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FAMILY TREE MAKER

Hope Tillman & Walt Howe Charlestown Club October 11, 2019 What we’ll cover

• Starting with Paper • What is a Group Sheet • What is an Table • The New • Building a tree with your own information • Supplement with Ancestry research tools • Keep track of Sources Family Group Sheet

• Start with yourself • Add your • Add your • Add your and children

• Repeat at each generation going back Ahnentafel Table

• Put yourself on the top line (or whoever’s lineage you want to trace back) • Put their parents next ( on left and on right) • Two sets of • Four sets of great grandparents • Eight sets of great great grandparents • 16 sets of great great great grandparents • 32 sets of great great great great grandparents Why Standalone

•Enter your family members while maintaining privacy •Take advantage of searching online but not necessarily saving online •Can often import from online sources Why Standalone Genealogy Software

•Enter your family members while maintaining privacy •Take advantage of searching online but not necessarily saving online •Can often import from online sources Disadvantages of not working online

•Have to set up and maintain software •Have to take additional steps to find sources and record them •Have to take additional steps to share with family Preferred Standalone Tools

•Family Tree Maker •Family Tree Builder •Roots Magic •Legacy Family Tree • Family Tree Maker Basics

Family Tree Maker can be used •To Build your tree •To Research additional information available on Ancestry or Family Search or RootsWeb + •To Add information found in additional sources Start a New Tree

Begin a Search Begin a Search Searching – selecting sources Lots is New in Family Tree Maker https://www.mackiev.com/familytreemaker/chart/ftmver_comparison.html Q & A

• Charlestown Genealogy Club: https://walthowe.com/genclub/ • Walt – [email protected] • Hope – [email protected]