Family Tree Maker comparing 16 and 2008
View as these screen shots as a FlickR slideshow (
)I double clicked the desk top icon and after a wait FTM 2008 opened the current tree in Task View
see the orange tab top left - the bottom field is empty because I never clicked on New
the lower screen is running Ancestry.com in Firefox 1.5 on Mac OS 10.4.11 showing a census image from which I might extract data and type it into a tree
when I double clicked to start FTM 16 it was about five times quicker to open and went straight into where I left off yesterday
Adding data to and moving between the fields is like using a spread sheet with complete control from the keyboard without the mouse
a similar view with one item on the to do list but if I doubl click it nothing happens 
second orange tab People which shows an ancestor tree
even on the 22 inch screen I find it hard to read with that combination of colours
it called an irritaing dialogue box well it was me that marked off Liverpool, Lancashire, England
this tab is Places
the fourth tab is Mediabut I never import images into tree programs because they make the master file too big
and are difficult to extract
fifth Tab
Sources was skipped
sixth tab is Publish but you have to double click an icon to get a descendant chart to show
and it is useless for navigation
and the right click mouse menu or a double click do nothing.
To get out there is a tiny back button top left
Publication Types
Charts and Reports
Charts - I call them trees
Genealogy Reports
Person Reports
Relationship Reports - Outline descendant tree shown above is just another dead graphic image
Place Reports
Media Reports
Source Reports
Books
I skipped the Publish Tab as an image for the blog
it links to AncestryPress and this time it crashed FTM 2008 when I double clicked on "go to existing project"
this is the Web search page
a space wasting splitscreen
above is the magic of the reports and charts of FTM 16
select any name and go to a data entry dialog by double clicking it
or click on a view icon to go to that
FTM 2008 calls an external window for linking searches - typos and all
posted by Hugh W @ 12:14 am
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