May 1997 Brøderbund Software acquired Parsons Technology from Intuit (which included the marketing rights to Family Origins for Windows.1984 Banner Blue Software founded by Ken Hess, As the founder and president of Banner Blue Software from 1984 to 1996, I sold over two million copies of Family Tree Maker.The Learning Company (Mattel Incorporated) Marketed as Family Tree Maker Deluxe Edition II for Macintosh. DOS version shipped with the DEU (Data Exchange Utility) īeginning with this version every copy of Family Tree Maker for Windows came with both a Windows 95 (32-bit) and Windows 3.1x (16-bit) version. 16 bit application compatible with Windows 95. Still supported (Update to the last patch for that version) įamily Tree Maker Version 16 was awarded a CODiE Award in the "Best Consumer Productivity Solution" category in 2006. A new version of Family Tree Maker for Mac was finally released on 4 November 2010. Ī version for the Mac was released in 1997, but due to low market demand was discontinued for over a decade.
Family Tree Maker 2010 claims to further enhance the radical re-design and be more powerful and feature-packed with faster navigation and quicker load times. The 2009 version of the program corrected some of the errors and omissions of its predecessor, and introduced a few new features. It passed through the hands of The Learning Company, Mattel, and others before coming under its current ownership.Ī redesigned Family Tree Maker 2008 was released on 14 August 2007. The software was originally developed by Kenneth Hess of Banner Blue Software, which was purchased by Brøderbund in 1995. As with other genealogy software, FTM allows the researcher to keep track of information collected during research and to create reports, charts, and books containing that information. Family Tree Maker (FTM) is advertised as "the #1 selling family history software".
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