Return of Family Tree Maker

Ancestry.com made the following exciting announcement on their blog:

New Family Tree Maker Options
Posted by Kendall Hulet on February 2, 2016 in Family Tree Maker

Since our Family Tree Maker announcement last December, we have continued to actively explore ways to develop and support Family Tree Maker and ensure you have choices to preserve your work in ways that matter to you.

Today, I am pleased to announce two options for desktop software that will work with Ancestry.

Software MacKiev

Software MacKiev, with whom we have a long-standing relationship, is acquiring the Family Tree Maker software line as publisher for both Mac and Windows versions. Software MacKiev has been the developer of Family Tree Maker for Mac for more than six years and is thrilled at the opportunity to publish future versions of Family Tree Maker for Mac and Windows.

This new agreement means you will receive software updates and new versions from Software MacKiev, and have the ability to purchase new versions of Family Tree Maker from Software MacKiev as they are released. You will have continued access to Ancestry Hints, Ancestry searches, and be able to save your tree on Ancestry with Family Tree Maker moving forward.

RootsMagic

We have made an agreement with RootsMagic, a leading genealogy desktop software program publisher, to connect Ancestry with the RootsMagic software by the end of 2016. With this new relationship, RootsMagic can serve as your desktop family tree software, while having access to Ancestry hints, Ancestry searches, and the ability to save your tree on Ancestry.

These new agreements will make it possible to preserve your work on Ancestry and Family Tree Maker, and enable future features and benefits to help you discover your family history. Be assured that Ancestry, in cooperation with Software MacKiev and RootsMagic, will continue to support you as you discover your family history.

We ask for your patience as we work diligently through all the details to make these solutions available. Be sure to check back here on our blog as we share more information about Family Tree Maker in the next few months.

For more information on Software MacKiev and RootsMagic, click below:

    Software MacKiev: http://www.mackiev.com/
    RootsMagic: http://www.rootsmagic.com/

To read more about how RootsMagic plans to handle the migration of Family Tree Maker and the upgrade to search and sync with Ancestry, visit their blog post RootsMagic and Ancestry: Working Together at Last.  To get more information about the transition of Family Tree Maker to MacKiev, visit their FTM webpage at http://mackiev.com/ftm/index.html.

I imagine there are thousands of Family Tree Maker and RootsMagic users who feel like this right now:

MyHeritage SIG and Discount for RM Users

MyHeritage is offering a special discount on its annual membership price to RootsMagic users. The regular price is $119.40 per year but RootsMagic users can get it for just $79.99. But this special offer ends June 10. To take advantage of this offer, click the link for June 2015 RootsMagic News archive.


This discount comes at a good time for PCGS members! We are beginning a members only MyHeritage Special Interest Group (SIG)! The first meeting for this brand new SIG is Saturday, August 1, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the University Medical Center, Room 2500C. The SIG is open to all PCGS members, whether or not you use RootsMagic. If you are a current user of MyHeritage, or wondering if MyHeritage is right for you, come to the SIG meeting to learn and share your knowledge.

RootsMagic SIG 10-noon Jan 3, 2014

Join us for the RootsMagic Special Interest Group, Saturday Jan 3.  We will be meeting in Dining Room D off the Cafeteria at the University of Arizona Medical Center.  We will learn to export a gedcom, import a gedcom, and compare two databases in this session.

Roots Magic User Group to meet this Saturday

Roots Magic will meet this Saturday November 2nd from 1 to 3 in Dining Room 2500C at UMC on Campbell.

Roots Magic Group to meet on June 1

Roots Magic Support Group will meet on Saturday, June 1, from 1 to 3 pm in Dining Room 2500D off the UMC Cafeteria.

 

Please let Barbara Slayer at  bsalyer@mindspring.com know if you are coming and what you might like to discuss. 

 

If any of you have learned something new, bring that info with you. If you would like to share how you document information, bring your thumbdrive with you with your database on it by Roots Magic To Go. It might be helpful to see how someone else documents since we all do it differently.

Roots Magic Support Group Saturday, Feb 2, 1-3

There will be a Roots Magic Support Group meeting on Saturday, February 2 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the University Medical Center. The meeting will be held in Room 2500D - a dining room in the Cafeteria along the south side of the dining room.

 

Come with your questions and ideas. 

Roots Magic's SIG this Saturday

There will be a Roots Magic Support Group this Saturday, September 1 in Room 2117 at the U of A College of Medicine. I know it is holiday on Monday, but we have missed a couple of months, so I am going for this one.

 

We will probably be having one or two guests or beginners at this meeting. You are welcome to bring a guest if you know of something interested in genealogy software.

 

Bring any questions or problems you are having for discussion. We will also be going over another chapter in the Manual.

 

RootsMagic Group Meeting this Saturday

The Roots Magic group will be meeting this Saturday.  Topics for this meeting are the new form that has been introduced with the latest update, review of pages 11-38 in the RootsMagic book-main screen with different views, the side bar, toolbars and menus and if time permits - using databases.  Barbara Salyer will be your group leader.  We look forward to seeing you there.  Don't forget to visit RootsMagic blog for the latest inforamton for the software.

WhenSat, April 7, 1pm – 3pm

Where1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ 85724 Room 2117 University Medical Center (UMC ) (map)

New Webinars from RootsMagic

RootsMagic announced today three new user webinars.  They are:

Research Tools in RootsMagic

Getting Help Using RootsMagic

Running RootsMagic on your Mac
 
For additional information and to register go to  http://www.rootsmagic.com/webinars/