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Price: QTY: Family Tree Maker® Platinum, 17th Edition (disks, manual) Family Tree Maker™ Platinum™, 17th Edition Deluxe Australian and New Zealand EditionJust $111.00 (incl. GST and certified Australia Post delivery to anywhere within Australia).Just AUD$110.00 (including AIR MAIL delivery to anywhere in New Zealand).WHY not get cracking with your genealogy research using the latest, 17th edition - PLATINUM VERSION - of Family Tree Maker™?It's a beaut! This special local variant of the world's most popular genealogy software package is the one for Australians and New Zealanders researching their British, Caledonian or Celtic roots.It's drop-dead easy to install. You'll be enjoying the excitement of cataloguing your pedigree bloodlines within minutes.It's so popular because it was designed with the beginner in mind (but not forgetting expert users).Family Tree Maker™ - or "FTM" - also hooks you up with an amazing online library of genealogical records that help in your hunt for your Aussie or Kiwi forebears - and their Brit predecessors!So then, what's in the "Down Under" edition of FTM Platinum™, 17th Edition? FINDING your family’s history is a process with many twists and turns...but setting out and organising the information that your research has revealed is where Family Tree Maker™ shines. This amazing package delivers an unprecedented wealth of data (including more than $400.00 incl. GST in BONUS VALUE!), easy-to-use research tools, and a wide variety of trees, charts and more.With Family Tree Maker™, tomorrow’s history begins today!Get started in minutes by entering all the information that you already know.With Pedigree View you can display up to five generations at once for easy navigation.Share your findings with family and friends all over the world. Print out professional quality family albums and other personalised keepsakes. Export as a PDF™-format file for easy viewing on on almost any PC (or Website). Burn files to CD for convenient storage. Web collaboration - make contact with family members or distant relatives researching your family tree. Internet back-up - save your serach online for convenient data retrieval. Build a "Family Web Page" - add photos and share updates. Family Tree Maker™ Platinum™, 17th Edition, lets you easily: Build a family tree starting with names, dates and events. Attach photos, documents and audio and video files. Quickly merge new facts and records from the Web into your tree. Use interactive maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived. Design and print charts to display at home and share with family. This completely redesigned program has dozens of new features, including: A new interface that combines elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet, making it much easier to enter, view and edit your data. Vastly improved integration with Ancestry.com.au. A "Web Clipper" that lets you merge data from anywhere on the Web into your tree. Standardised criteria for rating your sources. Features that make it easy to manage photos and other media files and incorporate them into charts and reports. A place authority with more than three million place-names that helps you correctly enter locations. Dynamic lists that show you all the people and events associated with a particular place. Timelines that highlight personal, family and world events that occurred during your ancestors’ lives. A robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list. The ability to import data from other genealogy programmes, including Personal Ancestral File™, The Master Genealogist™ and Legacy Family Tree™. By using Family Tree Maker™ Platinum™, 17th Edition, with Ancestry.com.au, you can: Quickly compare information you find on Ancestry™ with the data in your tree and use a merge wizard to selectively import new facts and records. Take advantage of "Ancestry Hints" - a contextual search feature that automatically suggests records pertaining to people in your tree. Back up your Family Tree Maker™ data by automatically creating a member tree on Ancestry (you can choose to share your tree with others or keep it private). Create heirloom-quality books using the new Ancestry Press™ self-publishing tool. Minimum System Requirements Windows® XP™/Vista™ Processor: 1GHz Intel® Pentium® III (or equivalent) Hard disk space: 400 MB for installation Memory: 512 MB of RAM Display: 1024 x 768 resolution for monitor 32x CD/CD-R (required for installation) All online features require Internet access Training video requires a DVD-ROM drive To learn more about Family Tree Maker™ many, easy-to-use features, visit www.familytreemaker.com.au, and if you live in south-eastern Queensland, consider joining the next session of the Family Tree Maker™ User Group (FTMUG) of the Queensland Family History Society Incorporated at the Society's magnificent Gaythorne [Brisbane] library. Visit http://www.qfhs.org.au/sigs.htm#FTMU for more details about the group's meeting times, etc. SO WHAT ABOUT ALL THAT INFORMATION ON DISK? Here's what's also included for the low, low purchase price of the software: 90-day subscription to Ancestry.com.au.** Access more than 700 million UK, Ireland, Australian and New Zealand records including the Australian Convict Transportation Registers: 1788 to 1868, New South Wales Sands' Directories (1861-1933), Maryborough, Queensland Immigrants (1861-1891), Bounty Immigrants (NSW, 1828-1842), The ANZAC Day Memorial Book, as well as the England, Wales and Scotland Censuses (1841-1901), the England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes (1837-2005). UK and Ireland Parish and Probate Records and the British phone books (1880-1984). Online Resources.*** Direct links into hundreds of the best genealogy sites in Australia, New Zealand and around the world. Access billions of records in National Archives, Public Records, Military Records, Census Data and much more. Training Video featuring Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak. Watch leading family historian expert Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak as she presents tips and guidelines for building your family tree. (DVD) Online Learning Centre. Offers how-to articles, useful tips and other resources to help you with all your genealogy needs. * NPD TechWorld, June 2005-May 2007** Subscription term begins upon installation of your Family Tree Maker™ software*** Requires email registration Well all right then, but what about all the additional, FREE CD-ROM indexes in the box?Really give your pedigree pursuit some added enjoyment and interest by browsing the veritable library of names and dates to be found on the suite of searchable CDs included with the Platinum Deluxe Australian and New Zealand - 17th Edition - of FTM™.What fun and curiosities will be revealed when you pop the following titles into your CD caddy..."HAPPY HUNTING" from Garrison Communications and the world's No. 1 family history software programme. 1. Convictions - Australian Shipping Arrivals and Departures (1788-1968), ver. 7.x => UPDATED and IMPROVED EDITION for 2007!Convictions: Shipping Arrivals and Departures CD contains details of more than 80,000 arrivals and departures relating to Australia and New Zealand, with references to more than 112,000 unique references to passengers, crew and convicts.Although this is only a small fraction of the total number of vessel movements and passengers over the timeframe, the CD contains information such as passengers departing Australian ports, which is not generally available from the Archive authorities until the late 1800s.The CD also contains a wealth of background material relating to shipping for Australia, neighbouring countries and islands.Included on this disk are transcripts of reports and newspaper articles, images of newspaper cuttings and details of shipping movements and passengers mentioned in the papers of the time, as well as transcribed information from archive material and other sources.The articles range from reports of crewmembers brought before the courts for misbehaviour to personal accounts of encounters with storms, shipwrecks and murderous attacks occurring in the Pacific.To locate information on the disk, there is an extensive collection of indexes.These include arrivals and departures of vessels by date and port, by vessel name, indexes of shipwrecks by date and name of vessel, ships captains, crew, passengers and convicts.The CD also includes an index to articles by date and vessel.The information has been sourced predominantly from contemporary material. No single source provides a complete record for a port and each source has errors that need to be considered. Where several sources are used for an individual event, the local source material is given precedence.Minimum System Requirements: Windows™ 98, Me™, 2000™, XP™, NT™ or Vista™, CD-ROM drive, 166Mhz Pentium™ or faster, 34MB hard disk, 16MB RAM, 32-bit colour video display, 8x CD-ROM drive, Internet Explorer™ 5.5 or above. *Image used for illustrative purposes only.2. Pallot's Marriage Index UNTIL now, public access to the very important Pallot Indexes of Marriages (and Baptisms) was restricted to expensive one off searches of the index slips by a third party. It was not possible for the public to conduct their own searches or see the index slips.Now, you can have the whole index on disk in your own home, and you can search for any word within seconds.Not only that, each record on the CD has a clickable link that takes you directly - free of charge - to an image of that original index slip on the Ancestry.com website (an Ancestry.com subscription is not required for this).Pallot's Marriage Index is essential for researchers with London ancestry.There are 1,695,352 records on this CD that may be searched in as much detail as you wish, by any word.The index slips were handwritten on paper, and indexing continued regularly over a period of more than 150 years.The dates range from 1780 to 1837.These records cover all but two of the 103 parishes in the old City of London including entries from 2,500 parishes in 38 counties outside of London.Each record identifies the church or chapel, marriage date, names of bride and of groom, whether spinster, bachelor, widow or widower, and many include other details.Minimum System Requirements: 486/33 processor (Pentium™ recommended), Windows 95™ or better, 16MB RAM, 21MB hard disk space, 2x CD-ROM drive, 800x600 monitor resolution, 16-bit colour or higher. *Image used for illustrative purposes only. 3. Pallot's Baptism Index UNTIL now, public access to the very important Pallot Indexes of Baptisms (and Marriages) was restricted to expensive one off searches of the index slips by a third party.It was not possible for the public to conduct their own searches or see the index slips. Now, you can have the whole index on disk in your own home, and you can search for any word within seconds.Not only that, each record on the CD has a clickable link that takes you directly - free-of-charge - to an image of that original index slip on the Ancestry.com website.Pallot's Baptism Index once contained more than 12 million records, but most were destroyed in World War II.The 201,976 surviving christening and baptism records on this CD are a valuable resource for those seeking ancestors in the Greater London area.The records on this CD may be searched in as much detail as you wish, by any word.The dates range from 1780 to three years after the onset of General Registration in 1837.These parish christening and baptismal registrations (with some birth dates recorded) cover at least 22 parishes in London and Middlesex, around 27 other parishes, with many miscellaneous entries including several records from counties in Wales.The name of the child and parentage, the parish of baptism and the date are usually given. In addition to instant searching on the CD-ROM, online access to images of the original, handwritten Pallot index slips is included (an Ancestry.com subscription is not required for this).Most slips give the name of the child and parentage, the parish of baptism and the date.The original paper slips are owned and held at The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canturbury, England.Minimum System Requirements: 486/33 processor (Pentium™ recommended), Windows 95™ or better, 16MB RAM, 21MB hard disk space, 2x CD-ROM drive, 800x600 monitor resolution, 16-bit colour or higher. *Image used for illustrative purposes only. 4. Australian Handbook for 1904 (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea) A handy reference to the world of our ancestors around 100 years ago.A total of 1,012 pages packed with all kinds of useful and interesting information including calendar of notable events, mail tables showing arrivals and departures of Australasian mails, British customs’ tariff, postal regulations, public amusements, public offices, Members of Parliament, emigration to Australasia, mining and land regulations, telegraphic and postal arrangements between Great Britain and Australia, history, descriptive accounts and statistical information on each State and Territory, New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea, plus a gazetteer of the principal towns in Australia and New Zealand including irrigation, colonial buyers’ guide, importers in Australasia, banks, Anglo-Australian companies, government debentures, maps, plans and much more.Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95™, 98™ 2000™, ME™, XP™, NT™ or Vista™, CD-ROM drive. 5. Wise's New Zealand Post Office Directory for 1900 An extremely useful tool for establishing when and where a person lived, how they lived, the occupations they held and the people they knew.Wise’s New Zealand directory contains regional, alphabetical, trade and miscellaneous sections which list the names, addresses and professions of many in New Zealand in 1900. It also includes a street guide of major towns and separate directories for banking, public companies, medical, legal, ecclesiastical, educational, pastoral, municipal and government.The whole 2,018-page directory, including most text in the ads, is searchable, useful not only for finding names, but also places occupations and other information for family and local historians.An incredible wealth of information all packed on to one CD for you to use in the comfort of your own home.High-quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD can be viewed by any computer using Adobe™ Acrobat Reader™ (ver.4 or later recommended). The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation.Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95™, 98™ 2000™, ME™, XP™, NT™ or Vista™, CD-ROM drive.
Price:
Family Tree Maker™ Platinum™, 17th Edition Deluxe Australian and New Zealand EditionJust $111.00 (incl. GST and certified Australia Post delivery to anywhere within Australia).Just AUD$110.00 (including AIR MAIL delivery to anywhere in New Zealand).WHY not get cracking with your genealogy research using the latest, 17th edition - PLATINUM VERSION - of Family Tree Maker™?It's a beaut! This special local variant of the world's most popular genealogy software package is the one for Australians and New Zealanders researching their British, Caledonian or Celtic roots.It's drop-dead easy to install. You'll be enjoying the excitement of cataloguing your pedigree bloodlines within minutes.It's so popular because it was designed with the beginner in mind (but not forgetting expert users).Family Tree Maker™ - or "FTM" - also hooks you up with an amazing online library of genealogical records that help in your hunt for your Aussie or Kiwi forebears - and their Brit predecessors!So then, what's in the "Down Under" edition of FTM Platinum™, 17th Edition?
FINDING your family’s history is a process with many twists and turns...but setting out and organising the information that your research has revealed is where Family Tree Maker™ shines. This amazing package delivers an unprecedented wealth of data (including more than $400.00 incl. GST in BONUS VALUE!), easy-to-use research tools, and a wide variety of trees, charts and more.With Family Tree Maker™, tomorrow’s history begins today!Get started in minutes by entering all the information that you already know.With Pedigree View you can display up to five generations at once for easy navigation.Share your findings with family and friends all over the world.
This completely redesigned program has dozens of new features, including:
By using Family Tree Maker™ Platinum™, 17th Edition, with Ancestry.com.au, you can:
Minimum System Requirements
To learn more about Family Tree Maker™ many, easy-to-use features, visit www.familytreemaker.com.au, and if you live in south-eastern Queensland, consider joining the next session of the Family Tree Maker™ User Group (FTMUG) of the Queensland Family History Society Incorporated at the Society's magnificent Gaythorne [Brisbane] library. Visit http://www.qfhs.org.au/sigs.htm#FTMU for more details about the group's meeting times, etc.
Here's what's also included for the low, low purchase price of the software:
* NPD TechWorld, June 2005-May 2007** Subscription term begins upon installation of your Family Tree Maker™ software*** Requires email registration
Well all right then, but what about all the additional, FREE CD-ROM indexes in the box?Really give your pedigree pursuit some added enjoyment and interest by browsing the veritable library of names and dates to be found on the suite of searchable CDs included with the Platinum Deluxe Australian and New Zealand - 17th Edition - of FTM™.What fun and curiosities will be revealed when you pop the following titles into your CD caddy..."HAPPY HUNTING" from Garrison Communications and the world's No. 1 family history software programme.
1. Convictions - Australian Shipping Arrivals and Departures (1788-1968), ver. 7.x => UPDATED and IMPROVED EDITION for 2007!Convictions: Shipping Arrivals and Departures CD contains details of more than 80,000 arrivals and departures relating to Australia and New Zealand, with references to more than 112,000 unique references to passengers, crew and convicts.Although this is only a small fraction of the total number of vessel movements and passengers over the timeframe, the CD contains information such as passengers departing Australian ports, which is not generally available from the Archive authorities until the late 1800s.The CD also contains a wealth of background material relating to shipping for Australia, neighbouring countries and islands.Included on this disk are transcripts of reports and newspaper articles, images of newspaper cuttings and details of shipping movements and passengers mentioned in the papers of the time, as well as transcribed information from archive material and other sources.The articles range from reports of crewmembers brought before the courts for misbehaviour to personal accounts of encounters with storms, shipwrecks and murderous attacks occurring in the Pacific.To locate information on the disk, there is an extensive collection of indexes.These include arrivals and departures of vessels by date and port, by vessel name, indexes of shipwrecks by date and name of vessel, ships captains, crew, passengers and convicts.The CD also includes an index to articles by date and vessel.The information has been sourced predominantly from contemporary material. No single source provides a complete record for a port and each source has errors that need to be considered. Where several sources are used for an individual event, the local source material is given precedence.Minimum System Requirements: Windows™ 98, Me™, 2000™, XP™, NT™ or Vista™, CD-ROM drive, 166Mhz Pentium™ or faster, 34MB hard disk, 16MB RAM, 32-bit colour video display, 8x CD-ROM drive, Internet Explorer™ 5.5 or above. *Image used for illustrative purposes only.2. Pallot's Marriage Index UNTIL now, public access to the very important Pallot Indexes of Marriages (and Baptisms) was restricted to expensive one off searches of the index slips by a third party. It was not possible for the public to conduct their own searches or see the index slips.Now, you can have the whole index on disk in your own home, and you can search for any word within seconds.Not only that, each record on the CD has a clickable link that takes you directly - free of charge - to an image of that original index slip on the Ancestry.com website (an Ancestry.com subscription is not required for this).Pallot's Marriage Index is essential for researchers with London ancestry.There are 1,695,352 records on this CD that may be searched in as much detail as you wish, by any word.The index slips were handwritten on paper, and indexing continued regularly over a period of more than 150 years.The dates range from 1780 to 1837.These records cover all but two of the 103 parishes in the old City of London including entries from 2,500 parishes in 38 counties outside of London.Each record identifies the church or chapel, marriage date, names of bride and of groom, whether spinster, bachelor, widow or widower, and many include other details.Minimum System Requirements: 486/33 processor (Pentium™ recommended), Windows 95™ or better, 16MB RAM, 21MB hard disk space, 2x CD-ROM drive, 800x600 monitor resolution, 16-bit colour or higher. *Image used for illustrative purposes only.
3. Pallot's Baptism Index UNTIL now, public access to the very important Pallot Indexes of Baptisms (and Marriages) was restricted to expensive one off searches of the index slips by a third party.It was not possible for the public to conduct their own searches or see the index slips. Now, you can have the whole index on disk in your own home, and you can search for any word within seconds.Not only that, each record on the CD has a clickable link that takes you directly - free-of-charge - to an image of that original index slip on the Ancestry.com website.Pallot's Baptism Index once contained more than 12 million records, but most were destroyed in World War II.The 201,976 surviving christening and baptism records on this CD are a valuable resource for those seeking ancestors in the Greater London area.The records on this CD may be searched in as much detail as you wish, by any word.The dates range from 1780 to three years after the onset of General Registration in 1837.These parish christening and baptismal registrations (with some birth dates recorded) cover at least 22 parishes in London and Middlesex, around 27 other parishes, with many miscellaneous entries including several records from counties in Wales.The name of the child and parentage, the parish of baptism and the date are usually given. In addition to instant searching on the CD-ROM, online access to images of the original, handwritten Pallot index slips is included (an Ancestry.com subscription is not required for this).Most slips give the name of the child and parentage, the parish of baptism and the date.The original paper slips are owned and held at The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, Canturbury, England.Minimum System Requirements: 486/33 processor (Pentium™ recommended), Windows 95™ or better, 16MB RAM, 21MB hard disk space, 2x CD-ROM drive, 800x600 monitor resolution, 16-bit colour or higher. *Image used for illustrative purposes only.
4. Australian Handbook for 1904 (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea)
A handy reference to the world of our ancestors around 100 years ago.A total of 1,012 pages packed with all kinds of useful and interesting information including calendar of notable events, mail tables showing arrivals and departures of Australasian mails, British customs’ tariff, postal regulations, public amusements, public offices, Members of Parliament, emigration to Australasia, mining and land regulations, telegraphic and postal arrangements between Great Britain and Australia, history, descriptive accounts and statistical information on each State and Territory, New Zealand, Fiji and New Guinea, plus a gazetteer of the principal towns in Australia and New Zealand including irrigation, colonial buyers’ guide, importers in Australasia, banks, Anglo-Australian companies, government debentures, maps, plans and much more.Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95™, 98™ 2000™, ME™, XP™, NT™ or Vista™, CD-ROM drive.
5. Wise's New Zealand Post Office Directory for 1900
An extremely useful tool for establishing when and where a person lived, how they lived, the occupations they held and the people they knew.Wise’s New Zealand directory contains regional, alphabetical, trade and miscellaneous sections which list the names, addresses and professions of many in New Zealand in 1900. It also includes a street guide of major towns and separate directories for banking, public companies, medical, legal, ecclesiastical, educational, pastoral, municipal and government.The whole 2,018-page directory, including most text in the ads, is searchable, useful not only for finding names, but also places occupations and other information for family and local historians.An incredible wealth of information all packed on to one CD for you to use in the comfort of your own home.High-quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD can be viewed by any computer using Adobe™ Acrobat Reader™ (ver.4 or later recommended). The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation.Minimum System Requirements: Windows 95™, 98™ 2000™, ME™, XP™, NT™ or Vista™, CD-ROM drive.
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