Map My Family Tree
See your ancestors’ lives on a map with Map My Family Tree, a revolutionary new genealogy mapping product just released this fall. Map My Family Tree reads your genealogy file and automatically plots all ancestral life events on customizable, color maps. This allows you to see where your ancestors were born, married and died.
With Map My Family Tree you can track family migrations using the world and country maps. Zoom into any part of the world to see detailed events in that particular location. Map My Family Tree uses state-of-the-art vector mapping technology so you see more, not less geographic detail as you zoom in. With just a quick mouse click, you can automatically see each location on online maps, satellite images and aerial photographs with the built-in link to Google Earth, Google Maps, TerraServer USA and MapQuest.com.
You can choose from 15 different map styles included in the software to display your family maps or you can customize your maps with over 16-million colors and a wide range of font styles and sizes. With the time scrolling bar you can dynamically select which time period is displayed on your map. As you slide the thumbtrack along the scroll bar, you will see the towns “twinkling” to show the movements, voyages and migrations of your ancestors.
Select which people and events you want displayed on your map by filtering your data by name, ancestor line, descendant line, date, event type and gender. This is especially helpful when you want to create maps with single family lines, births only, events from a specific time period, etc. Print your maps on a wide variety of paper sizes and/or electronically publish them to display on websites or email to family and friends. Use these published maps to collaborate with other researchers.
In addition to creating family maps, Map My Family Tree will automatically check your family history file for place name typos, missing counties and other inaccuracies. You may then copy and paste corrections to your genealogy file. As well, you can lookup over 3.3-million place names from around the world, including US churches and cemeteries. This is a great tool to find correctly spelled place names.
The newest product from Progeny Software, Map My Family Tree is a “must have” for anyone interested in seeing their ancestors’ lives on a map!
Compatible programs include:
• Family Tree Maker
• Ancestry Family Tree
• Ancestral Quest
• Family Historian
• Heritage Family Tree Deluxe
• Legacy Family Tree
• Personal Ancestral File
• Roots Magic
• The Master Genealogist
* Map My Family Tree will also read GEDCOM 5.5 files (including data with Western European diacritics).
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Windows 2000 or XP
300 MHZ-speed Processor (Pentium III recommended)
64 MB RAM minimum required (128 MB RAM or higher recommended)
260 MB free disk space
Additional disk space will be required to create a geo-coded file from your genealogy database
VGA or better monitor
Internet connection required to view online maps, satellite images and aerial photographs (optional)