| Discovering your family roots is fun and exciting | | | | they have on their sites that you wish to collect. |
| but before long you gather so much information | | | | Printing out professional looking family history |
| that you need to implement a good way to stay | | | | books or large family tree posters are also some |
| organized. If you trace family tree ancestors, | | | | of the features of FTM. With a little bit of time |
| you'll likely want to find and use one of the many | | | | and energy, you can make attractive keepsakes |
| easy to use computer software programs | | | | that will be of interest to you and many in your |
| designed to help you. Although I am going to | | | | family for years to come. |
| review Family Tree Maker (FTM) software in this | | | | One of the regular features of all good genealogy |
| article, Roots Magic is another excellent and easy | | | | software, is that it lets you to enter information |
| to use program that offers a free version. I | | | | one individual at a time. This program contains |
| would strongly recommend that you look into it | | | | what I believe to be, all the basic features needed |
| before making your genealogy software decision. | | | | in good genealogy software. After an individual is |
| It's one of the programs I use myself. | | | | added, you can then enter the details about each |
| When you want to trace your family tree and | | | | of the many details you discover about their |
| track ancestors, good software can be invaluable. | | | | history. Important dates and places where events |
| You'll want a program that will give you good | | | | happened can be added to their profile one at a |
| value for what you invest and one that will serve | | | | time - including birth, christening, marriage, divorce, |
| you well now and for the foreseeable future. One | | | | death and burial details. Also you can add any |
| of the most commonly used software programs | | | | other information about them you may want to |
| by genealogist hobbyists is FTM. It was developed | | | | save. |
| by the huge and popular genealogy website It is | | | | After entering information about where an |
| one of the best programs available, is very robust | | | | individual lived, the FTM software can display |
| and can be found at This software has a large | | | | where they lived on a map. Another valuable |
| number of features that are very helpful as you | | | | feature of this program is that it allows you to |
| build your family history legacy. You can organize | | | | publish your family tree into an online website so |
| and save your videos, photos and even audio | | | | that others can see it and tie into it from their |
| clips. You can also see your people and dates in | | | | genealogy records. For many genealogy |
| perspective with its timeline. The program has | | | | enthusiasts, sharing the family's history is one of |
| various charts and reports in addition to the | | | | the more rewarding aspects of the hobby. |
| central feature - the ancestral or pedigree charts. | | | | FTM is a very helpful and robust software |
| Another of it's very important features is its | | | | program but it is not cheap. Though not too |
| ability to easily exchange information with other | | | | expensive for most genealogists, many of the |
| sites and researchers. That is a "must have" | | | | cheaper ( or even free ) programs can do most |
| feature in any program you use. | | | | of the same things. There is one good free |
| Family Tree Maker was developed by and as a | | | | program called Family Tree Builder that you can |
| result, it is easy to exchange information with | | | | get from Likely the most popular of all the free |
| that site and their many resources and use them | | | | or inexpensive programs is Personal Ancestral File |
| together. Additionally, Rootsweb and many other | | | | which can be downloaded from in the download |
| websites available allow you to connect to them | | | | area here: PAF 5. |
| and download and save important information | | | | |