Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Delving Deeper into Family Tree Maker


Taking a closer look at the above screen will help one to better navigate within the program. Notice that the workspace this screen is on is the People Work Space. Here one can add all one's family members.

 The Family View section looks like this after beginning to enter the children of this couple.

This family had 16 children so it will take some time to enter them all in. For each person added, one needs to provide proof which is where the collected documents come to play. To the right of the above screen is the information on the highlighted individual, clicking the book brings up the following screen:


Clicking "Add New Media" allows one to add documents, pictures, newspaper clippings, etc. that is located on your own computer.

 Notice that you can also scan a record to add to your media collection.

 Another section worth mentioning that will be of great help as one wants to share their family history with other family members. The section is under the work space Publish, here one can choose from a large selection of reports and charts as well as customized charts.


Web Search allows one to search Ancesty.com, Rootsweb.com, and Genealogy.com for additional records and information.


Family Tree Maker has many other features that are covered in the following resources, one should keep an open mind and check out each software to find the one you are most comfortable in using.
There are videos and tutorials available for FTM in a variety of places:
  • http://www.familytreemaker.com/Learn/Tutorials
  • http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2011/01/10/family-tree-maker-tutorials/
  • http://ftmuser.blogspot.com/p/training-resources.html
Next week's blog will take a look at Legacy Family Tree.

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