PROVO, Utah, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ancestry.com,
the world's largest online family resource, today revealed a Mac®
version of Family Tree Maker® at the 2010 National Genealogical
Society Family History Conference in Salt
Lake City, Utah. The new version of the world's No. 1
selling family history software is planned for release later this
year.
"Every innovation or update we make is driven by what customers
tell us they need to further their family history research," said
Eric Shoup, Senior Vice President of
Product. "The Mac version of Family Tree Maker was the obvious next
step forward to add to our family of Ancestry.com products and is a
much anticipated product for our Mac-based customers."
Family Tree Maker has helped users organize their family history
research for more than 20 years. The software provides users the
tools they need to build a family tree, record memories and
organize photos, stories, videos and audio clips in a way that will
help easily capture and share the story of their ancestors.
Family Tree Maker accesses the robust collection of family
history records and powerful search features from Ancestry.com -
without leaving the software. When connected to the Internet,
Family Tree Maker automatically searches Ancestry.com for
historical documents about the individuals in the user's family
tree. Ancestry.com subscribers can easily view and import these
historical records into their family tree with just a few mouse
clicks.
Family Tree Maker 2010 is the current PC version of the
software. The Mac version of Family Tree Maker will be built on the
functionality of Family Tree Maker 2010 and constructed from the
bottom up to take full advantage of the Mac platform in terms of
technology and user experience.
Early this year, Ancestry.com expanded to another Apple®
platform: the iPhone®. With the launch of its Tree To Go iPhone
application in January 2010,
Ancestry.com now gives users access to generations of family
history at every turn. From their iPhone, users can easily upload
photos, update sources and edit trees. The Tree To Go iPhone
application is available for iPhone and iPod touch® for free
through the iPhone App Store or
iTunes®.
Ancestry.com also announced today the launch of its new
Ancestry.com Wiki. This wiki will feature a living version of the
company's two largest reference books, The Source: A Guidebook
to American Genealogy and Red
Book: American State, County and Town Sources. These
books, which are exhaustive guides to American genealogy, will now
be made available for the family history community to update,
expand on and even add to, making it a go-to resource for guidance
and information. The beta version of the Ancestry.com Wiki is
available to the public for free at www.ancestry.com/wiki.
About Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM) is the world's largest online
family history resource, with more than one million paying
subscribers. The company has digitized and put online more than 4
billion records over the past 13 years. Ancestry users have created
over 14 million family trees containing nearly 1.5 billion
profiles. Ancestry.com has local Web sites directed at nine
countries, including its flagship Web site at www.ancestry.com.
SOURCE Ancestry.com