MacFamilyTree 6.0 - Genealogy application. (Demo)

MacFamilyTree makes it easy to enter and then visualize your family history. Be it creating reports, diagrams or browsing your data in the innovative 3D view called Virtual Tree - MacFamilyTree offers a solution for every task. Get an overview of where you hail from and maybe enthuse your relatives about exploring your family\'s past at your upcoming family reunion. In its sixth iteration, MacFamilyTree 6 raises the bar even higher and offers a new user interface, more and better charts as well as reports, integration of \"New FamilySearch\", ToDo management, web research and several more features. MacFamilyTree 6 is built for Mac; and only for Mac using the latest Apple technologies.

With MacFamilyTree 6 you can:

• Enter and visualize your family history
• Choose from a large variety of reports and charts
• Use New FamilySearch.org (currently in the beta phase) for research, no subscription fees!
• Share genealogical data using the GEDCOM standard
• Publish your family tree on the internet

Updates from all previous versions are available for 25 US$

WHAT'S NEW

Version 6.0: New Family Tree pane

• Replaces the Family Assistant with a much more detailed and versatile edit mode
• Marriage Dates, Person Media, all types of events and notes can now be entered directly in the new edit mode
• Handles complex relations (e.g. multiple wives) much more accurately than the previous family assistant
• Group persons by generation using colored rows
• Different coloring mode for gender, labels or family relations
• FamilySearch Integration allows online research of ancestors

New User Interface

• Features are arranged more clearly
• Browser-like navigation between panes
• Most parts of the User Interface are now augmented by Apple’s Core Animation
• Improved palette layout and reordering
• More concise user interface layout for charting and reporting views

Completely Rewritten Charting

• Totally rewritten 2D charts
• New Relationship Chart visualizing the relation between two selected persons
• New Ancestor Chart supports up to 200 Generations
• New Descendant Chart with much better alignment
• New Hourglass Chart showing Ancestors, Partners and Descendants of a specific person
• Ancestor, Descendant and Hourglass Chart can be displayed from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and bottom up
• New Fan Chart offering more generations and better text layout
• New charts editor capable of single-page or multi-page layouts
• New statistics: Place of Birth and Country of Birth
• Create print-ready PDFs or PNGs
• New user interface for charts, a person list is always displayed to the right of a chart, allowing quick selection of a person right in place
• Greatly improved performance when compiling charts. You can browse through your charts in realtime
• Support for gestures on MacBook trackpads for zooming in and out

Reports

• New User Interface for Reports similar to the new Charts user interface
• New Narrative Report
• New Marriage List Report
• Improved Person List Report which can now display groups depending on the selected sorting order
• Improved Person Report now featuring optional charts
• Improved Family Group Report now featuring optional charts
• Improved editing of Reports

New Places Management

• All places you enter in the MacFamilyTree database is now listed in a new edit pane
• Assigning coordinates to places is much easier
• Merge places directly in the edit mode
• Assigning known places to events can now be accomplished with a few clicks
• Maps in the Persons Editor allow you to quickly review where a person has lived

New To Do Management

• Create and assign To-Dos to any object in MacFamilyTree from within most edit modes
• Let MacFamilyTree 6 remind you of tasks that have yet to be done
• Set priorities and To-Do types
• Have MacFamilyTree automatically create To-Dos for missing names and events

FamilySearch Integration

• Access to FamilySearch
• Update on FamilySearch
• Direct integration into MacFamilyTree
• Notifications for updated persons or newly added information
• Automatic background matching of persons
• Certified by FamilySearch.org for access, update and sync

GEDCOM Import and Export improved

• Considerably more compatible with other genealogy applications which export non-standard GEDCOM files
• Partial GEDCOM export improved to export all connected persons from a specific person or all ancestors or descendants
• Support for ANSEL-formatted GEDCOM files
• The GEDCOM importer’s performance has been improved drastically
• Better error log when importing GEDCOMs
• Import error log can now be saved for later reference
• GEDCOMs can now be exported in UTF-8, UTF-16, Plain ASCII, Mac OS Roman or Windows Latin Charsets
• Media can be reconverted to a more compressed format when exporting GEDCOMs

LDS Support

• LDS Support for Person- and Family Events
• All current temple codes available

Media

• Fullscreen Slideshow implemented either for all media found in a tree file or for specific persons’ media.
• Narrative Report included in the Slideshow
• Using Apples Core Animation fur beautiful full screen display
• Cover-Flow like picture viewer for person, family, event and source media

Web Search

• Integrated Web Search feature to quickly search the Internet
• Direct access to FindAGrave.com, FootNote.com, Ancestry.com, WorldVitalRecords.com and Google
• Directly assign found information to a person using the contextual menu

Improved Labels

• Assign as many labels as you like to Persons, Families, Sources, Events or Media
• Labels, as well as bookmarks, can be assigned in all list views through the contextual menu (accessible by right-clicking on a row in a table)
• Much more user friendly labels palette

Performance

• MacFamilyTree 6 is now executed in 64 Bit under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on recent Mac models for improved performance
• Performance is improved throughout the whole application, especially for larger tree files
• Media Browser performance is greatly improved for larger databases

Other

• A start person can be defined. This person is used as the root person in all views when no other person is selected
• New startup window showing new tutorials and "how-to"s
• Multiselection in the person list, family list, sources list, places list and to-do list
• Drawing speed of the Virtual Tree dramatically improved
• Sorting order for names can now be specified independently from the name format used to display names
• Married Names can be entered directly in each edit view

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

PRICE

$49.00

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