Genea-Musings: Getting Family Tree Maker 2012 Help

I presented a two-hour?Family Tree Maker 2012 Workshop last Saturday to a fine group of Chula Vista Genealogical Society members and guests. ?Part of my presentation was visiting all of the "Help" websites that I know about in the online world.

As users of genealogy software, we often forget that there are large communities of users for our software programs that may have experienced, and probably solved, the issues and problems that we experience in our daily use of the product.

These Help websites for Family Tree Maker genealogy software include:

* ?Of course, the most immediate Help can be obtained by using the "Help" menu item in the software itself. ?The "Help" button is our best friend when we have a question or a problem using the software.

The rest of my presentation dealt with the seven different workspaces in FTM 2012; how to enter names, dates, places, facts, notes, sources, media; ?merging, attaching, unlinking, and deleting persons; navigation within FTM 2012; importing a GEDCOM, exporting a GEDCOM, and syncing with an Ancestry Member Tree; using the source templates; creating reports, books and charts; and so on.?

The one comment I heard loud and clear: ?"Family Tree Maker has sure changed over the years!"

Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

Source: http://www.geneamusings.com/2013/01/getting-family-tree-maker-2012-help.html

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