Family Tree Maker and Alternatives Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland Norman Henke - March 6, 2016

Topics for Today What ‘s going on at Ancestry The Future of Family Tree Maker Legacy Family Tree RootsMagic Suggestions for the Mac Topics for Today

What is going on at Ancestry Last year Ancestry announced they were going to stop selling Family Tree Maker on Dec 31,2015. And they were going to end support on Dec 31, 2016 Ancestry is working on a new software interface that will allow other genealogy programs to access Ancestry.com They are completely focused on the data What’s going on at Ancestry

The Future of Family Tree Maker The rights to Family Tree Maker were recently sold to Software MacKiev. They are the makers of FTM for the Mac and Print Shop New FTM has been announced and will be available as a free upgrade to FTM 2014 users. There will be a charge to upgrade to FTM 2017. Interview with the President of Software MacKiev is at www.tamurajones.net/NewFamilyTreeMakerFuture.xhtml The Future of Family Tree Maker

FTM Plan – Current Tree

FTM Family View

FTM Person View

FTM Sources

FTM Charts

Legacy Family Tree Legacy Family Tree is written by Geoff Rasmussen, President of Millennia Software Current version is 8.0.544 Free version at www.legacyfamilytree.com/ Deluxe version with PDF manual costs $35. Legacy is famous for their Legacy Webinars at FamilyTreeWebinars.com Legacy shares many features with FTM and RootsMagic Legacy Family Tree

Legacy Home Screen

Legacy Family Screen

Legacy Pedigree Screen

Legacy Index Screen

RootsMagic Full version is $30 RootsMagic is written by Bruce Busby, owner of RootsMagic, Inc Recently re-written using SQL Current version is 7.0.11 Free version available at www.rootsmagic.com/RootsMagic/ Full version is $30 Discount for FTM users available at www.FTMUpgrade.com Webinars at www.rootsmagic.com/Webinars/ Magic Guides at www.rootsmagic.com/guides/ RootsMagic

Pedigree View shows you up to 6 generations on one screen

Family View shows you parents, grandparents, and children

Descendants View shows you up to 7 generations of descendants

People View lists every person in your file

WebSearch automatically searches popular internet databases for your family

Editable Timeline View puts a person's life in context

The Edit Screen puts all a person's information at your fingertips

Explorer lets you search for people by virtually any criteria

Web Explorer lets you search for people by virtually any criteria

Documenting your work is as easy as filling in the blanks

Choose from over 100 charts, lists, and reports

Create and publish your own books with chapters, indexes, and table of contents

Create and customize wall charts

Publish your family history online with the click of a mouse

Put your data, pictures, and RootsMagic itself on a Shareable CD

View and explore your places, people, and families on a world map

Easily find, compare, and merge duplicate records

Take your program and data with you

Suggestions for the Mac Family Tree Maker is available for the Mac. RootsMagic runs on the Mac with an included emulator. A native version is in the works. Reunion is widely considered to be the best Genealogy program for the Mac.

In Conclusion Family Tree Maker 2014 will work till Dec 31,2016 New Family Tree Maker is available now as a free upgrade from FTM 2014 FTM 2017 will not be a free upgrade RootsMagic will be fully Ancestry compatible soon. It will then be easy to convert to RM RootsMagic will be fully compatible to the New Ancestry interface before the end of 2016 Facebook pages for all these companies Google search “best genealogy software” or “best free genealogy software”