Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting on your family tree, Family Tree Maker can help you create a family tree faster, easier, and better than ever before. The end result is a family history that you and your family will treasure for years to come.

Family Tree Maker 2008 lets you easily:

* Build a family tree starting with names, dates, and events
* Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files
* Quickly merge new facts and records from the Web into your tree
* Use interactive maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived
* Design and print charts to display at home and share with family

This completely redesigned program has dozens of new features, including:

* A new interface that combines elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet, making it much easier to enter, view, and edit your data
* Vastly improved integration with Ancestry.com
* A Web clipper that lets you merge data from anywhere on the Web into your tree
* Standardized criteria for rating your sources
* Features that make it easy to manage photos and other media files and incorporate them into charts and reports
* A place authority with more than 3 million place names that helps you correctly enter locations
* Dynamic lists that show you all the people and events associated with a particular place
* Timelines that highlight personal, family, and world events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives
* A robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list
* The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree

By using Family Tree Maker 2008 together with Ancestry.com, you can:

* Quickly compare information you find on Ancestry with the data in your tree and use a merge wizard to selectively import new facts and records
* Take advantage of Ancestry Hints--a contextual search feature that automatically suggests records pertaining to people in your tree
* Back up your Family Tree Maker data by automatically creating a member tree on Ancestry (you can choose to share your tree with others or keep it private)
* Create heirloom-quality books using the new Ancestry Press self-publishing tool