Broderbund Announces Latest Version of the #1-Selling Genealogy Program: Family Tree Maker Deluxe 20-CD Set

New Version Includes Five-Star Prioritized Name Search and U.S. and World Mapping Features

October 18, 1999 (FREMONT, CALIFORNIA) — The new version of Family Tree Maker 7.0 is now available for Windows for an estimated street price of $80. The 20-CD set, valued at over $500, is currently the largest collection of genealogy-related CD-ROMs in a single retail product and includes some of the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use research tools. With all CDs in the retail package relating to genealogy data, Family Tree Maker guarantees users success in tracing their ancestors. The 20-CD set includes:

• FamilyFinder Index of 220 million names -- 3 CDs
• Social Security Death Index -- 2 CDs
• European Origins: World Family Tree -- 1 CD
• Boston Passenger Lists -- 1 CD
• Birth Records: U.S./Europe (900-1880) -- 1 CD
• Military Records: U.S. (1784-1811) -- 1 CD
• U.S and International Marriage Records Index (1560s-1900s) -- 1 CD
• Local & Family Histories: New England -- 1 CD
• Southern Biographies and Genealogies -- 1 CD
• Family Histories Mid-Atlantic Genealogies -- 1 CD
• Land Records -- 1 CD
• World Family Tree Volumes 1-5 -- 5 CDs
• Subscription to GenealogyLibrary.com, a web site with access to rare books and government records from your home computer -- 1CD

Get Started Quickly on Your Family Research

Immediately after installing Family Tree Maker 7.0, a multimedia tour provides a quick overview of some of the program's resources, then a data entry wizard guides you through entering the first few family names, dates and locations into your family file. Once this information is entered, Family Tree Maker automatically runs a FamilyFinder Search, giving you instant feedback on where to find more information on the family members that you entered. When you conduct a FamilyFinder Search, Family Tree Maker will analyze the information in your file and compare all the names you have against a database of hundreds of data CDs and Internet resources to see where more information can be found on your family. You can then view the FamilyFinder Report, which lists the results of your search in an easy-to-read format and prioritizes the matches. A five-star match indicates that the individual listed is virtually certain to be an exact match of your family member. This prioritized matching feature saves you valuable time in conducting your family search by allowing you to focus more on probable matches and less on false leads. Family Tree Maker is the only product on the market with integrated searching built right into the program.

Powerful Research Tools in the FamilyFinder Center

The new FamilyFinder Center in Family Tree Maker 7.0 acts as the "home base" for your research and allows you access to all of Family Tree Maker's powerful research features through an easy-to-read screen in order to quickly find the best option to help you conduct your family research.

FamilyFinder Center resources include the FamilyFinder Search; online resources; a Genealogy How-to Guide, which provides tips to tracing your ancestors in the U.S. and abroad, as well as contact information for international, ethnic and other special interest resources; and a Genealogy SiteFinder which leads you to Internet sites that might have information suited to your personal family search needs.

Put Your Family History on the Map With This Exciting New Printout Capability

With Family Tree Maker's new Mapping feature, you can easily show where important events took place and where different family groups settled. Family Tree Maker's fully integrated map feature allows you to plot the birth, marriage, death, or any event for which you've entered a location. First choose the events for the individuals you'd like plotted, then choose your map (U.S., North America, Western Europe or World). Family Tree Maker will display your event map, complete with a legend that includes name, event and location of each fact that appears on the map. These impressive displays of key life events are great for family books. Like all displays in Family Tree Maker, maps are highly customizable. You can choose from maps with topographical detail or maps with current political boundaries. All maps are zoomable and scalable, to allow for focusing in on specific areas or countries.

TWAIN Support to Make Scanning Family Photos and Documents Easier

Family Tree Maker 7.0 makes preserving your family photos and documents easier than ever. TWAIN support lets you quickly scan photos and other images directly into your family scrapbook, without having to go through your scanner or digital camera's interface.

Fit 50 Percent More Ancestors on a Page with Fit-to-Page Ancestor Tree

Family Tree Maker is known for its heirloom-quality output and thus offers numerous options for formatting family trees. You can include photos; change box styles and color to do things like signify gender or generation with different colors for each; adjust text font, styles and sizes; and much more. Family Tree Maker's automated tree formatting enables you to quickly try different styles to determine your perfect layout -- no manual manipulation of boxes, lines, or photos is needed. And now you can add even more generations to your ancestor tree with Fit-to-Page Ancestor Tree. It saves you space, paper and printing time by allowing six generations (formerly four generations in the previous version) to fit on one page. The completely automated Fit-to-Page Ancestor Tree feature does away with time spent on adjusting fonts and other formatting options to try to get your tree to fit onto a page.

Favorite Family Tree Maker Features Still Included

As the top-selling genealogy program on the market, Family Tree still includes favorite features introduced in previous versions such as:

• Family Book capability with your choice of trees, reports, stories and automatic indexing
  
  
• Automatically create your own, free family web page with books and reports to help your relatives locate you and collaborate on research (no HTML knowledge required)
  
  
• Multiple report capabilities including kinship, custom, medical, and more

• Multiple tree formats including ancestor, descendant, hourglass, fan, standard, and Family Tree Maker's patented all-in-one tree

Availability and System Requirements

Family Tree Maker Deluxe 20-CD set version 7.0 is available immediately for an estimated street price of $80 (a similar 12-CD set including Family Tree Maker 7.0 but with fewer data CDs is available for $45). Family Tree Maker is available through www.familytreemaker.com, in retail stores worldwide, or by calling 800-548-1806. Family Tree Maker 7.0 requires a CD-ROM Drive; Microsoft Windows 95 or higher; Pentium 90 (Pentium 166 recommended); 16 MB RAM (32 MB RAM recommended); VGA display running in at least 256 colors; mouse; and 95 MB free hard disk space (50 MB free HD space after install). Optional: Modem (for connecting to Family Tree Maker Online); Video capture board and sound board (for video or audio clips); Scanner (for digitizing graphic images). As with all Windows programs, a faster processor, more RAM and more free disk space will enhance performance.

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