Family Tree Maker Version 2011 Feature Summary

Family Tree Maker 2011 includes more than 100 enhancements for discovering, preserving, and sharing your family story! Many of the new
features are listed below, and a PDF of the new features can be found
by clicking here.

Smart Stories

New Narrative Tool

Ready to start an ancestor’s story? The Smart Story Editor makes it easy by letting you drag-and-drop text and photos from your tree into a Smart Stories page. Stories update automatically when you change facts
in your tree.

Charts

Fan Charts

Choose between five different shapes when creating a fan chart.

Photos & Embellishments
Enhance charts with the backgrounds, borders and embellishments that come with Family Tree Maker, and use photos wherever you like. Font
size, type and color can be changed based on fact types.

Bow Tie Chart
Siblings can be included in the Bow Tie Chart.

Last Generation Shown Vertically

In descendant and hourglass charts, the last generation in the chart can be displayed vertically.

Pedigree Chart
The book layout for the pedigree chart has been adjusted to make better use of space.

Reports

Surname Report
The new Surname Report lists the surnames in your tree, including the total number of individuals with that surname, the number of males
and females with that surname, etc.

New Descendant Report
Family Tree Maker now gives you four descendant report options: Register, NGSQ, Henry, and d’Aboville.

Custom Report
The custom report now has user-selected primary and secondary sorts. In addition, new options allow you to include age at death, number of
children, age at first marriage, and more.

Kinship Report
You can now sort the Kinship Report by relationship (for example, first cousins can be grouped together).

Bibliography
You can create a simple bibliography of source titles or an annotated bibliography that includes summary information, such as
repository and reference notes.

Report Headers & Footers
You can define the headers and footers for a report.

Save Report Settings
You can save the current report settings and use them as the preferred settings for that report.

Photo Albums
You can now create an album for a person, relationship, or both.

Calendar
You can now choose to display death dates in the calendar.

Ancestry.com Integration

Expanded Web Dashboard

The expanded Web Dashboard now includes Member Connect activity, links to message boards, and notification of new Ancestry messages.

Enhanced Performance
You can choose the type of Internet connection you’re using, which
allows Family Tree Maker to tailor how it downloads information from the
Web. Uploading and downloading speeds have been improved, and there is
increased ability to upload large files to Ancestry.com.

General

Enhanced Index of Individuals
The Index now displays people based on name and then birth date.

Historical Timelines
Now you can edit, delete, and add to the historical events that come with Family Tree Maker. In addition, Family Tree Maker looks at facts
entered for an individual and displays the most location-appropriate
historical events.

Place Enhancements
You can now choose a “home” country, and Family Tree Maker will not display this country in fields, charts and reports. Support for
townships, parishes, and counties has also been enhanced.

LDS Information
Family Tree Maker can now display information on initiatories and confirmations. These facts can also be included in charts.

Data Entry

Automatic Reference Numbers
Family Tree Maker can now assign reference numbers automatically to individuals, relationships, or both.

Duplicate Person Alert
When you enter new individuals, Family Tree Maker alerts you if it believes you may already have the individual in your tree.

Media

Locate Missing Files
If you’ve moved your media items and Family Tree Maker has marked them as “missing,” the Find Missing Media tool can locate them all at
once.

Categories
You can now assign categories to multiple items at one time.

Media Metadata Stored in Family Tree Maker
If your images contain metadata, the information will be stored -- and a caption, date, or description, will be automatically entered.