Monday, August 12, 2019

Family Tree Maker 2019 News - Last Day For $39.95 Upgrade is 14 August

I received this from Jack Minsky of Software MacKiev about Family Tree Maker 2019 in email on Friday:

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THE LAUNCH COUNTDOWN HAS STARTED

It's just past mid-summer and here we are – happily right on schedule, putting the finishing touches on this year's big event – the launch of FTM 2019. Our newest edition proudly takes this grand old Family Tree Maker brand to places its original creators could only have dreamed about. Where every change you make to your tree on your Mac or PC can be instantly and automatically viewed from your smart phone or tablet. Where you can turn back time to erase mistakes you made even a thousand changes ago. Where you can arrange for your tree to be passed on to a relative of your choice along with your Family Tree Maker license to ensure your legacy lives on. That's just a small part of the new world of Family Tree Maker you'll be seeing in just a few weeks.
LAST CHANCE TO PRE-ORDER AND SAVE.
Click here to pre-order FTM 2019. Pre-order sales end August 14th.
FTM 2019
Four Days Left – Pre-order Now
Save $40 on an upgrade to FTM 2019.

TOP TEN REASONS TO UPGRADE NOW

10. Turn Back Time.
This one might just be worth the whole upgrade. FTM 2019 keeps track of every one of your last THOUSAND changes. Made a mistake three days ago but your last full backup is three weeks old? Simply roll back to just before the mistake was made with a single click. Then use the comprehensive Changes Log to restore the moves you meant to make. Problem solved.
9. FamilySearch Integration 2.0.
Lots of news here starting with the ability to download an entire branch from a FamilySearch tree into FTM 2019. But the big news is historical record hints which you'll get when you match a person in your Family Tree Maker tree to a person in a FamilySearch family tree. Simple as that.
8. Hints in the Index.
Once found only on tree views, in FTM 2019, those little green Ancestry leaves and FamilySearch hints now appear in the people index too. So you can check for hints for a particular family name or for any saved list.
7. Smart Filters.
In FTM 2017 we introduced the ability to save filtered lists. Now those lists just got smarter. The filter that created the list actively gathers any new people who meet that filter's criteria as soon as they are added to your tree. For example, if your filtered list is for military service, when you add two more service men or women to your tree, they'll be added automatically to that list.
6. Folder counters.
Stop peeking into folders to see if there's anything in there. Numbers on your folder tabs now show the number of items stored in each one. Simple idea. Big time-saver.
5. Profile Picture perfection.
Clean up the look of your tree with our new profile picture-cropping tool. Smart technology detects the person's face and zooms in just the right amount, then crops a perfect square so that it fits perfectly on each leaf of your tree. And best of all, the original photo is not touched.
4. Tree Browser.
Get what you're looking for quickly with this new window into your tree files. Search a family name and find all related trees wherever they are – on Ancestry, on your hard drive, or up in the clouds. And for each tree you'll have everything you need to know or do at your fingertips. Does that FTM tree have a linked Ancestry tree, and if so, under what name? No links to an Ancestry tree? Click Download in the browser to get it all synched up.
3. Rich Color Coding.
One of the most frequent requests from genealogists using FTM 2017's color coding, was for "rich" color coding – not just coding the home person's ancestors but each ancestor's descendants as well. With FTM 2019, rich color coding is just one click away.
2. TreeVault Cloud Services.
With TreeVault you'll be able to view your FTM tree on your smartphone or tablet. You'll know what the weather was like the day your grandfather was born. And you'll sleep better knowing that you have an up to date copy of your tree securely tucked away, and that someday it will be passed on to the next generation. We will be adding new services with each update, but here's the starting lineup:
  • Emergency Tree™ restore service. TreeVault keeps a continuously updated copy of your tree ready to hand back to you if your hard drive should crash or some other catastrophe strikes.
  • FTM Connect™ is a FREE mobile app (for iPad, iPhone and coming soon for Android) that displays your latest FTM tree anywhere, any time – even when your computer is off. Handy for sharing your tree with relatives or for using your iPad as a second monitor with your continuously updated tree.
  • Historical Weather™ allows you to set the scene for events in your family story with more than a billion historical weather records. Dates will never be boring again. Consider:
  • Next of Kin™ allows you to designate a successor to your TreeVault account to pass along your family tree and research records. You will get a certificate that may be included with a will, providing instructions and passcodes for taking over your account along with your Family Tree Maker license.
1. The price goes up in a few days, right?
Right. There's just four days left to pre-order. That's your last chance to get an upgrade to FTM 2019 for $39.95 ($20 off the regular upgrade price of $59.95). And as if that weren't good enough, you'll double your savings with a full year of TreeVault cloud services for FREE. This offer is for FTM 2017 owners only. Click here to learn more.

STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?

If there's something you'd like to know about upgrading, you can pose your questions to our friendly Support Agents, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via Live Chat. Just click the Live Chat button below.
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HERE'S TO THE ROAD AHEAD

It was in the fall of 1989 that version 1.0 of Family Tree Maker was first released on floppy discs by Banner Blue and we're just the fourth publisher in the thirty years since then to have the honor of taking a turn at the helm. We hope you'll get a chance to be among the first to fire up the smartest, fastest, most ambitious Family Tree Maker ever built. And when you do, we hope you'll let us know what you think. Get ready, and stay tuned. We're just getting started.
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HOW DO I DO THAT?

UPGRADE TO FTM 2019

All users of previous editions can upgrade at a discount:
  • FTM 2017 owners, click here.
  • All others (with older editions), click here.

LEARN MORE ABOUT FTM 2019

1. Go to support.familytreemaker.com
2. Enter “FTM 2019” in the search field.

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Disclosure:  I have been a customer of Family Tree Maker since 1995.  I have received several complimentary copies of the software from Software MacKiev in the past three years.  I have not received a complimentary upgrade to FTM 2019.


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1 comment:

Wanda said...

Thanks for posting this, Randy. I did not receive an e-mail notification of the upgrade offer so would have missed it otherwise. Wanda