Overview of Family Tree Maker for macOS

For thirty years, Family Tree Maker has been the world's favorite genealogy software making it easier to discover your family story, preserve your legacy, and share your unique heritage. If you're new to family history, you'll appreciate how this intuitive program lets you quickly grow your family tree with simple navigation, tree-building tools, and integrated Web searching. If you're already an expert, you can dive into the more advanced features, options for managing data, and a wide variety of charts and reports. The result is a family history that you and your family will treasure for years.

Features of Family Tree Maker for macOS

Quickly and easily build your family tree

Hints from Ancestry and FamilySearch

View family history timelines and interactive maps

Prosperous Color Coding: One of the most frequent requests from genealogists using FTM 2017's color coding was for "rich" color coding - not just

Coding the home person's ancestors and each ancestor's descendants as well. With FTM 2019, prosperous color coding is just one click away.

Charts & Reports

Put your ancestors on the map: Access interactive street and satellite maps to view important locations in your ancestors' lives and track your family's migration paths.

Elegantly simple editing tools: Powerful but easy-to-use tools that, in just a few clicks, can take an old photo faded beyond recognition and restore it to look like the day it was printed.

Organize media easily: Illustrate your family story with photos, historical records, and audio and video files. The easy-to-use tools in Family Tree Maker help you manage media faster than ever, add photos directly from iPhoto, scan images directly into your tree, and even create slideshows.

Store photos: Store photos and more right inside Family Tree Maker.

Companion Guide: This guide offers a step-by-step tour of the program and all you can accomplish with it. You can use the free digital PDF guide with the product or order a 325-page full-color printed guide from our Gift Collection here.

Everything you need to begin your journey through your family's history

A variety of charts and dozens of reports

Themed backgrounds, borders, and embellishments collection for printing

Locations database with more than 3 million place names for consistent data entry

Access to online street and satellite maps

The digital version of the Companion Guide

Convenient onscreen Help system

Technical Details and System Requirements

OS X 10.10 or later

MacOS Ventura 13.0

Hard Space: 900 MB hard disk space

RAM: 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended)

1280 x 800 screen resolution