Family Tree Maker 2009 is designed to give family history a visualization allowing you to draw family trees and charts, reports, annotate pictures and narrate your books.
Using the capabilities of a personal computer you are now able to create family trees with no effort importing pictures, searching for family-related information on the Web and publishing your books online.
Family Tree Maker 2009 creates charts using the bow tie, fan or hourglass schemes or you can design your own chart template. You can add maps to your stories, applying migration paths of persons and put their pictures on these maps. Enrich your ancestors' information by browsing the Web directly from Family Tree Maker 2009 ignoring the results that are not related to the person described.
Family Tree Maker 2009 supports import from Legacy Family Tree, Personal Ancestry File and The Master Genealogist.
Add citations, annotations and narrative text to your stories as well as import pictures, photos and attach other content types to the charts such as PDF documents or video files.
Apply world events and historical dates to the family stories.
Family Tree Maker 2009 intelligently recognizes all individuals put into your stories so that you can avoid duplicates and merge duplicate entries of any person. A date-calculator is included for your convenience.
Family Tree Maker 2009 synchronizes with ancestry.com to upload your books and this version of software comes with free one-month subscription to the service.
Interactive training and tutorial files are included.