Getting Started With RootsFinder - Part 2: Family Tree Profiles

I posted RootsFinder Delivers Powerful New Tools to Genealogists for FREE on Saturday, 17 February 2018 and immediately tried to use it.  Yesterday, I went through the program menu items in Getting Started With RootsFinder - Part 1: Program Menu Items.

In this post, I'm going to look through a profile in my RootsFinder online family tree.  Since I imported this tree from the FamilySearch Family Tree, the profiles depend upon what is in each FamilySearch Family Tree profile. 

1)  Here is my RootsFinder family tree when I open the program:

I can click on one of the right-facing arrows on the right side of the image above and see additional ancestors.  I clicked on the arrow for Frank Walton Seaver on the chart above and can see three additional generations of his ancestors (I had to drag and drop the screen to the left):

2)  I'm going to look at the RootsFinder profile of my great-grandfather, Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922), who has a FamilySearch Person ID of LCRC-8K6.

In RootsFinder, I clicked on Frank's name to see his RootsFinder Profile:

The popup box for this profile opened, and there are three buttons below the person summary - for "View Tree," "View Profile," and "Edit Profile."

There are lists presented on the window above for "Spouses & Children" and "Parents & Siblings."

Each profile has gold stars for the number of "Evidences" (sources), and a green circle with a number in it for the number of "Hints" found.

3)  I want to "View Profile" for Frank to determine what is transferred from the FamilySearch Family Tree profile and how it is presented.  I clicked on the "View Profile" button on the screen above:

The screen above has these features:

*  A summary of the person's profile (in the gray background area on the screen above) - name, birth, death, parents names, gold stars and the Hints green circle, plus a RootsFinder ID number (which seems to have no relationship to the FamilySearch Family Tree ID).

*  In the left-hand column below the profile summary there are lists of the "Timeline," "Names," "Other Sources," "Notes," and "Research Logs."

*  In the right-hand column below the profile summary there are lists of the "Hints & ToDos," "Parents & Siblings" and "Spouses & Children."

*  Below the summary profile, there are icons provided for "Tree," "Bookmak," "Hints," "Research," "FamilySearch," "Video," "Share," "Merge," "Edit" and "Delete."

You can see each Timeline item (with a date and age, the event type, the event place, and the gold star to indicate a source is available.  By clicking on the Event type, the user can see an Edit Event icon and a Delete Event icon, plus a field to add supporting evidence.  For a Timeline item with a gold star, you can click on the star and see the Evidence provided.

By clicking on each Hint item, you can see the record provider, the Hint content, and a link to the Hint.  There is also an "Edit Hint" icon and a "Delete Hint" icon.

Further down, there are more Timeline events and Hints:

4)  I clicked on the Timeline event for a marriage and a Hint for a marriage, so you can see the information provided:

5)  Still further down, the Hints on the right-side end, and the list of "Parents & Siblings" and "Spouses & Children" begins:

6)  Still further down, the list of Timeline Events ends on the left side, and the "Untitled" Events (Gender and Biography in this case), and Names (including "Other" Names) are presented:

I believe that the Biography in this case is obtained from the "Life Sketch" field on the FamilySearch Family Tree.

7)  Still further down, the "Other Sources" are listed.  I believe that these are obtained from the "Sources" list on the FamilySearch Family Tree profile, which are not keyed to an Event in Family Tree.

8)  Still further down the list on the left-hand side are the "Notes."  I believe these are obtained, in this case, from the FamilySearch "Notes" list on the FamilySearch profile.

I clicked on one of the "Notes" on the screen above to see the content.

9)  The last item on the list in the left-hand column is for "Research Logs"  (not shown on the screens above).

10)  The user can add information to any of these fields by clicking on the Edit icon or the "+" (Plus) button.

11)  There is a lot more work to do on a person Profile in RootsFinder.  So far we've looked only at the information that is imported from the FamilySearch Family Tree.  

It appears that just about every field on the FamilySearch Family Tree profile for a person was transferred to RootsFinder, with the exception of the "Changes" and "Discussions" fields.

In the next post in the series, I want to look in some detail at the icons below the person's Summary Profile.  

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NOTE:  I have received no remuneration for writing this blog post or accessing RootsFinder.com.  I am in the process of reviewing the RootsFinder program.

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1684 Birth Record of Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749) of Chelmsford and Westford, Mass. --- Post 401 of Treasure Chest Thursday

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1684 birth record in Chelmsford, Massachusetts for Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749):

The Samuel Fletcher birth record is about 30% down the left-hand page on the image above:

The transcription of this record (which is very difficult to read) is:

"Samuell Fletcher son of Samuell and Hannah Fletcher born September 5^th 1684."

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images,   Ancestry.com   (http://www.ancestry.com), "Chelmsford Birth, Marriage and Deaths," Page 12 (Image 359 of 1719), Samuell Fletcher birth entry.

There is a Chelmsford vital record book entry for Samuel Fletcher, which was probably obtained from an earlier town record book. 

Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749) was the fifth of ten children born to Samuel Fletcher (1652-1723) and Hannah Wheeler (1649-1697) of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.  He married Hannah --?-- (1689-1759) in about 1712  and they had nine children between 1713 and 1729, all born in Chelmsford except for the last child born in Westford.

They are my 6th great-grandparents.  I descend through their daughter Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761), who married Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781) in 1746.

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Dear Randy: Can I Print a Pedigree Chart of my Ancestry Member Tree?

One of my correspondents asked this question recently, and my short answer was "YES."

But I wasn't sure how to do it, so this is for you, Ray:

1)  Go to your Ancestry Member Tree, and choose the Pedigree Chart view:

2)  The "Printer" icon at the bottom of the icons on the far left of the screen above will produce a Pedigree chart.  When I clicked the "Printer" icon, I saw:

That produced a 5 generation pedigree chart.

3)  I can Print that chart by clicking on the orange "Print" button on the screen above:

My "Print" dialog opened and I could click on the blue "Print" button.

However, the tree image is fairly small - it doesn't take the whole page.  That's how it is, I guess.  On my computer, I tried fiddling with the margins and options and was not able to improve it.  I eventually saved it as a PDF file.  When I printed it out, I could barely read the names and event data.

4)  Can I print more generations?  Yes, you can by clicking on each person on the Ancestry Member Tree pedigree view with an arrow to the right, and you will see that person's tree for four more generations.

5)  There are other printing options at the top of the pedigree chart (second image above) to "Create a Book," "Create a Poster," and "Create a Calendar."  Clicking one of those takes you to the MyCanvas website of Alexanders, which will create those items for a fee straight from your Ancestry Member Tree.

6)  My opinion is that this pedigree chart, when printed out, is fairly primitive and inadequate for my needs.  Desktop genealogy software, such as Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, or Legacy Family Tree provide more options and capability, plus larger wall charts with more generations.

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Getting Started With RootsFinder - Part 1: Program Menu Items

I posted RootsFinder Delivers Powerful New Tools to Genealogists for FREE on Saturday, 17 February 2018 and immediately tried to use it.  

I watched a bit of the "how to" video on the RootsFinder home page, and then clicked on the "Start Now...It's Free" button.

After logging into RootsFinder (it is FREE!), I was able to upload a family tree from FamilySearch Family Tree to RootsFinder, importing four generations of ancestors and one generation of descendants for those ancestors.  I was also able to import four more generations of ancestors for some of my ancestors.  I called this tree "Randy Seaver's FamilySearch Tree."

A user can also import a GEDCOM file, and I will do that soon so that I can compare and contrast the differences between the two import methods.  I'm not sure how many generations I'll be able to import using a GEDCOM file.

In this post, I want to highlight the different "menu" features available to use on RootsFinder.  Note that this is for my FamilySearch Family Tree, so it will include information from myself and other persons.

1)  Here is the Home Page for my account:

My Home Page includes:

*  My tree listing - I can select which tree I wish to use.

*  There is a "Demo Theater" in the middle of the page, with two sets of tabs - one set above the video screen and one below the video for each upper set of tabs.

*  There is a "News" listing on the left side.

*  There is an ad on the right side - this is the price of it bring a free online family tree.

2)  I clicked on the "Randy Seaver's FamilySearch Family Tree" on the screen above (recall that I have already imported data from Family Tree) and saw:

The tree shows four generations of my tree, with the persons name, the lifespan years, a series of gold stars, a green circle with a number in it, and a photo of the person.

I can use the "home" icon at the top left of the tree to get back to the home person (m,e!), or use the "+ or "-" buttons to zoom in and out on the tree.  I can use the arrow beside each person on the right-hand side of the tree to see up to three more generations of the selected person.

Over on the left side of the tree screen, there is a long list of menu items that control what the user sees on the screen.  I will go through many of these in the rest of this post:

3)  Here is the "Dashboard" screen:

The Dashboard shows me the most recent additions to my tree.

I can click on a person and edit the supporting evidence, or delete the person using the icons next to the person's name (not shown above).

There is a "Bookmark" opportunity on the left side of the screen above, and the user can select a name from the tree to "Bookmark."

4)  The "People" menu item provides a list of tree persons in last name - first name alphabetical order:

For each person, their birth date, death date, number of stars, number of hints, and FamilySearch ID number are provided.

There is a search box in the blue background at the top of the list.  The user can start typing the first name and then pick from the list, which seems to include some parents names also.

5)  The "Media" menu item shows all of the Media items attached to my imported ancestral families:

6)  The "Hints & ToDos" menu item includes the Hints that RootsFinder found on several different websites for me for my tree persons:

For this menu item, I can search for "Hints and ToDos" for specific tree persons.

7)  I'm skipping the "Research Logs," "DNA (experimental)," and "invitations" menu items for now.

8)  The "Content Lists" menu items has several items on it.  The first is "Evidences" which seems to be Divorce, Marriage and Source items for tree persons:

For this menu item, I can search for "Evidences" for specific tree persons.

9)  The next menu item on the "Content Lists" is "Notes," which lists all notes for my tree persons:

For this menu item, I can search for "Notes" for specific tree persons.

I clicked on one of the "Notes" and a popup window showed me the text Note:

10)  The next menu item on the "Content Lists" is for "Sources" for my tree persons.

For this menu item, I can search for "Sources" for specific tree persons.

11)  The next menu item on the "Content Lists" is for "Stories" for my tree persons.

For this menu item, I can search for "Sources" for specific tree persons.

I clicked on one of the "Sources" and saw:

I was happy to see that formatted text (with line breaks) is presented just as it is in Family Tree.

12)  There are several more menu items on the list on the left side of the screen - for "Apps," "Reports," "Hint Settings" and "Tree Settings."  I will report on those in a later blog post.

In the next blog post, I will look at what is included in a person Profile in the RootsFinder online family tree program.

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NOTE:  I have received no remuneration for writing this blog post or accessing RootsFinder.com.  I am in the process of reviewing the RootsFinder program.

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Butterflies at the Safari Park in April 2014 -- Post 504 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I'm posting family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they aren't Wordless Wednesday posts like others do - I simply am incapable of having a wordless post.

Here are some family photos from April of 2014 -- we took the grandgirls to the San Diego Safari Park, east of Escondido, and visited the butterfly exhibit:

1)  Here's a large butterfly on the tip of Audrey's finger:

2)  Another butterfly on Lauren's hand:

3)  Linda has a butterfly on her elbow and Lauren still has hers on her hand:

4)  My hand got in this picture somehow, with two butterflies holding on:

The girls and Linda wore brightly colored and flowery blouses, which helped attract the butterflies.  

More Seaver family photos next week!

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Genealogy News Bytes - 20 February 2018

Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:

1)  News Articles:

*  JoyFlips Giving Away $80,000 Worth of FamilyArchive™ Kits at RootsTech

*  Announcing our Book Launch! Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist’s Guide

*  Family Tree Maker 2017 News - Free Update is Here!

*  New SCGS Conference and Library Policies

*  Follow-up: Turkey Shuts Down Genealogy Service after Overload of Inquiries

2)  Record Databases:

*    Free access to Ancestry's UK and Irish records

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Collections - Week of 11 to 17 February 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 11 to 17 February 2018

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*   Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 20 February, 5 p.m. PST: "Using Swedish Taxation Records to Solve Tough Genealogical Problems," by Jill Morelli

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 21 February, 11 a.m. PST: "Tribal Quest: A special project to document the family histories of tribal people" by Golan Levi

*  Upcoming SCGS Webinar - Wednesday, 21 February, 6 p.m. PST:  "Navigating the Seven C's of Genealogy," by Thomas MacEntee

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 23 February, 11 a.m. PST:  "Legacy 9 Unlocked (part 2): Adding an Online Document," by Geoff Rasmussen

*  Genealogy Gold Podcast:  #166 DNA: The Future of Unlocking Your True Family History

*  Extreme Genes Radio Show/Podcast:  Episode 225 – Got A Witch In Your Background? Here’s How To Research Her (or Him!) / The Archive Lady Returns With More Amazing Finds And Tips For Your Visit

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel:  Genealogy Game Night - 17 Feb 2018

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel:  Mondays with Myrt - 19 Feb 2018

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube Channel:  Albion's Seed Study Group - Friends Migration

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  How I manage a file that is not mine

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  Routine - Data Error Report

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  How do pass on your DNA test results to your heirs?

*  MyHeritage YouTube Channel:  MyHeritage on BBC World News

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, February 20,  2018

*  Bundle of Three Popular Pennsylvania Research Books – 60% Off Thru Friday, Feb 23

5)  Neat Stuff:

*    A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence survived the Civil War hidden behind wallpaper

*  Lock of Washington’s Hair Found in 18th-Century Almanac

*  30 Dialects of the English language in the UK

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 16 February 2018?

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MyHeritage RootsTech After Party (Friday, 2 March) Ticket Contest

Linda and I are looking forward to the genea-world famous FREE Friday night MyHeritage RootsTech After Party on Friday night, 2 March 2018 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown at City Creek hotel ( 75 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101). 

Here is the MyHeritage description of the party:

Dust off your dancing shoes and fish out your fedoras!  MyHeritage invites you to travel back in time to the Jazz age — The Roaring Twenties — for our exclusive RootsTech After-Party 2018.

1920s costumes are welcome but optional. Don't worry, we'll have plenty of loot (pearls and rhinestones) to adorn yourselves with at the event.  Light food and drink will be served. All guests will receive tickets for the prize raffle.

This party is by invitation only, but MyHeritage has offered me five tickets for my "reader friends" (each ticket holder can bring one more person to the party).  I need to give these five FREE tickets to the party away in some sort of contest.

So here's the deal:  Email me at randy.seaver@gmail.com and tell me you want a ticket for yourself and your friend, give me your name, and give me your very best genealogy research tip.  

Please enter ONLY if you are attending the RootsTech 2018 conference and can come to the MyHeritage party on Friday night.

I will list the names and randomly draw five winners.  I will notify the five winners by email with a link to register for the event.

My contest will close by Wednesday night, 21 February at 11:59 p.m. PST.  I will notify the winners on Thursday and list the winners, and all of the tips received, in a blog post on Thursday.

This is a really fun get-together.  We have enjoyed this party the last two years at RootsTech.  Here is a photo from last year's party:

I look forward to seeing many of my "reader friends" at this party.  I guarantee you will have a great time.  Be there or be square!

Maybe it won't be raining as hard this year.  I had to push Linda in her wheelchair the two blocks to our hotel last year in the horizontal rain and blustery winds last year.  We got soaked.

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Treasure Chest Tuesday - 1908 Voter Registration for Elijah McKnew in San Francisco, Calif.

This week's Tuesday Treasure is the 1908 Voter Registration record for Elijah P. McKnew in San Francisco, California:

The entry for Elijah P. McKnew is the ninth entry from the bottom:

The extracted information for Elijah McKnew in this record is:

*  No. of Affidavit:  2
*  Name:  McKnew, Elijah P.
*  Age:  71
*  Occupation:  Oyster dealer
*  Party Affiliation: Republican
*  Residence:  4131 19th 
*  Floor:  [blank]
*  Room:  All

The source citation for this record is:

"California Voter Registers, 1900-1968," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 February 2018), San Francisco County > 1908, Roll 007, no page number (image 1022 of 1539), Affidavit No. 3, Elijah P. McKnew entry.

This is the eightth Voter Registration entry (1876, 1880, 1882, 1886, 1892, 1898, 1907 and 1908) for Elijah McKnew in San Francisco.  In the 1908 registration , he was age 71, worked as an oyster dealer, and resided at "4131 19th," and was a Republican.

In this record, his name is not exactly right - it should be Elijah Pickrell McKnew, but the middle name changed almost every registration.  

Elijah McKnew (1836-1912) married Jane Whittle (1847-1921) in 1865 in Tuolumne County, California, and they had 11 children between 1867 and 1892.  Elijah and Jane (Whittle) McKnew are my wife's great-grandparents.

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Monday Genea-Pourri - 19 February 2018

Here are some of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  I continued searching for the parents of George Washington Seaver without success.  The lead of the aunt, Lucinda M. (Pease) Fields, went nowhere.  I searched the Wisconsin and California probate records on Ancestry (because they are indexed) and found no mention of George, and this process eliminated some of the potential candidates identified earlier.  I wrote up a timeline for George's life from the available data.  Now I need to document Lida J. (Robie?) (Baker) (Crooker)(Seaver) Brown's life.

2)  I moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society's Research Group last Wednesday at the Chula Vista library.  I reduced my resolution on the laptop, and my HDMI to VGA dongle still didn't work well.  Gary's dongle worked fine, so he gave it to me, and said he had another.  Gary's a nice guy!  In the group meeting, I highlighted the RootsTech video streaming, how to access the syllabus articles, the FamilySearch Library visit, my Lanfear DNA connection on MyHeritage, and the George W. Seaver saga.  We went around the table and the attendees discussed their genealogy successes and challenges over the past month.

3)  Every week, I add one or two of my AncestryDNA Shared Ancestors line to my RootsMagic database in hopes of solving some of my long-standing research problems.  This week, it is a Richman cousin (4th or 5th cousin) which provided a potential link to my end-of-line 3rd great-grandfather John Richman (1788-1867); the common ancestors are probably my John's grandparents.   
4)  I managed to download the RootsTech 2018 syllabus articles for Thursday and Friday to my computer.  I need to do the Saturday articles also.  I save these individual articles in a single file folder, changing the file name to "FirstName LastName - Presentation Title.pdf" so that they are easily findable.  I will copy that to my laptop and my Dropbox file for access at RootsTech.  I've printed off some of the articles that I know I want to save to read at my leisure.
5)  I added a tree to the new RootsFinder online family tree program, imported from FamilySearch Family Tree.  I've been exploring the layout, navigation, and features of the program.

6)  Today's Mondays with Myrt webinar highlighted:  Larry Naukum's In-Depth Genealogist laminated sheet on New York Research, and access to New York resources; the new RootsFinder online family tree program which has unique features; Ancestry added the ability to add alternate information to the SSDI and other indexed-only collections; Cyndi Ingle's Facebook post about attendees photographing or recording in-person or webinar presentations; RootsTech 2018 video stream and keynote talks; the video will be available on YouTube, and the video and the edited chat log will be available on the DearMYRTLE Community Google+ page.

7)  I have 252 Shared Ancestors on my AncestryDNA list (I had 255 last week), 743 4th cousins or closer (up from 728 last week), 639 pages (over 31,900 matches with at least 5 cM) (was 626 pages last week) of  matches.  I have 10 matches that are third cousins or closer, and 85 matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 84 last week).  My highest match has 779 cM (11.5%), and is one of my first cousins.  I have 14 DNA Circles (no change for weeks). There were no new close matches (3rd cousin or closer).  Very few of the new matches have an Ancestry Member Tree.

8)  I have 2,797 DNA Matches on MyHeritage (up from 2,692 last week) with at least 8 cM (0.1%), with 29 matches with more than 34 cM (0.5%) or more (was 19 last week).  The highest match is 184 cM (2.5%).  Most of my close matches have very small trees with no common ancestors shown.

9)  I have 1,120 DNA Relatives on 23andMe (down from 1,125 last week) who share at least 0.10% with me.  Of these, only 1 shares 1.0% or more, and 61 share 0.50% or more (was 36 last week), with the highest match being 1.54%.  I struggle to find out anything about most of these testers.

10)  I have 2,398 autosomal DNA Matches on FamilyTreeDNA (up from 2,383) who share 0.25% (18 cM) or more, with the highest match being 96 cM (1.42%).  I have 12 who share at least 1.0% (68 cM) with me, and 1,294 who share at least 0.50% (34 cM) or more (was 1,283 last week) with me.  I have had better luck finding shared ancestors here with a few of these testers.

11) There were almost daily sessions working in RootsMagic to update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and other ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 22,660 of my persons with FSFT.  I now have 49,674 persons in my RootsMagic file.   I TreeShare almost every night.  There were also several sessions in Ancestry Hints to add content and source citations for the new RootsMagic profile additions.   I've fallen behind on the Record Hints with 57,478 waiting to be resolved, but I'm working on them.  Every time I add something to RootsMagic and TreeShare, the Hints multiply.  

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Family Tree Maker 2017 News - Free Update is Here!

I received this information from Family Tree Maker over the weekend:

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It's been quite a year for us.  The introduction of FTM 2017 made it possible to continue syncing with Ancestry, and brought users color coding, FamilySearch integration, photo repair tools, and the ability to sync multiple FTM trees with a single tree on Ancestry. And now our first printed user guide is shipping and it's time for a free update for FTM 2017 users. So much to tell. Let's get started.

PRINTED USER GUIDE SHIPPING

On-screen help is nice, but for many FTM users, there's nothing more civilized than a printed user guide you can hold in your hands and browse through over a cup of tea. That's why we started the presses running in Boston, London and Sydney for the FTM 2017 Companion Guide. It's full color and 50% larger than the previous edition (which means a larger text size). And it's not too late to get your copy at a 25% discount - for just $29.95 (25% off the regular price of $39.95). Click here to learn more.

THE FREE UPDATE IS HERE

The long-awaited free update has arrived. It's officially version 23.1, and after updating you will have a faster Family Tree Maker that is more forgiving of imperfect trees, and syncs even more reliably. You'll find it much less likely to cower when it encounters interruptions, corrupted images, and other rogue elements. In short, this is the zippiest, sturdiest Family Tree Maker edition we've ever made (and we've been making them for nearly a decade now.)

WHAT'S NEW IN THE UPDATE

While this update is mostly about improving performance and stability, we've managed to squeeze in just a few enhancements. One we think you'll like is the new Sync Weather Report badges we've added to the main window so you won't have to start a sync to know what the sync conditions are like where you live. You'll see the green, orange and red badges right on the Ancestry sync icon all the time. For more about what's in the update, see ABOUT THE FREE UPDATE below.

READ THIS BEFORE YOU UPDATE

Two things to know: First, this is not a required update. While we recommend it for all users, if you are happy with the build you have and want to stay with it, you absolutely can. And second, you will be running an updater not an installer. That means when you download and double click it, the updater will look for the first edition released back in July 2017 (build 343, version 23.0) and convert it to version 23.1. So you will not have a new separate build on your computer. The build you already have will be updated from 23.0 to 23.1. Ready? Click here to go to the Update Center.

Hope you all enjoy the free update. And stay tuned. The best is yet to come.

Jack Minsky
President
Software MacKiev

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ABOUT THE FREE UPDATE

NEW FEATURES
Click here for a list of new features and fixes in the free update.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Click here for support articles and answers to questions you might have in mind.

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Disclosure:  I have paid for a Family Tree Maker 2017 software program, but have accepted material considerations in the past from Software MacKiev.

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