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Family Tree Maker
2012 for PC
Family Tree Maker
For Mac
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Published 24 June 2010
Free Tutorials for Family Tree Maker
By: Rick Roberts, Biography & Archived Articles
 Rick Roberts |
Global Gazette reader "David" emailed a series of questions recently, asking how to find and use several features in Family Tree Maker 2010. David is a long-time and capable user of Family Tree Maker. His questions arose becasue he recently upgraded to the latest edition of Family Tree Maker from a much earlier one that he bought before Family Tree Maker redesigned the software into a much more powerful tool.
I answered all of David's questions to the best of my ability. However, his questions and others like his lead me to share with our readers that there are some excellent tutorials built into FTM 2010. The following is the final few lines of my email to David:
There are some excellent tools within Family Tree Maker 2010 that will help you learn how to use many of the regular and more powerful features in the program. Spending some time on them will help you understand the program and probably reduce stress.
The first is to click on HELP, then click on TRAINING TUTORIALS. This is an on-screen overview of how the software works. Well worthwhile to watch.
After you've done that, click on HELP again, then click on HELP FOR FAMILY TREE MAKER. A dialogue box will appear on your screen. On the left hand side of the dialogue box is a list of links with purple book icons beside them. They are:
- Getting Started
- Plan
- People
- Places
- Media
- Sources
- Publish
- Web Search
You can skip "Getting Started" because it deals with installation and you have already done that. When you click on the next one (PLAN), a series of links appear on the right hand-side of the dialogue box. Click on the first one of those links, and read the material, then the second, and so on.
It will probably take you an hour or more to go through the whole list. It is an hour well invested.
FTM 2010 has many icons that at first glance appear to be decorations. Behind those icons are powerful tools. Going through these tutorials will help you understand the logic that the developers used in the design of FTM 2010, and you will quickly become accustomed to what is behind those icons and how to use them.
When I give an all day workshop on Family Tree Maker, I follow the format that is used in the tutorial described above. The nice thing about the FTM 2010 built-in tutorial is that you can go back and check out a function, or the whole tutorial, anytime that you want.
Hope all this helps more than it confuses.
More information on Family Tree Maker
Review of FTM 2010
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