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Family Tree Maker Mac Manual Instructions
New User InterfaceModern look
More logical structure
Easier and more comfortable to use
Customizable color scheme
Collapsable functions bar to gain even more space, especially handy when using smaller screens

Completely New ChartsStore information about the author of your family tree like your postal address and contact information; New Help Function & User Manual. Completely rewritten user manual; Every view in MacFamilyTree has a small question mark icon – click on it and you'll be directly taken to the relevant section of the user manual. ‎Family Tree Builder® is a powerful app that let's you organize your family tree research and discoveries within the shortest time possible. The Ability to render fullscreen charts allows you to turn your Mac or Macbook into a powerful visualization tool. You can create a family tree and copy or sha. Software MacKiev.
Greatly enhanced performance
Multicore processors found in modern Macs are fully utilized
Rendering charts is completely handled by the graphics hardware/GPU
Nearly unlimited options configuring charts
Many included themes and templates
Text-only themes 
Themes optimised for monochrome printing
Much improved and more efficient PDF export
Bitmap export as a PNG or JPEG file, optionally as individual pages
Several options to colorize generations added
Improved display of step and adoptive relationships
Age of the person at time of an event can be included optionally
Improved search for specific persons in a chart
New coloring options: By age and by birth year
Customize the name format to be used in a chart
Choose between different date formats (like long or short formats) to be displayed
 New Tree Chart Much improved layout
Greatly enhanced performance
Persons are grouped for easier navigation
Many new options to configure the Tree Chart
 New Fan Chart Optionally include person images
Many new themes and templates
New configuration options added
Optionally displays all events and facts for persons
Greatly enhanced text display
 New Descendancy Chart Improved layout
Can display up to 100 generations
 Improved Statistics Chart Much improved configuration options
Fully customise the appearance of the diagram grid
Optionally display numbers at each data point
Much improved performance
New statistic type: Month of divorce
New statistic type: First names
New statistic type: Titles
New statistic type: Age at christening
New statistic type: Age at retirement
New statistic type: Place of marriage, country of marriage
New statistic type: Place of burial, country of burial
New statistic type: Year of christening, year of burial
New statistic type: Genders
Option to exclude events and facts marked as private
 New Distribution Chart Visualize the distribution of names, birth place, birth country and genders over time
Also displays all person facts, like eye color, over time
Additionally shows the distribution of illnesses and occupations over time
Improved configuration options
Much improved graphics
Enhanced performance
 New Double Ancestor Chart New layout options added
Much improved layout and space usage
Optionally include brothers and sisters of ancestors
 Improved Ancestor Chart New compact view
Improved display of branches (when two distinct branches are colliding, they are separated by a greater distance)
Start person and partners are displayed in separate groups optionally
Now supports up to 100 generations
Optionally include brothers and sisters of the ancestors
 Improved Hourglass Chart Better space usage and layout
Optionally display the persons age at the time of event
New coloring option: By age
 Improved Timeline Better space usage and layout
Optionally display the persons age at the time of event
New coloring option: By age
 Improved Genogram Configurable Layout
Much improved display of events
Improved connection lines
 Improved Saved Charts Section Better user interface
Improved Thumbnails
Completely New ReportsMany themes and styles included ranging from plain text to coloful and complex designs
Each report and report theme is completely configurable to the last detail
Export all lists as CSV files compatible to Numbers and Excel
All reports can be exported as plain text or RTF files
On larger screens, several report pages can be shown side-by-side for better space usage
Choose between different date formats (like long or short formats) to be displayed
Source citations are now completely configurable. All information from a source can also be included in the source citation.
Choose between three on-screen display modes: Normal page, endless page without page breaks or scalable full-screen view
Click on persons, events, places, sources or media in a report to directly access the entry in the edit section
 New Status Report A summary of your Family Tree – for example, how many Persons or Families have been added
 New Timeline Report Shows the chronology of a Person and Close Relatives
 New Change Log Report Displays all changes to persons, families, sources and media
 New Today Report Lists all events that have occurred on Today's Date in your Family Tree
 New Fact List Displays all entered Facts grouped by Fact Type
 New LDS Ordinances Report Lists all ordinances that have been reserved or printed (For LDS members)
 New Person List Freely specify what should be displayed in each column
Many options to customize sorting and grouping
 Improved Person Report Overview section at the beginning of the person report
Much improved ancestors and descendants section
Specify how large images of persons are displayed
Optionally display reference numbers like GEDCOM IDs or AFN numbers
 Improved Family Report Much improved layout of events and facts
Optionally display reference numbers like GEDCOM IDs or AFN numbers
Optionally, the family report shows an overview of the selected family at the start of the report
 Improved Descendancy Report Much improved layout, especially when displaying parents
Optionally display marriage dates or further information about parents
 Improved Map Report Configure which person events should be used to display the map report
Optionally consolidate events at the same place
 Improved Marriage List / Family List New grouping options: By last name of husband, last name of wife or marriage place
Freely specify what should be displayed in each column
 Improved Events List Optionally deactivate the grouping of events by year
Option to only evaluate events of living persons
 Improved Places List Option to only evaluate events of living persons
Improved grouping options
Enhanced display of events at a place
 Improved Anniversary Report Optionally displays the anniversary year of an event
Much improved configuration options
 Improved Person Analysis Improved user interface for selecting the analysis mode
Enhanced display of persons in the report
 Improved Sources List Specify how large images of the source should be displayed
New grouping option: By source archive
 Improved To Do Report Optionally display an overview at the beginning of the report showing the count of unresolved and resolved to dos in the family tree
Colorize Vintage PhotosMagically create color images from your precious black & white photographs in a single click — with the help of Artificial Intelligence
MacFamilyTree's Artificial Intelligence automatically recognizes grass, sky, and faces and then chooses the appropriate colors
Works especially well with Portraits, Landscape Photographs, and Group Pictures of up to 10 Persons
Image Enhancement & Image-Editing FeaturesEnhances pictures with the help of Machine Learning
Scales Pictures up to quadruple the size of the original to reveal details not present in the Original Picture
Removes noise and Compression Artifacts — especially useful for older scanned documents and low-resolution images
Stepless rotation and easy to use crop function for photographs and scanned documents
Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation of images
Non-Destructive: Every Operation can be reverted and Original Images are never altered
DNA Test ResultsAdd DNA test results to each person in your family tree – every major genealogy test vendor is supported
Support for Y-DNA, mtDNA and autosomal DNA tests
Additionally add media (PDFs, images), notes and to dos for each test
Option to add raw DNA data for each test
Multiple tests of different vendors can be added to a single person if required
CloudTree Sync & Share 2.0Share databases of any size with friends, family or between your own devices
No more limitation to 5000 entries
Considerably faster and more efficient sync
Much faster invitations to other people
New Chart EditorEdit events or facts to be shown for specific persons
Improved options for text added to the chart
Improved arrows and lines: More options and line/arrow labels
Enhanced options to distribute the chart to multiple pages
Improved user interface layout
Undo/redo
New Report EditorUndo/redo
Customize each word, color or font of a report
Remove unwanted sections in a report
Add annotations, pictures, PDFs and Text as well as additional rows in tables
Copy & paste text from or to the new reports editor

Enhanced Family Tree BooksExactly specify which fonts should be used in your book
Also, all colors can be freely configured for the whole book
Choose what should be shown on the title page of your book
Specify an image for the title page or a family crest
Options to configure the page margins for odd and even pages
Database enhancementsIf no birth dates for children are known, the birth order can be manually specified
Much improved handling of step and adoptive relationships
Enter alternate place names for every place. Especially handy of a place name changed over time.
Title can be optionally entered as an additional name
Specify which images should be displayed in the family tree icon in the welcome window
Ages and date spans are now displayed as components (days, months, years) instead of fractional numbers throughout the app
Hide specific images of persons or families from showing up in charts or reports
Improved Welcome WindowMuch better space usage, especially when managing a large number of family trees
Specify the sort order of the family trees displayed
Optionally hide family trees from older versions
Author information & Family CrestsStore Family Crests of your family tree
Display your Family Crests Charts and Reports
Store information about the author of your family tree like your postal address and contact information
New Help Function & User ManualCompletely rewritten user manual
Every view in MacFamilyTree has a small question mark icon – click on it and you'll be directly taken to the relevant section of the user manual
Integrated reader for the user manual including search and a handy table of contents bar
MorePerformance enhancements across the board
Improved GEDCOM import & export
File Format
NameFamily Tree Maker
 OntologyElectronic File FormatsGenealogical dataFamily Tree Maker
Extension(s).ftm, .ftmb, .ftmm, .ftmd, .ftw, .fbk
PRONOMfmt/1352, fmt/1353
Wikidata IDQ20643957
Released1989
Family Tree Maker is genealogy software for Windows & Mac. Originally developed by Banner Blue Software, was purchased by Broderbund in 1995. Versions 1-2 were under the Banner Blue title. Versions 3-4 under Broderbund. Versions 5-7 under The Learning Company, then Ancestry.com from versions 7.5 to 2014. Ancestry sold product to MacKiev in 2014.
1File format
 File format 

File Format
Name	Family Tree Maker
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Genealogical data Family Tree Maker
Extension(s)	`.ftm`, `.ftmb`, `.ftmm`, `.ftmd`, `.ftw`, `.fbk`
PRONOM	fmt/1352, fmt/1353
Wikidata ID	Q20643957
Released	1989

An encrypted SQLite database is used for version ??
.FTW format is based on the 'OLE2' document container format. All FTW files contain a file within the OLE container call 'GENERAL.DB'. Version of software used to write the file is at byte 4 followed by the following ascii string. 'File Format (C) Copyright 1993 Banner Blue Software Inc. - All Rights Reserved'
file extension by versionFamily Tree Maker Mac Family Tree Maker versions 1 - 2 for Mac (.*FTMD or *.FTMM)
 Family Tree Maker DOS versions 1 – 4 (*.FTM) 1989-1995
 Family Tree Maker Windows versions 1 – 4 (*.FTW, *.FBK) 1993-1997
 Family Tree Maker versions 5 - 16 (*.FTW or *.FBK) 1998-2006[1]
 Family Tree Maker 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 for Windows (*.FTM, *.FTMB (Zip compressed FTM))
 Family Tree Maker 3 for Mac (*.FTM, *.FTMB)
 Family Tree Maker 2010 and 2012 for Mac (*.FTMM, *.FTMD)
 Classic Family Tree Maker Files (*.ftw)
SoftwareReferencesFamily Tree Maker - wikipedia
Ancestry - wikipedia
↑https://web.archive.org/web/20110720091645/http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/08/family_tree_mak.html

Completely New ChartsStore information about the author of your family tree like your postal address and contact information; New Help Function & User Manual. Completely rewritten user manual; Every view in MacFamilyTree has a small question mark icon – click on it and you'll be directly taken to the relevant section of the user manual. ‎Family Tree Builder® is a powerful app that let's you organize your family tree research and discoveries within the shortest time possible. The Ability to render fullscreen charts allows you to turn your Mac or Macbook into a powerful visualization tool. You can create a family tree and copy or sha. Software MacKiev.
Greatly enhanced performance
Multicore processors found in modern Macs are fully utilized
Rendering charts is completely handled by the graphics hardware/GPU
Nearly unlimited options configuring charts
Many included themes and templates
Text-only themes 
Themes optimised for monochrome printing
Much improved and more efficient PDF export
Bitmap export as a PNG or JPEG file, optionally as individual pages
Several options to colorize generations added
Improved display of step and adoptive relationships
Age of the person at time of an event can be included optionally
Improved search for specific persons in a chart
New coloring options: By age and by birth year
Customize the name format to be used in a chart
Choose between different date formats (like long or short formats) to be displayed
 New Tree Chart Much improved layout
Greatly enhanced performance
Persons are grouped for easier navigation
Many new options to configure the Tree Chart
 New Fan Chart Optionally include person images
Many new themes and templates
New configuration options added
Optionally displays all events and facts for persons
Greatly enhanced text display
 New Descendancy Chart Improved layout
Can display up to 100 generations
 Improved Statistics Chart Much improved configuration options
Fully customise the appearance of the diagram grid
Optionally display numbers at each data point
Much improved performance
New statistic type: Month of divorce
New statistic type: First names
New statistic type: Titles
New statistic type: Age at christening
New statistic type: Age at retirement
New statistic type: Place of marriage, country of marriage
New statistic type: Place of burial, country of burial
New statistic type: Year of christening, year of burial
New statistic type: Genders
Option to exclude events and facts marked as private
 New Distribution Chart Visualize the distribution of names, birth place, birth country and genders over time
Also displays all person facts, like eye color, over time
Additionally shows the distribution of illnesses and occupations over time
Improved configuration options
Much improved graphics
Enhanced performance
 New Double Ancestor Chart New layout options added
Much improved layout and space usage
Optionally include brothers and sisters of ancestors
 Improved Ancestor Chart New compact view
Improved display of branches (when two distinct branches are colliding, they are separated by a greater distance)
Start person and partners are displayed in separate groups optionally
Now supports up to 100 generations
Optionally include brothers and sisters of the ancestors
 Improved Hourglass Chart Better space usage and layout
Optionally display the persons age at the time of event
New coloring option: By age
 Improved Timeline Better space usage and layout
Optionally display the persons age at the time of event
New coloring option: By age
 Improved Genogram Configurable Layout
Much improved display of events
Improved connection lines
 Improved Saved Charts Section Better user interface
Improved Thumbnails
Completely New ReportsMany themes and styles included ranging from plain text to coloful and complex designs
Each report and report theme is completely configurable to the last detail
Export all lists as CSV files compatible to Numbers and Excel
All reports can be exported as plain text or RTF files
On larger screens, several report pages can be shown side-by-side for better space usage
Choose between different date formats (like long or short formats) to be displayed
Source citations are now completely configurable. All information from a source can also be included in the source citation.
Choose between three on-screen display modes: Normal page, endless page without page breaks or scalable full-screen view
Click on persons, events, places, sources or media in a report to directly access the entry in the edit section
 New Status Report A summary of your Family Tree – for example, how many Persons or Families have been added
 New Timeline Report Shows the chronology of a Person and Close Relatives
 New Change Log Report Displays all changes to persons, families, sources and media
 New Today Report Lists all events that have occurred on Today's Date in your Family Tree
 New Fact List Displays all entered Facts grouped by Fact Type
 New LDS Ordinances Report Lists all ordinances that have been reserved or printed (For LDS members)
 New Person List Freely specify what should be displayed in each column
Many options to customize sorting and grouping
 Improved Person Report Overview section at the beginning of the person report
Much improved ancestors and descendants section
Specify how large images of persons are displayed
Optionally display reference numbers like GEDCOM IDs or AFN numbers
 Improved Family Report Much improved layout of events and facts
Optionally display reference numbers like GEDCOM IDs or AFN numbers
Optionally, the family report shows an overview of the selected family at the start of the report
 Improved Descendancy Report Much improved layout, especially when displaying parents
Optionally display marriage dates or further information about parents
 Improved Map Report Configure which person events should be used to display the map report
Optionally consolidate events at the same place
 Improved Marriage List / Family List New grouping options: By last name of husband, last name of wife or marriage place
Freely specify what should be displayed in each column
 Improved Events List Optionally deactivate the grouping of events by year
Option to only evaluate events of living persons
 Improved Places List Option to only evaluate events of living persons
Improved grouping options
Enhanced display of events at a place
 Improved Anniversary Report Optionally displays the anniversary year of an event
Much improved configuration options
 Improved Person Analysis Improved user interface for selecting the analysis mode
Enhanced display of persons in the report
 Improved Sources List Specify how large images of the source should be displayed
New grouping option: By source archive
 Improved To Do Report Optionally display an overview at the beginning of the report showing the count of unresolved and resolved to dos in the family tree
Colorize Vintage PhotosMagically create color images from your precious black & white photographs in a single click — with the help of Artificial Intelligence
MacFamilyTree's Artificial Intelligence automatically recognizes grass, sky, and faces and then chooses the appropriate colors
Works especially well with Portraits, Landscape Photographs, and Group Pictures of up to 10 Persons
Image Enhancement & Image-Editing FeaturesEnhances pictures with the help of Machine Learning
Scales Pictures up to quadruple the size of the original to reveal details not present in the Original Picture
Removes noise and Compression Artifacts — especially useful for older scanned documents and low-resolution images
Stepless rotation and easy to use crop function for photographs and scanned documents
Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation of images
Non-Destructive: Every Operation can be reverted and Original Images are never altered
DNA Test ResultsAdd DNA test results to each person in your family tree – every major genealogy test vendor is supported
Support for Y-DNA, mtDNA and autosomal DNA tests
Additionally add media (PDFs, images), notes and to dos for each test
Option to add raw DNA data for each test
Multiple tests of different vendors can be added to a single person if required
CloudTree Sync & Share 2.0Share databases of any size with friends, family or between your own devices
No more limitation to 5000 entries
Considerably faster and more efficient sync
Much faster invitations to other people
New Chart EditorEdit events or facts to be shown for specific persons
Improved options for text added to the chart
Improved arrows and lines: More options and line/arrow labels
Enhanced options to distribute the chart to multiple pages
Improved user interface layout
Undo/redo
New Report EditorUndo/redo
Customize each word, color or font of a report
Remove unwanted sections in a report
Add annotations, pictures, PDFs and Text as well as additional rows in tables
Copy & paste text from or to the new reports editor
Enhanced Family Tree BooksExactly specify which fonts should be used in your book
Also, all colors can be freely configured for the whole book
Choose what should be shown on the title page of your book
Specify an image for the title page or a family crest
Options to configure the page margins for odd and even pages
Database enhancementsIf no birth dates for children are known, the birth order can be manually specified
Much improved handling of step and adoptive relationships
Enter alternate place names for every place. Especially handy of a place name changed over time.
Title can be optionally entered as an additional name
Specify which images should be displayed in the family tree icon in the welcome window
Ages and date spans are now displayed as components (days, months, years) instead of fractional numbers throughout the app
Hide specific images of persons or families from showing up in charts or reports
Improved Welcome WindowMuch better space usage, especially when managing a large number of family trees
Specify the sort order of the family trees displayed
Optionally hide family trees from older versions
Author information & Family CrestsStore Family Crests of your family tree
Display your Family Crests Charts and Reports
Store information about the author of your family tree like your postal address and contact information
New Help Function & User ManualCompletely rewritten user manual
Every view in MacFamilyTree has a small question mark icon – click on it and you'll be directly taken to the relevant section of the user manual
Integrated reader for the user manual including search and a handy table of contents bar
MorePerformance enhancements across the board
Improved GEDCOM import & export
File Format
NameFamily Tree Maker
 OntologyElectronic File FormatsGenealogical dataFamily Tree Maker
Extension(s).ftm, .ftmb, .ftmm, .ftmd, .ftw, .fbk
PRONOMfmt/1352, fmt/1353
Wikidata IDQ20643957
Released1989
Family Tree Maker is genealogy software for Windows & Mac. Originally developed by Banner Blue Software, was purchased by Broderbund in 1995. Versions 1-2 were under the Banner Blue title. Versions 3-4 under Broderbund. Versions 5-7 under The Learning Company, then Ancestry.com from versions 7.5 to 2014. Ancestry sold product to MacKiev in 2014.
1File format
 File format An encrypted SQLite database is used for version ??
.FTW format is based on the 'OLE2' document container format. All FTW files contain a file within the OLE container call 'GENERAL.DB'. Version of software used to write the file is at byte 4 followed by the following ascii string. 'File Format (C) Copyright 1993 Banner Blue Software Inc. - All Rights Reserved'
file extension by versionFamily Tree Maker Mac Family Tree Maker versions 1 - 2 for Mac (.*FTMD or *.FTMM)
 Family Tree Maker DOS versions 1 – 4 (*.FTM) 1989-1995
 Family Tree Maker Windows versions 1 – 4 (*.FTW, *.FBK) 1993-1997
 Family Tree Maker versions 5 - 16 (*.FTW or *.FBK) 1998-2006[1]
 Family Tree Maker 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 for Windows (*.FTM, *.FTMB (Zip compressed FTM))
 Family Tree Maker 3 for Mac (*.FTM, *.FTMB)
 Family Tree Maker 2010 and 2012 for Mac (*.FTMM, *.FTMD)
 Classic Family Tree Maker Files (*.ftw)
SoftwareReferencesFamily Tree Maker - wikipedia
Ancestry - wikipedia
↑https://web.archive.org/web/20110720091645/http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/08/family_tree_mak.html
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