Whether you're new to family history or a seasoned genealogist, Family Tree Maker™ 2008 makes it easy to discover, preserve and share your family history.

• Build a family tree starting with names, dates and events
• Attach photos, documents and audio and video files
• Quickly merge new facts and records from the web into your tree
• Use interactive maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family

• A new interface that combines elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet, making it much easier to enter, view and edit your data
• Vastly improved integration with Ancestry.co.uk
• A web clipper that lets you merge data from anywhere on the web into your tree
• Standardised criteria for rating your sources
• Features that make it easy to manage photos and other media files and incorporate them into charts and reports
• A place authority with more than 3 million place names that helps you correctly enter locations
• Dynamic lists that show you all the people and events associated with a particular place
• Timelines that highlight personal, family and world events that occurred during your ancestors' lives
• A robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist and Legacy Family Tree

• Quickly compare information you find on Ancestry with the data in your tree and use a merge wizard to selectively import new facts and records
• Take advantage of Ancestry Hints-a contextual search feature that automatically suggests records pertaining to people in your tree
• Back up your Family Tree Maker data by automatically creating a member tree on Ancestry (you can choose to share your tree with others or keep it private)