Organized Genealogy with a Family Tree Maker Program

When choosing what genealogy maker application you want to use to build your history, it is important to know what features the program has so it will meet your needs. Knowing what features are important may not be apparent if you are new to genealogy. You can compare online programs to see which one is best for you, view a comparison chart.

Notes Can Highlight your Ancestors Life

Make your genealogy more interesting by adding personal information about each of your relatives in your tree. What you find from your research can really bring your family history to life.

Interviewing your relatives is a great way to get historical data about your ancestors. If interviews are not possible, try finding obituaries. They are great source to use for verifying a person’s death and burial place as well finding personal information for the person and their family.

Tasks Keep you Focused with your Research

When you start your research, you will want to look for sources that will fill in the blanks for your ancestors. Keeping track of what you want to find can sometimes be overwhelming. Writing down what you want to research, as well as what you have completed is a lot more manageable if you keep it in a centralized place.

We have provided users with a built in task log that users can assign priority and a due date. You can even print out a report, which can be helpful when doing research away from the home.

Create Custom Events

Genealogy has a set of standard events that are used to record dates, places, and description information. If you have any type of document for an event, you should add it as a means of proof.

But there are many events that happen to us over a life time that are not standard GEDCOM events. You might want to add other events such as: Military, Employment, etc.

Merging and Managing your Custom Events

If you have similar events that were created, such as Military and Military Information, with our family tree maker program you can easily merge the two for a person or for your whole tree.

Import and Export GEDCOM Files

GEDCOM files are a standardized format that gives genealogy programs the ability to export and import files from one family tree maker application into another. To understand more about compatibility issues, read this article about GEDCOM files.

Merge Duplicate People

With our merge tool you can view the information that you have for each person and decide which events, ancestors, descendants, sources, media, and notes you want to merge. You can even perform this function across multiple files.

With our Program users can Update Locations Easily!

With our family tree maker program “manage locations feature”, you can filter your locations by several factors and easily update your data, either by correcting spelling errors or adding counties or cities to make your information more complete.

Tracking Adopted Children in your Family History

Users can have multiple parents and set the child parent relationship with our heritage maker program.

Link and Seamlessly Update People across Multiple Trees

A unique feature only found with our program is the ability to attach a person across multiple files. By attaching a person, when you update the person in one file, they are updated in both. So if you add or change information, it is updated in both files.

This is not the same as just having the same person listed in two separate files. When they are just listed, they have to be updated manually.

The below icon shows this person is attached to multiple trees. When you roll over the icon, you will be able to see the file names.

Link Documents to Multiple People Easily

You can easily add sources and photos to multiple people, without having to retype all the details and upload the document for each person. This makes data entry easier and saves time.

After the memorabilia is added, we make it easy for you to know who else is attached to the same media.

Subscribe today and start building and tracing your family history today utilizing our online genealogy heritage maker program that has many features and tools.