Family Tree Maker For Mac Review

Family tree maker ftm is certainly the most well known family tree software on mac and the latest version of ftm 2019 for mac is still one of the best.

Family tree maker for mac review.

So i tried importing it into another popular program legacy family tree. Discover your personal family history. They promised a free update to users of the current version ftm 2014 for windows or mac3 for mac users. Family tree maker ftm 2019 was released on 29 sep 2019 as a 30 th anniversary edition.

Create visually impressive charts evaluations re. Shortly after their original announcement ancestry stated that software mackiev the producers of the mac version of ftm would take over the program and continue to update and sell it for mac and windows. I say don t waste your time with my heritage family tree builder. Although since synium released their first version of mac family tree most of the best genealogy programmes have become mac compatible all mac users will tell you that software fine tuned specifically for the mac is almost always superior.

Family tree maker comes as close to pulling it off as any program i rsquo ve reviewed receiving no grades below an a ndash. Explore your family tree and your family history in a way that would have amazed generations of chroniclers before you. I ve been using ftm for over 20 of those years ever since brøderbund software released version 4 0 on cd rom for the first time. Genealogy gets a facelift with macfamilytree 9.

In our tests it received an a for data entry efficiency scrapbooking tools and ease of use. Answers can be found in a built in help file an online help center and a 311 page companion book that comes both as a pdf and a paperback. I got a whole long list of uid errors and a bunch of marriages of unknown people. Family tree maker review the best family tree builders keep a lot of balls in the air.

Ease of use data management powerful research tools high quality charting and scrapbooking. Switching from another program is a snap with lickety split import of gedcom and family tree maker 16 for windows files. Family tree maker is a great tool for comprehensive genealogy research. I tried my heritage family tree builder and made a gedcom file that i imported into paf.

By jeph preece 20 april 2018. Modern interactive convenient and fast. Family tree maker is made by mackiev the makers of the popular mavis beacon typing courses and features just about everything you need in family tree software on mac. When you do need help family tree maker for mac shines.

Very few features require you open new windows eliminating the possibility of getting lost in a sea of data.