Maker’s Mark

Family Tree Maker

<www.mackiev.com/ftm> has long been the standardbearer for desktop genealogy software programs. Indeed, our very first issue—January 2000—included an article on using Family Tree Maker 6.0. But when Ancestry.com <www.ancestry.com> announced it was discontinuing the software in 2015, some genealogists left it for dead.

But the program has experienced a renaissance since being bought by Software MacKiev. Family Tree Maker 2017 was the first to allow for syncing between it and a family tree on . And subsequent updates have incorporated even more functionality while maintaining the same features that attracted genealogists in the first place.