Family Tree Maker tour to visit Scotland and Northern Ireland

From Family Tree Maker:

The Family Tree Maker Ambassadors are heading to events in Belfast, England and Scotland to celebrate the arrival of the new Family Tree Maker 2024 edition.

INSIDER SESSIONS – WHAT TO EXPECT

You'll get an in-depth review of what's already included in Family Tree Maker and a sneak preview of what's to come in the soon-to-be-released FTM 2024. You'll also get special pricing on Family Tree Maker and related products, and plenty of time to chat and ask the Ambassadors any questions you might have.

SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS

The insider sessions will feature two speakers – Duff Wilson, Executive Director, and Mark Olsen, Family Tree Maker Ambassador. They will be showing our new Family Tree Maker 2024 edition and reviewing the current edition.

We will run each of these classes as if they were Family Tree Maker User Groups with lots of tips, tricks and Q&A with those in attendance.

Some of the topics we will discuss –

-    A quick review of the current Family Tree Maker edition.
-    Family Tree Maker is already an amazing program with many underused features.
-    Connect! A completely new workspace and new Relative Hint™ feature that make it easier than ever to share your tree and collaborate with your family.
-    Easy on the Eyes™: a revolutionary way of enlarging parts of the screen right when you need it. An answer and relief for those of us with tired old eyes.
-    Hyphenated dual surnames support following the Hispanic tradition.
-    Improved support for managing and reporting relationships.
-    Tools for cleaning up orphaned items (media, sources, and citations).
-    New improvements to Family Tree Maker Connect, and using Family Tree Maker Connect for yourself.
-    Introducing AlbumWALK® – Making your photos talk – literally.
-    Working seamlessly between Family Tree Maker and AlbumWALK.
-    Q & A.
-    Hands-on help with your copy of Family Tree Maker on your computer as time permits after each event.

Advance Tickets Required. All event tickets are FREE (paid by Family Tree Maker). You do not need to be a member of the sponsoring society – all tour events are open to the general public. Bring a friend!

FTM 2019 and FTM 2024 SPECIAL PRICES

FTM 2019 will be on sale for up to 40% off its regular price – and you will get FTM 2024 for FREE when it's released. This special offer will be available at the time of the event. We'll also have discounts on other Family Tree Maker products and related software and books.
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Look forward to seeing you!
Mark Olsen
Family Tree Maker Ambassador

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NORTHERN IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND ENGLAND TOUR

Join us at any of the stops along our tour. All events are FREE and open to the general public.

Belfast Area – Friday, September 13
Where: Linen Hall Library
Host: North of Ireland Family History Society
Date: Friday, September 13, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Dumfries – Monday, September 16
Where: The Gillbrae Auditorium, Dumfries Baptist Church Centre
Host: Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society
Date: Monday, September 16, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Carlisle – Tuesday, September 17
Where: Cumbria's Museum of Military Life
Host: Cumbria Family History Society
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

York – Wednesday, September 18
Where: Acomb Parish Church Hall
Host: York & District Family History Society
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Edinburgh Area – Thursday, September 19
Where: Lasswade High School Centre
Host: Lothian Family History Society
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Glasgow – Friday, September 20
Where: Ramshorn Theatre Auditorium
Host: The Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies
Date: Friday, September 20, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Aberdeen – Monday, September 23
Where: Fountainhall Church
Host: Aberdeen Family History Society
Date: Monday, September 23, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Unable to attend one of the sessions in person?

We will offer one online UK Zoom session for anyone who'd like to attend, ask additional questions or learn about Family Tree Maker much like we will teach via the in-person events.

Zoom Event

Wednesday, October 2nd
6:00 PM UK Time, 11:00 AM US Mountain Time

For tickets for all events visit https://www.familytreemaker.com/calendar/events.html (click on Show details at the bottom of the Northern Ireland, Scotland, and England Tour 2024  section)

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

RootsMagic 10 now on sale

I've just received an email from TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk) advising that a new version of popular family tree software programme RootsMagic 10 is now on sale. Here's the description of its new features:

What's New in RootsMagic 10?

DNA Matches - Easily track DNA matches for any person; track DNA test details; view tree relationships and DNA predicted relationships side by side; DNA Kinship lists show all relationships to a start person (both tree relationship and predicted DNA relationship).

Enhanced Searching - Advanced search and criteria group rules now include searching by family line, genetics, individual, or family; Aave (and reuse) full advanced search and criteria groups with new search rules; advanced couple list search lets you search on both husband and wife simultaneously; search on # of shared facts; search on proof for facts (and any fact).

Health History - Track unlimited health conditions (illness, disease, accidents) for each person; customizable Family Health History report shows health conditions for a person and all immediate family members; Health Conditions list shows any group of people who share the same health condition.

Updated Help System - Context sensitive help lets you press F1 to get help on whatever you are doing; help can be accessed either online or local on your computer.

Simplified Group Access - Add, edit, or delete a group directly from the Groups side panel; directly refresh any "saved rules" group directly from the Groups side panel.

New Tools - Globally add a fact to everyone in a group; copy a persons fact to one or more other people; move a persons fact to another person.

Printing and Reports - Family Health History report; DNA Kinship report; Leeds Method report for DNA clustering; Health Conditions list shows any group of people who share the same health condition; Kinship List includes option to filter which people to include (everyone, list, or group).

Ease of Use - Copy a book in Publisher; auickly hide / show the folder list on the Tasks page; more viewable and printable lists in Enhanced Properties; lists of unused records (places, citations, etc) from the Enhanced Properties now allow you to delete; enhanced capabilities when adding a shared fact; Find Everywhere now supports saving or printing results; quickly switch between color code sets from any view. 

For further details visit https://genealogysupplies.com/rootsmagic

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

Heredis to start charging for next generation mobile app

From Heredis (www.heredis.com)

Starting this September, the next version of Heredis for mobile devices will no longer be free.
    
Since 2012, Heredis has chosen to offer its users a free mobile application on iOS (and then on Android). More than 35,000 of you are using these apps on a daily basis and we thank you for that.

However, these applications require a heavy maintenance and a lot of extra work to update them so that they keep working with each new version of Heredis but also so that they remain compatible with your phones and tablets’ latest operating systems.

This is why, from September onwards, we will have to charge you for our next mobile applications.

If you have an older version already installed or if you want to download this older version, it will remain completely free. But you will need to pay for our next application, which will be compatible with the new version of Heredis. And it will be so with each new version in the future.

The new Heredis apps will be available on the Apple and Android stores for $9.99 (tax incl.). Which means that for each new version, Mac or Windows, the user of this version will also have to purchase the corresponding mobile application.

We invite you to visit our website right now and to download the mobile applications so you can keep your genealogy at hand everywhere you go!

(With thanks to Heredis via email) 

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

RootsMagic 8 is now on sale

The latest version of the popular RootsMagic family tree software programme, RootsMagic 8, is now available to buy from www.rootsmagic.com, and is styled as 'the biggest upgrade in our company history'.

From the site, these are listed as some of the new features:

Latest Technologies
RootsMagic has been rewritten to work with the latest operating systems and genealogical technologies, including native support for MacOS. This foundation ensures that we'll be able to support future technologies and amazing new features.

Simpler Navigation
The new main window lets you switch between different screens (people, sources, places, tasks, media, etc.) without losing your place. The new "Couple View" and expandable "Descendants View" give you new insights into your families.

Easier Editing
You may now have more than one person's edit screen open at a time. You can also use other software features while the edit screen is open. All of a person's information is now accessible from their edit screen. You can even view switch to the edit screen of any family member and then instantly switch back.

Searching at Your Fingertips
Lists of data now have their own search box, allowing you to quickly find matching items. Advanced searching tools have all been grouped together into one easy screen.

Save to Modern Formats
Reports and charts may be saved in newer, more compatible formats including Microsoft Word .DOCX, Microsoft Excel .XLSX, and .SVG.

New Wallcharts & Fancharts
Wallcharts have been rebuilt from the ground-up, giving beautiful new features and coloring as well as one of most-requested features- fancharts.

Reusable Source Citations
Reusable citations let you create a citation once and then attach it to multiple people or events.

Streamlined Tasks
To-do items, correspondence lists, and research logs have been brought together into streamlined "tasks". Tasks are easily attached to peope, sources, media, and more while being quickly searched and filtered.

Better Places & Mapping
The Place List is now reversible and can directly show you all the events where the place is used. People and events can be quickly edited from the Place List. The Map View shows you the location of each place and any desired group of people

A fuller, more detailed list is available at http://wiki.rootsmagic.com/wiki/RootsMagic_8:Whats_New

The programme costs US $34.95 - but you can download a trial version before you purchase. Further details, and screengrabs, are available on the site. RootsMagic also has a blog post on the new version available at http://blog.rootsmagic.com/?p=3508.

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

MyHeritage redesigns its Online Family Tree view

MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com) has made some changes to its online family tree programme:

Improvements to the Online Family Tree at MyHeritage 

We’re pleased to announce that the most popular view for family trees on MyHeritage has been improved with a new design — making it easier than ever to navigate your family tree and make new discoveries.

It’s easy to get absorbed in family history research, and spend hours on the family tree. The new tree design, which is cleaner and more modern, helps improve the overall user experience and make discovering your family history easier and more enjoyable. We have added useful new features, and some nice touches.

The improvements also include a new Relationship diagram that enables you to visualize your relationship to other people in the family tree to easily understand how you are related.

For further details visit MyHeritage's blog post at https://blog.myheritage.com/2021/08/improvements-to-the-online-family-tree-at-myheritage/.

(With thanks to Daniel Horowitz)

Chris

Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Ancestry advises users to change password if using Family Tree Maker

There has seemingly been another breach of privacy, this time by Software Mackiev (www.mackiev.com), producer of the popular Family Tree Maker software programme, with which users can sync information to their online family tree on Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk). It seems that the company has exposed to access information for some 60,000 users thanks to a misconfigured cloud server - the full story is at https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/genealogy-software-maker-exposes/ and https://www.wizcase.com/blog/mackiev-leak-research/.

In response, Ancestry has announced the following:

We have been alerted to a potential security vulnerability at the MacKiev Company, which owns Family Tree Maker software. While we no longer have formal affiliation with the company, Family Tree Maker is used by some Ancestry customers to sync family trees between Family Tree Maker software and Ancestry. Based on our investigation, we do not believe that any Ancestry systems or data have been compromised. The Ancestry-Family Tree Maker sync uses OAuth2, a widely- used authentication protocol to provide Family Tree Maker permission to access Ancestry resources without exposing user passwords.

As a best practice, we recommend Ancestry customers who have used their Ancestry credentials to access Family Tree Maker software change their password and enable two-factor authentication.

(Source: https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2020/07/22/ancestry-security-team-confident-family-tree-maker-vulnerability-has-not-impacted-ancestrys-systems/)

This looks like it could become one of those weeks...

Chris

My next 5 week Scottish Research Online course starts August 31st - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, also available are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.