MacFamilyTree 8.1.4 (Mac OS X)

MacFamilyTree 8.1.4 | MacOSX | 192.2 MB

MacFamilyTree 8 is the right genealogy application for you, offering different types of reports, charts or the innovative Virtual Tree 3D view. Optionally synchronize your data via iCloud, conduct your research with the help of a free online genealogy archive with billions of records, create websites or do your research on the go with MobileFamilyTree for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. MacFamilyTree also lets you create family books in a flash – share them as a PDF or print them and give them away as presents.

Whats new in MacFamilyTree 8:
MacFamilyTree 8 is the largest update weve ever released for our popular genealogy software. Version 8 comes with a huge number of new features and improvements.

New Interactive Tree
– Much improved layout
– Beautiful new look
– Navigate, add and enter persons faster than ever
– Better FamilySearch integration
– Force Touch supported
– Completely configureable
– Display up to 8 generations of ancestors and descendants at once, including brothers & sisters
– Full keyboard control for browsing the Interactive Tree

Completely new user interface
– Much better usage of screen space
– Configureable functions layout
– Hide functions you do not use often
– Quick keyboard navigation
– Global back and forward history similar to a web browser
– New database management window

Smart Filters
– See only relevant entries from your database youre currently focusing on
– Create and save complex search filters (all living women in Texas)
– Available for Persons, Families, Sources, Places and ToDos
– Also available for most reports to create specialized reports from a subset of persons from your tree

Powerful new Sidebar Lists
– Completely redesigned Person, Family, Place, Source and ToDo sidebar lists
– Much improved search options
– Configureable grouping/sectioning options (for example by birth place, last name, creation date and so on)
– Sorting options greatly enhanced
– Available in the Edit, Views and Reports sections

Custom Event & Fact types
– Create your own Person Events, Facts or Family Events, and record any kind of information
– All reports and views adapted to display custom events and fact types
– Hide event and fact types you do not use often
– Easily import data from other genealogy apps
– More default event and fact types added
– Improved management of event icons

Improved edit mode
– Adjustable font size for all edit sections
– Improved keyboard navigation
– Improved event, fact and source lists
– Optionally larger sizes for parents, partners and children above and below the edit view
– Better readability
– Better performance

Change Log
– All changes in your database are recorded for further reference
– Keep track of when you worked on which records
– See all change log entries for a specific person or family directly in the edit sections
Much improved performance
– All parts of MacFamilyTree & MobileFamilyTree heavily optimized
– Improved memory usage

GEDCOM support
– Much improved compatibility with other apps
– Better handling of custom GEDCOM tags from other genealogy apps
– Improved importing performance
– Detailed error reporting
– Improved and configureable character encoding detection

Navigation Timeline
– Quickly see and select persons related to the person you are currently editing
– See when events happened in a persons lifetime
– Available in all edit functions

Plausibility testing
– Checks for many different kinds of data integrity problems like buried before death
– Available for the Interactive Tree or when editing persons or families

Improved places management
– Map added to check if the selected place is the correct one
– Improved automatic batch coordinate lookup
– Rewritten places merge including automatic merge suggestions

Improved FamilySearch integration
– Auto-Login option added
– Improved performance when matching and downloading persons
– Support for more event types

Other
– Unknown gender option added
– Charts & Reports options revamped for better numerical input
– More sorting & grouping options for the Person List report
– Name Distribution can now be displayed for first name
– Labels can now be displayed in all charts
– New Events & Facts statistic chart added
– New search sites added to the Web Research feature
– Performance of the Media Gallery improved
– Improved import from Apples Photos app
– Person List Report option added to separate name components into different columns
– New user manual

Whats New in Version 8.1.4
Issue syncing with CloudTree fixed
Issue merging persons in a family tree fixed
Touch Bar integration using the Interactive Tree improved

Requirements: MacFamilyTree 8 requires Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher.