Copyright: Family Tree Maker Version 8.0 for Windows© 95/98
Citation: Family Tree Maker Version 8.0 for Windows© 95/98


README Contents Overview

Check out the information and text links below to find out what’s new, and what’s changed, in Family Tree Maker Version 8.0.

Note:  To print any pages for future reference: from the File menu, select Print Topic.

 What's new in Family Tree Maker 8.0? — Check out this quick overview of what has been added since version 7.5.

 Changes to the previous version of Family Tree Maker — Find information about features that have changed since the last release of Family Tree Maker.

 Family Tree Maker on the Internet — Get the latest news about Family Tree Maker on the Internet.  Plus, tips on how to install your browser.

 Technical and Advanced User Tips —Get helpful technical tips and information about printers/drivers and merging duplicate sources.

 Font support in Genealogy Reports, Books, and Captions in Trees — If you have non-True Type fonts installed on your computer, click here for more information.

 Electronic Registration — If you chose not to register electronically during installation but have changed your mind, you may register electronically now.

 Installing the program — You will need 100MB of free space on your hard drive prior to installing the program.  Family Tree Maker will copy approximately 50MB to your drive and the balance (maps, Click Art) will remain on the CD for later access.  It is recommended that you have at least 50MB of free space after installation for best performance

 Saving your information — Family Tree Maker for Windows does not have a Save command, but a Backup command instead.  This is because Family Tree Maker is a database program that saves your information regularly while you are using the program, as well as when you exit.  We recommend that you periodically use the Backup command to ensure the safety of your data, perhaps to a floppy diskette.  Even if you don't use the backup command, Family Tree Maker automatically makes a backup of your Family File when you exit the program.  This backup is placed on your hard disk and has the extension .FBK.  For more information, see the topic "Saving Family Files" in Family Tree Maker's in-program Help system.

 Exiting the program — It is extremely important that you first exit Family Tree Maker and then exit Windows© before turning off your computer.  If you fail to do this, your Family File may not be closed properly, a backup file will not be made, and in some cases, the data in your Family File can be damaged.  If Family Tree Maker cannot reopen your Family File, you will need to use your most recent backup.

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What's New in Family Tree Maker?
What's New in Family Tree Maker 8.0?

The Publishing Center — The Publishing Center in Family Tree Maker contains interactive “links” that allow you create, edit and update a secure and professional-looking Family Home Page or an heirloom-quality Family Book.  The Publishing Center links also make it easy and fast to add trees, reports, books, and pictures to your Home Page so you can share them with family and friends alike.

Find and Replace — From the Family Page view, you can search your Family Files, pages, notes, and books for a particular name or location.  Then, with the click of a mouse, replace any single instance — or all instances — with the text of your choice.  Making corrections is now easier than ever.

FamilyFinder Tips — From the Toolbar, or from the Genealogy “How To” Guide, FamilyFinder Tips offers this helpful collection of hints and Internet links to keep your research moving smoothly.  Use the searchable Index to locate the state, country, or date range you’re researching for additional ideas and suggestions on how to proceed.

Family Group Sheets — New report formatting options allow you to select from a wider variety of templates providing even more ways for you to share information on your Family Group Sheet.


Changes to the previous version of Family Tree Maker

The FamilyFinder Center

Virtual Cemetery — This new link in the FamilyFinder Center takes you to a Web site where you can search and view the images of actual tombstones submitted by other users of Family Tree Maker the world over.

The View Menu

Publishing Center — Much like the FamilyFinder Center in appearance, the new Publishing Center contains links to step-by-step Wizards that help you create, edit, and publish heirloom-quality Family Books, trees, and reports.  Other interactive “links” make it a breeze to create a secure, professional looking Home Page, then share your trees, reports, pictures, and more with other family members and friends.

The Help Menu

FamilyFinder Tips — Accessible from the Toolbar, or from the Genealogy “How-To” Guide, FamilyFinder Tips provide a helpful collection of hints and Internet links to keep your research moving smoothly.  Use the searchable Index to locate the state, country, or date range you’re researching for additional ideas and suggestions on how to proceed.

The Edit Menu

Find and Replace — This new feature allows you to search for specific text and replace it throughout your Family File.


Family Tree Maker on the Internet

Technical Support on the Internet

Family Tree Maker provides a wealth of technical support information online.  If you need answers to a technical issue and can’t seem to find it in the Getting Started Manual or in the Family Tree Maker on-screen Help, give this important Internet resource a try.

From the Internet menu, select Technical Support.  Family Tree Maker will automatically use your browser and Internet connection to navigate to our Online Technical Support page.  From there you can search by topic, by version of Family Tree Maker, or by keywords.

Note:  The Technical Support Knowledge Base is an ever-growing compilation of tips, FAQs (frequently asked questions), and how-to instructions covering a wide range of Family Tree Maker topics.  Be sure to take advantage of this powerful resource.  Just use your browser to navigate to:

www.familytreemaker.com/support.html.

Installing or updating your Browser

If you purchase or update your Web browser software after you have installed Family Tree Maker, use these steps to connect your Web browser to Family Tree Maker Online.

Important!:  Do not create more than one online account at any time.  If you are having trouble verifying your account or viewing a free CD online, please point your Web browser to www.familytreemaker.com/support.html for assistance.

When visiting the Family Tree Maker Web site, always use the Online button or from the Internet menu in Family Tree Maker, select Go Online.  This will ensure that you have full access to all of the most recent features, such as free CD broadcasts.

Note: Family Tree Maker doesn't have a preference for any particular Internet Service Provider.  All the program looks for, and works with, is your World Wide Web browser.

To install or update web browser software:

1. From the Internet menu, select Browser Setup (ALT, I, W).

2. Click Continue to search your computer for compatible Web browsers.

Family Tree Maker displays a list of available Web browsers.

3. If your browser is not highlighted in the window, click the button next to the name shown to display a list of available browsers.

4. Highlight your browser, and then click Continue.

Family Tree Maker displays a confirmation message saying that the browser has been successfully installed.

5. Click OK to return to Family Tree Maker.

Note: If your browser isn't listed, you can still set it up manually. You’ll find step-by-step setup instructions for all compatible Web browsers on Family Tree Maker’s Technical Support Web site at www.familytreemaker.com/support.html.


Font Support

You can display and print Genealogy reports (NGS, Register, and Ahnentafel), Text Items in Books, and Captions in Trees using only True Type fonts.  If you have non-True Type fonts installed on your computer, you can use them in other Family Tree Maker views, but they will not be available in the Genealogy Report view nor in Text Items in the Books view.  When you are looking at the font list in the Text, Font, Style, and Size dialog, you can identify the True Type fonts by the "(TT)" to the right of the font name.


Technical and Advanced User Tips

This page contains tips and advice on:

•	Printers and Drivers

•	Merging Duplicate Sources

About Printers and Drivers

Make sure you have a printer driver installed in Windows — Family Tree Maker needs to know what your printer is capable of doing before it can create printouts.  If you haven't printed from any Windows programs yet, it's possible that a driver hasn't been installed.  You can check this by selecting Printers from the Settings item on the Start menu.  Refer to your Microsoft Windows User's Guide for information about installing printer drivers.

Using the latest printer drivers — If you notice any problems when trying to access Print Setup or any of the features of the Print Setup dialog box please contact your printer manufacturer for information about updated drivers.

Using a plotter — A plotter can be used to output your extra-large trees in Family Tree Maker.  For more information, see “Printing an Extra-Large Tree on a Large Piece of Paper” in Chapter 10 of the Family Tree Maker 7.0 Manual.

HP Deskjet Series printers — The printer drivers that come with these printers may generate "Out of Memory" or "Out of Resources" messages.  These messages (and other similar behavior) can occur while generating a large tree or report.  Hewlett Packard is currently working on new drivers for these printers.  Contact Hewlett Packard directly for more advice and information at 208-323-2551, or visit www.hp.com.

HP printers with "banner" printing capabilities (Currently the HP 670C, 680C, 690C, and the 720C support banner capabilities.) — Banner printing is different than printing continuous forms.  Certain printers have "banner" capabilities that allow printing across the page with no margins. Other printers will always leave a margin. Refer to the manual that came with your printer to find out whether it supports banner printing.  Follow these steps to print a banner-style tree with no margins.

Note:	If the page orientation is set to portrait, or if you are printing an outline tree, the margins will "print" even if you set the top and bottom margins to zero.  However, these steps will allow you to print an ancestor tree in portrait mode without margins.

1.	Close Family Tree Maker and select Settings and then Printers from the Windows 95 Start menu.

2.	Right-click the icon for the HP banner printer you are using and select Properties from the menu to open the Printer Properties dialog box.

3.	Click the Paper tab and select Banner.

4.	Click OK to accept the change and close the dialog box.

5.	Start Family Tree Maker and from the File menu select Print Setup.

6.	Confirm that the Paper Source setting is In Tray and that the Orientation is Landscape.

7.	Select the Print continuous forms check box.

8.	Click OK to accept these settings.

Epson printers with "banner" printing capabilities — (Currently the Epson 400, 500, 1520 and 3000 printers support banner capabilities.)  Banner printing is different than printing continuous forms.  Certain printers have "banner" capabilities that allow printing across the page with no margins. Other printers will always leave a margin. Refer to the manual that came with your printer to find out whether it supports banner printing.

Follow these steps to print a banner-style tree with no margins.

1.	Close Family Tree Maker and select Settings and then Printers from the Windows 95 Start menu.

2.	Right-click the icon for the Epson banner printer you are using and select Properties from the menu to open the Printer Properties dialog box.

3.	Click the Paper tab and select Plain as the paper type and User defined for the size.

4.	Set the User defined width to 8.5" and the height to less than 44". Note that if the tree is formatted to Center Across Page and you enter 44" as the height, the printer will print 4 pages and center your tree across 4 pages even if it is only a two-page tree.  Therefore, you may want to turn off Center Tree Across Page to get the best results from your banner printing.

5.	Under Printable area select Maximum.

6.	Click OK to accept the change and close the dialog box.

7.	Start Family Tree Maker and from the File menu select Print Setup.

8.	Confirm that the Orientation is Landscape and that Print continuous forms is checked.

9.	Click OK to accept these settings.

Hewlett Packard LaserJet printers — Hewlett Packard LaserJet printers prior to the LaserJet 4 series will sometimes drop a character between pages on a multiple page printout.  This is because the printers have an "unprintable region" at the edge of the page in which it is physically impossible to print.  You can get around this problem by selecting "Overlap Printing" from the Print Setup dialog box in Family Tree Maker.

Hewlett Packard DeskJet printers — If you are using a version of the Hewlett Packard DeskJet printer driver that is previous to version 5.0, you might experience one or more of the following problems:

 Dark colors such as dark green may look almost black with color printers.

 Some lines and boxes may not print at all with black and white printers.

 Some images may print twice.

 You may have trouble with batch printing.

If you experience any of these problems, you need to install the latest version of your DeskJet's printer driver.  You can either obtain the printer driver from Hewlett Packard's forum on CompuServe or contact Hewlett-Packard directly at 208-323-2551, or visit www.hp.com.

Panasonic dot matrix printers — Panasonic dot matrix printers may work better when run in Epson emulation mode using the appropriate Epson printer drivers.  If you have a 9 pin Panasonic printer, we recommend the Epson LQ850 printer driver.  If you have a 24 pin Panasonic printer, we recommend the Epson LQ2500 printer driver (this is a color printer driver, so it will work with a color Panasonic printer as well as a black and white printer).  Most Panasonic printers are already set to run in Epson emulation mode, but you can check your printer manual for information about this.

Advanced User Tips

The following information is taken from the Family Tree Maker Technical Support Web site www.FamilyTreeMaker.com/support.  This is a valuable resource for both beginners and those more experienced with Family Tree Maker.  The list of topics continues to grow, so visit the site often.  It’s a great way to find easy-to-understand help on a wide variety of technical support and advanced user questions.

Merging Duplicate Sources

Documenting the sources in an ever-growing Family File can be a tough job.  Researching and tracking the sources for hundreds of relatives is a painstaking process, and entering them in your Family File can be just as difficult.  Sometimes you may misspell a source or associate one another with the wrong event.  These are common mistakes and relatively easy to fix with Family Tree Maker (refer to the topic on editing and deleting sources).  But what happens if you wind up with duplicate sources?  Suppose you’ve inadvertently created three different master sources for the same event?  Deleting the duplicates and re-associating them with a single source can take a long time.  Fortunately, Family Tree Maker can save you a lot of time by searching for the duplicates and merging them together for you.

Note:  You must have Family Tree Maker version 4.4 or later in order to merge duplicate sources.

Before Family Tree Maker will merge your duplicates, the spelling and punctuation of each source must be identical.  The first step is to rename potential duplicates so that their names are spelled exactly the same.

To edit your master sources:

1.	From the Edit menu, select Edit Master Sources.

2.	Click Find Source to display a list of the sources in your Family File.

Family Tree Maker displays the Find Master Source dialog box.

3.	Select one of the duplicates from the list (the one whose name you’re going to change), then click OK.

Family Tree Maker displays the associated Master Source dialog box.

4.	Edit the title of the Master Source so that it exactly matches its duplicate.

5.	Press Enter, or click outside the field.

Family Tree Maker displays a confirmation box asking if this source is a duplicate of another in your file.

6.	Click Yes to change the title of the source.

Family Tree Maker displays another dialog box asking if you want to change the title and suggesting that you merge the duplicates.

7.	Click Yes to merge the duplicated sources.

Repeat steps 1 through 6 for all remaining (potential) duplicates.

Once you have merged the duplicate sources, navigate to www.FamilyTreeMaker.com/support and look for more information by entering keyword “merging” in the Technical Support Knowledge Base search window.


Electronic Registration
Electronic Program Registration

We offer registered users the following special benefits: free technical services over the telephone with Family Tree Maker, special discounts on future versions of Family Tree Maker, and information about Family Tree Maker accessory programs and services.  Please fill out and return the registration card, or register online.

Registering your software at the time of installation is different from registering with Family Tree Maker Online.  When you first visit Family Tree Maker Online you will need to provide additional registration information in order to obtain your unique User Number.

IMPORTANT:  this unique number ensures that you are the only one who can create and modify your Home Page and post messages to the message board in your name.

To register your ownership of Family Tree Maker electronically:

1.	Click the Windows 95/98 Start button and then select Programs.

2.	From the flyout menus, select Family Tree Maker, then select FTW Registration.

Family Tree Maker displays the Family Tree Maker Registration dialog box.  Follow the directions on the screen.

Recalling the Electronic Customer Registration Form

If you selected Register Later during the installation of Family Tree Maker, you can still recall the convenient electronic registration form:

1.	From your Windows Start menu, select Programs.

2.	From the flyout menu, select Family Tree Maker (or the folder you created during the Family Tree Maker installation process.

3.	Finally, from the Family Tree Maker program folder, select FTW Registration.

Family Tree Maker displays the Electronic Registration form.

4.	Simply follow the instructions and fill in the requested information.  When completed, you can submit the electronic form via your Internet connection.

Note:  If you purchased this program directly from Brøderbund Software, you were registered at that time and do not need to register again.