Of course, now that FTM has been bought by Software MacKiev, there’s no need to replace it at all, unless you’re unhappy with it. Why is this important? Because if you blithely export your tree to a GEDCOM file without scrubbing your data first, you will lose some data, and your carefully crafted Evidence Explained citations will get mangled. Few genealogy apps do, even the ones that claim to. I say, “Not so fast.” Critically, FTM does not comply fully with the GEDCOM standard. Most of them make it sound as if it’s as simple as exporting your FTM tree to a GEDCOM file and importing the GEDCOM into their application.
$99.95.After announced that they were abandoning (aka “retiring”) their venerable Family Tree Maker (FTM) desktop application in Dec 2015, many users and genealogy bloggers asked, “What do I replace FTM with?” Several genealogy desktop app retailers offered discounts and help guides on how to transfer a family tree from FTM to their software. Integrate content with iPod, iPad, iPhone. Create fully-formatted custom content that opens in word processor with source citations. Reunion 10: Create attractive charts, reports, Register or Ahnentafel reports, slide shows.
Imports from Family Tree Maker 16 and earlier PAF 2.x and later, New FamilySearch (optional full LDS support in version 5), Family Origins 4 and later, Legacy 2 and later, GEDCOMs. In version 5, create custom family history CDs and websites publish books with notes, photos, bibliography, index, cover and front matter and save reports as PDFs (with Adobe Acrobat) or to a word processor.
The Deluxe Edition adds publishing features including indexes, contents page and other front matter formatting interview and chronology reports PDF creation and source citations based on Evidence Explained! by Elizabeth Shown Mills. It also will create source citations and bibliographies. Legacy Family Tree 7.5: The Standard Edition creates charts, reports (with pictures) and websites.Import from GEDCOM files synchronize with iPhone or iPad.
Heredis for Mac (2.0) or PC: Create customized charts, indexes, reports and illustrated books you can export to your word-processing program (but not to PDF).
Mac version ($55.99) syncs with iPhone or iPad compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Use 2012 version ($31.99) with Windows XP, Vista, or 7. Sync data easily with an online tree or import from GEDCOM.
Print or export to a PDF or word-processing program. Incorporate images and generate contents page and an index.