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Family Tree Heritage 9 (Upgrade)

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NOTE: This is an UPGRADE VERSION of the software. To buy this upgrade, you MUST own a previous version of the software.

What's New in This Version?

Version 9

New Features to Discover, Organize, Preserve, and Share Your Family's Story!

New Features!
Exciting new features to help you easily research your ancestors and share your family story.

New! Interactive Research Timeline
Uncover new information about your ancestors.

The research timeline helps you uncover clues that will assist you in researching your family history by uncovering events in an ancestor's lifetime. These events may have affected your ancestors, such as a war or immigration issue, and they can point you to additional resources to help you learn more about your ancestors. There are several pre-designed event groups to choose from. You may also add your own events. The Timeline view is interactive: click on names, dates, places to see how it responds. A Timeline report is available for printing.

New! Tags
Tag ancestor similarities–up to 3 tags per person.

You can create your own set of Tags and assign up to three Tags to the various individuals in your database. This is a popular and useful new feature among genealogists. The tags display on various screens and reports in Family Tree Heritage.

New! Color Coding
Easily identify individuals and family lines.

This four color filing system has gained popularity among genealogists over the past few years. This feature allows you to add background colors to the name boxes for individuals and/or family lines. The color coding will display on various screens and reports, allowing you to easily track individuals from both the maternal and paternal sides of your mother and father’s ancestors.

New! Four-Color Fan Charts
Enhanced Fan Chart

With color coding, you can now generate a Four-Color Fan Chart and include siblings in the first generation of the chart.


NEW!Interactive Research Timeline helps you uncover new information about your ancestors.


NEW! Tags - Assign tags to your ancestors to mark similarities, such as country of origin or medical conditions. You can assign up to 3 tags per person.


NEW! Color Coding helps you to easily identify individuals and family lines.


NEW! Four-Color Fan Charts including siblings of the first generation.

Version 8

New Features to Discover, Organize, Preserve, and Share Your Family's Story!

New! Search Billions of Records FREE! No Subscription Required!
The updated FamilySearch database gives you 1-click access to billions of worldwide records. This fast and seamless search brings ancestor records and information right to your desktop - fast and free!

New! 1-Click Quick & Easy - Find Your Ancestors!
Family Tree Heritage makes searching for ancestors and creating your tree easy. Just highlight an ancestor and click on the Tree Icon! Search billions of records in the FamilySearch database and locate information about your ancestors.

New! FamilySearch Certified!
Get all the benefits from the leading genealogy database, FamilySearch.org.

New! Modern Interface with 17 Skins to Choose From!
Updated with a new interface, you can choose from 17 choices of skins to research and create your family tree.

New! Available in Spanish & French!
Choose to work in Spanish or French from the easy drop-down menu in Family Tree Heritage.

New! Share on Flash or Thumb Drive!
This new feature makes it easy to share your research on-the-go!

New! Pedigree & Drop Line Charts!
Create colorful heirloom-quality charts that will be cherished by your family members now and in future years.

New! Features
  • Updated FamilySearch Database
  • 1-Click Search to Billions of Records
  • Modern Interface with 17 Skins
  • Available in Spanish & French
  • Input in Any Language
  • Share on Flash or Thumb Drive

NEW! Search billions of records to add new ancestry records to your tree. Quickly discover your heritage!


NEW! 1-Click! Quick & Easy to Find your Ancestors!


NEW! Family Tree Heritage is Family Search Certified


NEW! Modern Interface with 17 Skins to Choose From!


NEW! Pedigree and Drop Line Charts!

Version 7

New Features to Discover, Organize, and Preserve Your Family History!

New! Search Over 1 Billion Records FREE!
Access the leading FREE resources online for discovering your family history, over 1 billion records. Also, integrate directly with your Ancestry.com and other accounts for faster searching and access to 5 billion records online.

New! Import from Other Genealogy Software
Compare your records against other database records and automatically identify the differences. You can import just the changes. Safely & reliably import valuable data, even scrapbook items, from other applications:
  • Family Tree Maker
  • Ancestry Family Tree
  • Generations
  • Personal Ancestral File
  • Family Trees Quick & Easy
  • Legends
  • Family Tree
  • RootsMagic
  • Legacy Family Tree
New! Create Family Books & Web Sites
Publish a Family Book that documents your family story-in multiple languages! Automatically create a web page, complete with photos, audio, and video clips that preserves your family heritage.

New! Preserve Documents, Photos & Videos
Preserve family treasures and display memorable family photos, birth certificates, marriage licenses, and other documents with the built-in scrapbook. And now, all scrapbook items can be stored on the Internet.

New! Handle Complex Family Structures
Now you can keep track of even the most complex family structures with the latest tools of informatics like Dropline Descendents Charts, Marital and Parental status flags, and special confidentiality settings. Mark children, parents, spouses or spousal relationships as confidential. Block them from showing on reports or being exported.

New! Individual Summary Screen
View all the information on an individual on one screen: events, notes, sources, pictures, parents, siblings, spouses, children, to do items, etc.

New! Record DNA Test Results
Take advantage of recent genetic research to make your genealogical projects more comprehensive and accurate. Whether your goal is to verify recent relationships or to discover more about your ancestral origins, genetic information adds depth to your family tree.

Enhanced Interface & Genealogy Tools

  • Convert case from UPPER to Mixed
  • Convert US/Canada, State/Province abbreviations to full name and back
  • Enhanced Show Ordinances for each child within the Family View
  • Dropline Descendancy Chart report
  • More expansive Calendar Report
  • Family Group Record now has options to:
    • Prevent a child's information from breaking between pages
    • Print a number of blank information boxes for children
  • All new InfoCenter makes viewing and comparing individuals easier than ever
  • Improved Individual Merge
  • Scrapbook items can be stored on the Internet as well as on your local machine
  • Custom IDs can now handle Henry and Dollarhide conventions
  • Printable Change Log
  • Back and Forward buttons take you to previous views easily and quickly.
  • Customize Sentences for Book Reports and
    Web Pages
  • Additional Couples Relationship types:
    • Common Law
    • De Facto
  • Additional Parent/Child Relationship types:
    • Step
    • Foster

Search several major genealogy web sites directly from one location.


Faster searches through
many leading genealogy sites.


Publish a Family Book that
documents your family story.


Quickly turn your project into a web site or family history slideshow on DVD.


Create elegant tree diagrams that
represent your entire family.


Incorporate DNA information to
ensure genealogical accuracy.

Version 4

New Features to Discover, Organize, and Preserve Your Family History!

New! Publish Family Books
Document and preserve your family story. Create a family book as a keepsake for future generations. Include trees, charts, and reports. Heritage Family Tree automatically creates a Title Page, Table of Contents, and Index.

New! Free 30-Day Trial Subscription*
Sign-up for a free 30-day trial subscription to the Family Tree Legends Records Collection, a leading Internet provider of genealogy data. Within minutes you'll have access to some of the best online sources for discovering your ancestors.

New! World Place Finder™
Need to know a county name or unsure about the spelling of your cousin's birthplace? Just look it up using Progeny Software's World Place Finder that uses a gazetteer of over 3.3 million towns and cities from around the world, plus US churches and cemeteries. And with Progeny's built-in link to MapQuest® you can instantly find your ancestor's hometown on a map!

New! Detailed File History Log
Keep a detailed log of changes to a file. Extremely valuable if you are collaborating with other researchers on a file.


Free 30-day trial subscription


Research towns and cities


Quality trees, charts, reports, and now, books

Version 3

The Highest Rated Genealogy Software*

Research & Discover Your Family History
Search Over 2 Billion Records & 1,000's of Databases** Scan thousands of databases and over 2 billion records through research sites such as Ancestry.com, MyTrees.com, and FamilySearch.com - all starting from a single location.

WebCollaboration -- Collaborate on your research with other family members. Real-time, Internet technology brings families together to share research and to help them search more effectively for ancestors.

Organize & Preserve Your Heritage
Multiple Views Display Relationships -- Easily visualize relationships between parents, grandparents, children, siblings, and spouses. Intelligent programming handles even complex family relationships and non-traditional information.

Electronic Scrapbook Preserves Family Treasures -- Assemble an electronic scrapbook for any individual in your database. Store and display almost any type of information - including sound, video, and text files - along with a wide variety of graphic formats. Even create a slide show!

Research Manager Organizes Tasks - Stay organized by creating and tracking a list of research to-dos. Enter, prioritize, and view a list of facts that need to be researched.

SourceCitationEngine Tracks Your Sources The leading sourcing and citation recording system helps you track all of your important sources more efficiently.

Create Professional-Quality Trees, Charts, and Reports
Beautiful Trees and Reports -- Showcase your family history in a variety of heirloom-quality trees, charts, and reports, with just a simple click of the mouse. Choose from a huge assortment of formats to illustrate your family history including Ancestor and Descendant trees and Wall charts, Hourglass and Fan charts, Ahnentafel, Family Group reports, and more!

Customize Your Designs -- Powerful personalization features allow you to present your family history in your own unique style. Add photos and customize colors, fonts, boxes, shadows, and borders on your trees, charts, and reports.

Create Family Web Pages -- Share your research, trees, charts, and reports with the entire world. Powerful Web-creation tools instantly create vibrant, professional-looking Web pages you can easily add to your personal Web site.

Export to PDF -- Easily preserve and share your colorful, heirloom-quality trees, charts, and reports exactly as you intended. Export trees, books, and reports to a PDF format (Portable Document Format). Then send PDF files to family and friends via e-mail, save them to a disk or CD, or have them professionally printed for your next reunion.

*Family Tree Magazine, February 2003.
** Records may require memberships to genealogy Web sites. Free trial subscriptions are included.

Research your family history


Easily visualize relationships


Quality trees, charts, and reports