize these sentences and the data included in the sentences.

Reports

• Improved Notes Report—The Notes Report lets you display person, research, relationship, or fact notes you’ve entered for individuals in your tree. The old Research Notes Report is changed to Notes Report with options to include other types of notes
• New Index of Individuals Report - The Index of Individuals Report lists every individual in your tree and their birth, marriage, and death dates.

Charts

• Generation Labels—Now you can display generation labels (such as parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents) in charts to highlight the relationship between the primary person in the chart and other family members.
• Additional Options in Descendant Chart—You can create a descendant chart that shows the relationship between two people whom you select. You can limit descendant chart to the direct line between two people.
• Adding Text to a Chart—In addition to adding your own images to a chart, you can now personalize your charts even more by adding your own text—creating a chart that is completely unique.

New and Updated Tutorials —You can learn to do more - like creating trees and using Ancestry.com features - with new and improved tutorials accessible in the software.

Gedcom —You can now include media links in the GEDCOM 5.5 export.

See the Family Tree Maker web site for more information on Family Tree Maker 2012 features.

What's new in Family Tree Maker 2011

Family Tree Maker 2011 has added over 100 new features compared to Family Tree Maker 2010 making this popular genealogy program even better. Enhancements include:

• Smart Stories™ - Just drag and drop facts from your tree to the new Smart Stories page. Each time you edit your tree, stories update automatically
• New and improved charts - Enhance your charts with new backgrounds, borders, and embellishments. Create four new designs, including a 360 degree fan chart
• Refined reports - Save and reuse report settings and use 5 new report styles
• Media management tools - Locate missing media items with the click of the mouse
• More Ancestry integration - Find out which Ancestry members are searching for your ancestors in the expanded Web Dashboard
• Better performance - Upload and download trees from the Internet with increased speed
• Numbering - Automatically number every person in your tree for quick reference
• Timelines - View more events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives. Even edit, delete or add your own historical events

Other highlights of this program include:

• A dynamic user interface that lets you quickly switch between important features
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree
• A Web Search that is integrated with Ancestry.com so you can easily add records and images from the millions of available historical records
• Attractive charts and reports in a variety of formats
• The ability to add photos and audio and video files to your tree
• Timelines and interactive maps
• Powerful sourcing tools that let you document—and rate—each citation

What's new in Family Tree Maker 2010

Family Tree Maker 2010 has added new features to this popular genealogy program, including:

• Enhanced integration with Ancestry.com - Import your Ancestry.com family tree, along with attached photos
• Improved organization - Enjoy new ways to organize photos and other media
• Slideshows - Create slideshows from photos in your tree
• Family books - Publish beautiful keepsakes and books to share with friends and family
• Standard source templates - Cite the right information every time
• A new person view - View relationships within the context of your entire family tree
• Scanner support - Add photos directly from your scanner
• Family migration paths - View timelines and interactive maps highlighting events and places in your ancestors' lives
• Better Performance - Experience faster load times and navigation

Other highlights of Family Tree Maker 2010 include:

• A dynamic user interface that lets you quickly switch between important features
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree
• A Web Search that is integrated with Ancestry.com so you can easily add records and images from the millions of available historical records
• Attractive charts and reports in a variety of formats
• The ability to add photos and audio and video files to your tree
• Timelines and interactive maps
• Powerful sourcing tools that let you document—and rate—each citation

What's new in Family Tree Maker 2009

Family Tree Maker 17^th Edition (2008) was completely redesigned with a new interface that combined elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet, making it much easier to enter, view and edit your data. Family Tree Maker 2009 builds on this base, adding many new features including:

• New Reports
• • Genealogy reports (Register and Ahnentafel, both full and simplified)
  • Data errors report
  • Enhancements to many reports
• New Charts
• • Hourglass
  • Vertical pedigree chart
  • Horizontal hourglass chart
  • Bow tie chart
  • 180–degree fan chart
  • Family tree chart
• New Functionality within Publishing
• • Book layouts for main charts
  • Saved settings in charts/reports
  • Saved templates in charts
  • Ability to show siblings within charts
  • Single page PDF export from charts
  • Enhancements to the RTF export
  • Ability to add boxes in charts to “Marked Box” category and modify box settings
  • Preparer information in chart footers
• Improved Data–Manipulation Tools
• • Change place name tool
  • Find–and–replace dialog
  • Edit person dialog, streamlining data entry from any workspace
  • Spouse order setting in the person menu
  • Ability to set the media order on a person
  • Find Individual Dialog
  • Find Duplicate Person Dialog
  • Fact Data Options Dialog that allows for:
  • • Ability to change fact types
    • Ability to move description to place or place to description
    • Ability to make information private
  • Symbols in text fields
• Improvements within Research tools
• • Ability to ignore hints
  • Option to delete existing facts in individual and web merge
  • Inclusion of married name, AKA and titles in index
  • Automatic simple backup at shutdown
• Import Improvements
• • OLE objects (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF) from previous FTM versions
  • Improved name parsing
  • Import previously ignored hints lists
• Place Improvements
• • Place map toolbar that allows free text place searches
  • Pinpoint places such as libraries, churches and courthouses
  • Track — and print — your ancestors’ migration paths on interactive maps with the new Places timeline
• Source Improvements
• • Ability to copy and paste source–citations

What's new in Family Tree Maker 17th Edition (2008)

The program has been completely redesigned with 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. Features include:

• A 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

See the Family Tree Maker Web Site for more details on Family Tree Maker 2012

System Requirements for Family Tree Maker 2012

Minimum system requirements:

• Operating system: Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) / Windows XP (SP2/SP3)
• Hard disk space: 500 MB for installation
• Memory: 1 GB of RAM
• Display: 1024 x 768 resolution for monitor
• CD-ROM (required for installation)
• All online features require Internet access
• Training video requires DVD-ROM drive

As with all Windows programs, a faster processor, more RAM, and more free disk space will enhance performance.

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