Videos To Help You Get the Most Out of Family Tree Maker

The Secret to Standardized Source Citation Ratings in Family Tree Maker 2012 and Mac 2

Using standardized source citation ratings in Family Tree Maker can help you make solid conclusions about facts. You’ve probably heard of original versus derivative sources, primary versus secondary information, and direct versus indirect evidence. That’s what FTM calls standardized source citation ratings. They also add a rating for clarity of the information–clear versus marginal. And [...]

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Holiday Sale 25% off Family Tree Maker 2012

Family Tree Maker 2012 is on sale starting today. A new copy is on sale for %25 off. An upgrade is discounted 30%. Click here to take advantage of the sale price on Family Tree Maker 2012. If you want more information first, see the GenealogyTools.com Family Tree Maker 2012 Buyer’s Guide. I don’t know [...]

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Family Tree Maker 2012 Overview Video

The accompanying video will show you the major elements of Family Tree Maker 2012. At its most basic, Family Tree Maker consists of the following workspaces. Plan People Places Media Sources Publish Web Search The workspaces group related features. They are made up of tabbed views and panels that you use to plan, research, analyze, [...]

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Index of Individuals Report in Family Tree Maker 2012

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It’s hard to believe that a report of all individuals in your tree wasn’t already in Family Tree Maker! Ancestry has corrected this oversight in FTM 2012. Now you can print a report listing the persons in your tree. It can be all of them, but doesn’t have to be. You can make a report [...]

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Family Tree Maker 2012 Discount Coupon Code

Update: Sadly, this coupon code no longer works. You can still get 40% or 20% off by clicking on this link. I just found a 20% off coupon code. I tried applying it to the full and upgrade versions of Family Tree Maker 2012 and it worked! The full and upgrade versions are already on [...]

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Family Tree Maker 2012 Ship Date

Wondering about Family Tree Maker 2012 ship date? There hasn’t been a definitive statement from Ancestry yet. We’ll have to go on the timing announced with the pre-sale. In August, Ancestry announced that the pre-sale would begin early in September and the Family Tree Maker ship date would be the end of the month. They [...]

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Add an Existing Person as a Spouse in Family Tree Maker

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Adding a spouse in genealogy software Family Tree Maker is intuitive when it’s a person you haven’t yet added to your tree. What’s not intuitive is how to connect two people who are already in your tree. Take heart though; it’s easy once you know the trick. The term for linking people in Family Tree [...]

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How to Chart a Direct Line of Descent in Family Tree Maker 2012

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It’s sometimes helpful to have a chart showing an ancestor and only those descendants in a direct line of descent to another person. There is a descendant chart in genealogy software Family Tree Maker, but before FTM 2012 it included all of the descendants of the selected ancestor. Family Tree Maker 2012 introduced an option [...]

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Family Tree Maker 2012 Blended Family View

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One of the new features in Family Tree Maker 2012 will help you see the relationship of children to parents at a glance. It’s called blended family view. Blended family view is activated by clickinh a new button above the children list on the person view in FTM 2012. When on, the list of children [...]

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Pre-sale of Family Tree Maker 2012

The pre-sale has begun. The Family Tree Maker 2012 release date is set. Ancestry is temporarily offering 40% off an upgrade or 20% off a full copy. That makes the upgrade price $23.99 and the full version $31.99. The sale ends September 28th. Click here to learn more and buy Family Tree Maker 2012. Be [...]

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