Family Tree Maker For Apple



Ancestry.com Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 makes it easy to create and share your family tree. With a membership to Ancestry.com included, you'll have FREE access to 5 billion U.S. Family Tree Maker Software Over 5 Million people and 1000’s of teams already use Creately Create any family tree with minimal effort and time Draw even the most complex of family trees in the shortest time possible with advanced features tailor-made for ease-of-use and flexibility. Additions and changes performed by either method are automatically synced when quitting Family Tree Maker. As a Mac user for over 20 years, I judge software by its ease of use and how well it integrates with the Mac OS. My initial impression of Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 is good. For thirty years Family Tree Maker® has been the world's favorite genealogy software making it easier than ever to discover your family story, preserve your legacy and share your unique heritage.

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Update: FTM 2010 for Mac has been replaced by Family Tree Maker for Mac 2.

Ancestry.com has officially announced today that they are bringing Family Tree Maker 2010 to Mac OS X. Yes, Family Tree Maker is going to once again grace Apple’s Macintosh lineup, only this time the OS is Unix-based and Family Tree Maker is not being published by Broderbund. It’s been over a decade since a version of Family Tree Maker built specifically for the Mac has graced our hard drives. I would like to pretend shock and surprise, but I was tipped off to this prior to today. I will admit I was only slightly skeptical, due to Ancestry.com’s Tree-to-Go software for the iPhone/iPad. All that can be said for now is that it will be available later this year and it’ll be built on the functionality of Family Tree Maker 2010.

That’s not to say that Mac users weren’t using the Windows version of Family Tree Maker 2010 – VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, and VirtualBox all provided the means for us to run Microsoft Windows and whatever genealogy software for Windows on our Macs that we saw fit. Many of us chose to go with native Mac OS X genealogy software for very good reasons, although some just couldn’t quite make the transition and held on to their Windows genealogy software.

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It’s not too surprising when you think about it – Macs have been steadily increasing market share, and the iPhone and iPad have both taken off. With the Ancestry.com iPhone app (Ancestry.com Tree-to-Go Entry at MobileGenealogy.com), it would have been really odd to push out an iPhone/iPad app and ignore the Mac OS X market.

Just to take you a on a little trip down memory lane, this is the Family Tree Maker Deluxe Edition II for Macintosh Press Release from 1997, that was posted on MacGenealogy.org around four and a half years ago.

There’s got to be a couple of main areas that Family Tree Maker 2010 has covered, right from the start. Otherwise, there won’t be any reason for people to switch.
1) Straight-up 100% migration of the PC version of Family Tree Maker 2010 to the Mac version. This is not really an option – if you have somebody running FTM in Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion and you offer them a Mac version of FTM but don’t offer an easy way to migrate, they’ll have no reason to leave a Windows virtual machine for Mac OS X.
2) At least 90-95% of the functionality of the Windows version, or again, FTM users won’t switch. There are obviously things that will be different because of the OS differences.
3) Things that many Mac users take for granted such as iPhoto integration. Having been a veteran of many ports of software from Windows to Mac, some companies chose to ignore the benefits of Macs in order to keep porting streamlined. It would be very foolish to just slap a Mac-looking interface on it and push it out the door.

As for my personal opinion?
The more, the merrier. Competition is always good, especially for those of us end-users. I know plenty of people who got used to certain Windows applications that were held back from moving to Mac OS X. Some chose to use work-arounds, either going through a migration process, or holding on to their Windows genealogy software using VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Should FTM for Mac OS X offer an easy migration path, you’ll see plenty of FTM users making the switch. I think Ancestry.com has to do the things I outlined above for it to be considered a success. Even though this is technically the first release of FTM for Mac OS X, they have the resources to make a strong showing out of the gate. We might even see people migrating data from their non-FTM genealogy software to the Windows version of FTM and then down to the Mac OS X version. Strange things happen when you have a lot of data to migrate and very limited migration paths.

What about other Mac genealogy software developers?
The Mac genealogy software market is incredibly mature and very competitive at this point. It’s probably more mature and competitive than it was back in the 1990s when Family Tree Maker was still being produced by Broderbund for Apple Macintosh computers (during the Mac OS/”Classic” days). Is Family Tree Maker for Mac going to be the proverbial 800 pound gorilla? (Wikipedia) I actually don’t think so. When the move to Intel CPUs was made several years ago, with VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop, it allowed a lot of Windows users to migrate over to Macs, and even keep that Windows software they needed to keep. Over time many of those people eventually moved to Reunion, GEDitCOM II, MacFamilyTree, etc. This is certainly going to help people new to Macs, but I think that people who have 100% switched to Macs, including their genealogy software, are not going to be running to Family Tree Maker for Mac in droves. Several of the current genealogy software developers for Mac are on top of their game and know what their customers and fans want and have been working for years to stay up with the evolution of the Mac platform. If Family Tree Maker wants to get those people on the FTM bandwagon, they’ll have to do quite a bit from the start. Family Tree Maker certainly benefits from Ancestry.com integration. There is no doubt about that – many users of existing Mac genealogy software are also Ancestry.com subscribers.
Bottom line: If Ancestry.com wants to succeed in this, they have to roll out a very polished and very well-integrated and polished piece of Mac software. The Mac part of that is the most important part. They cannot roll out Family Tree Maker with a Mac GUI slapped on it, it’s got to look, feel, and act like a piece of native Mac OS X software. The days for throwing together a Mac port of a Windows product without making it Mac-oriented are long gone. They were going away even before the transition to Intel was complete.

Here’s the official press release for the Mac OS X version in its entirety:

Provo, Utah, April 28, Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family resource, today revealed a Mac® version of Family Tree Maker® at the 2010 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new version of the world’s No. 1 selling family history software is planned for release later this year.

“Every innovation or update we make is driven by what customers tell us they need to further their family history research,” said Eric Shoup, Senior Vice President of Product. “The Mac version of Family Tree Maker was the obvious next step forward to add to our family of Ancestry.com products and is a much anticipated product for our Mac-based customers.”

Family Tree Maker has helped users organize their family history research for more than 20 years. The software provides users the tools they need to build a family tree, record memories and organize photos, stories, videos and audio clips in a way that will help easily capture and share the story of their ancestors.

Family Tree Maker accesses the robust collection of family history records and powerful search features from Ancestry.com – without leaving the software. When connected to the Internet, Family Tree Maker automatically searches Ancestry.com for historical documents about the individuals in the user’s family tree. Ancestry.com subscribers can easily view and import these historical records into their family tree with just a few mouse clicks.

Family Tree Maker 2010 is the current PC version of the software. The Mac version of Family Tree Maker will be built on the functionality of Family Tree Maker 2010 and constructed from the bottom up to take full advantage of the Mac platform in terms of technology and user experience.

Early this year, Ancestry.com expanded to another Apple® platform: the iPhone®. With the launch of its Tree To Go iPhone application in January 2010, Ancestry.com now gives users access to generations of family history at every turn. From their iPhone, users can easily upload photos, update sources and edit trees. The Tree To Go iPhone application is available for iPhone and iPod touch® for free through the iPhone App Store or iTunes®.

Ancestry.com also announced today the launch of its new Ancestry.com Wiki. This wiki will feature a living version of the company’s two largest reference books, The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy and Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources. These books, which are exhaustive guides to American genealogy, will now be made available for the family history community to update, expand on and even add to, making it a go-to resource for guidance and information. The beta version of the Ancestry.com Wiki is available to the public for free at www.ancestry.com/wiki.
About Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM) is the world’s largest online family history resource, with more than one million paying subscribers. The company has digitized and put online more than 4 billion records over the past 13 years. Ancestry users have created over 14 million family trees containing nearly 1.5 billion profiles. Ancestry.com has local Web sites directed at nine countries, including its flagship Web site at www.ancestry.com.

Further Reading:
* Announcement at Blogs.Ancestry.com
* FamilyTreeMaker.com
* Ancestry.com Tree-to-Go Entry at MobileGenealogy.com