MacFamilyTree 8

MacFamilyTree 8


The best in Genealogy for Mac


$59.99
8.5.4for iPhone
8.1
98 Ratings
Synium Software GmbH
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Apr 18, 2019
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About MacFamilyTree 8

MacFamilyTree 8 gives genealogy a facelift: modern, interactive, convenient and fast. Explore your family tree and your family history in a way generations of chroniclers before you would have loved to do. MacFamilyTree helps you capture your family history and turns data and facts into conclusive reports and visually impressive charts. No matter how you want to illustrate your family relationships – MacFamilyTree 8 has the right solution for you, offering different types of reports, charts or the innovative Virtual Tree 3D view.

Brand-new and unique: CloudTree Sync&Share (macOS Sierra required)

MacFamilyTree 8.1 comes with the brand new CloudTree feature - it is now possible for the first time to work on the same family tree with any number of users and in real time. All changes to your tree will be transferred and available to all other users invited by you within a few seconds. CloudTree operates in compliance with the highest data protection standards.

Your possibilities are nearly endless – optionally synchronize your data via iCloud or CloudTree, access a huge genealogical online archive to assist your research, create websites and family books or do your research on the go with MobileFamilyTree 8, available separately for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

MacFamilyTree 8 Overview:

- well-structured, fast and easy-to-use user interface

- the new Interactive Family Tree: Lets you navigate your entire family tree, view all persons and families, and add persons directly

- CloudTree Sync&Share: Sync your tree with your own devices or share and collaborate with other users

- FamilySearch: Doing extensive research has never been more convenient - access the world's biggest genealogical archive with several billions of person and family records from the comfort your home.

- Genealogical research developed specifically for macOS in order to harness cutting-edge Apple technologies for optimized application performance


Display your family tree: Charts, reports, views, and lists

- Numerous chart and view options, such as the Hourglass Chart, Ancestor Chart, Timeline, Double Ancestor Chart, Statistics, Name Distribution (by first and last names), Statics Maps (based on Apple Maps), Fan Chart, Kinship Chart, Genogram or Globe

- Numerous report options, such as Person Report, Family Report, Kinship Report, Narrative Report, Places List, Events List, Special Features Report, Person Analysis, Anniversaries, Person Lists, Marriage Lists, Plausibility Report, Source List, Task List, Map Report, Descendant Report, and more.

- Use the Virtual Globe feature to see how your family has spread across the globe in the course of time

- The MacFamilyTree 8 Virtual Tree shows your family history from an entirely new perspective - a 3D perspective!

- Full retina support. The user interface and all charts and views support high-resolution screens for optimized display quality


Research and publish

- Use FamilySearch to collaborate with your relatives or millions of other users or browse billions of person entries, which you can download directly into your family tree.

- Publish your family tree free of charge at MacFamilyTree.com – optional password protection available.

- Interview contemporary witnesses and save your videos or audio footage along with your notes

- All charts and reports may be shared directly from within MacFamilyTree via Mail, Messages, Twitter or Facebook.

- The Family Quiz: Find out just how well you know your family tree


.... and so much more!
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What's New in the Latest Version 8.5.4

Last updated on Apr 18, 2019
Old Versions
- Directly open PDF files in the Preview app from the Edit Media section
- Backup window is now displayed correctly on smaller screens
- Bug fixes for older macOS versions, especially when using the new Edit Media section
- Localization updates
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Version History
8.5.4
Apr 18, 2019
- Directly open PDF files in the Preview app from the Edit Media section
- Backup window is now displayed correctly on smaller screens
- Bug fixes for older macOS versions, especially when using the new Edit Media section
- Localization updates
8.5.3
Mar 12, 2019
Display of website and audio icons improved when using the new Dark Mode in macOS Mojave
Option added in the Edit Media section to open selected pictures with Preview
Slideshow fixed for macOS 10.11 El Capitan and macOS 10.10 Yosemite
Web Research sites updated
Localization improvements
8.5.2
Feb 25, 2019
Issue corrected preventing family trees stored on iCloud Drive from opening correctly
8.5.1
Feb 24, 2019
Stability issue fixed when adding new media to a family tree
Opening media from the search section is now working reliable
8.5
Feb 20, 2019
Completely new Media section
- Rewritten from the ground up
- Quick and easy access to all media in a family tree, like Pictures, Videos, PDFs and Web Sites
- Improved search feature
- Blazingly fast: Even 10.000 images show up in under one second on recent Macs
- Easily export media to other apps using drag & drop
- Configurable sorting and grouping
- Directly edit all metadata from the same view: Add titles, labels, notes and sources without having to leave the media section
- Tag persons on group shots
- Directly play videos and audio and quickly browse through PDF files
- Complete keyboard navigation to navigate to the next or previous image
- Use drag & drop to add new media to your family tree

New Media Gallery
- Well structured overview of all media in your family tree
- Enlarge any image, video, website or PDF with a single click to its full size
- Completely configurable including thumbnail size, sorting and grouping
- Keyboard navigation to navigate to the next or previous image
- Different coloring modes to tag media by type or date
- Perfect to present your family tree to your relatives

Improved Slideshow
- Many new configuration options added
- Improved selection of the media items to display in the slideshow
- Better on-screen controls during slideshows

Improved Virtual Globe
- Greatly improved quality of the map
- Better connection lines between event places
- Improved display of place and country names
- Better list of person and person events for easier navigation
- Vastly improved map sharpness on Macs with a Retina display
- Use Smart Filters to only display specific persons
- Improved search feature

Splitting Family Trees & Exporting specific parts
- Need to export part of your family tree into a new file to share it with relatives? MacFamilyTree 8.5 will just do that.
- Control precisely which part of your family tree should be exported (for example, only the paternal or maternal line)
- Easy selection of the persons to export (for example using Smart Filters)

Removing parts of a Family Tree
- Quickly and efficiently remove parts of your family tree without deleting persons one by one
- Easy and precise control of which persons to remove and which to keep in your family tree

Other
- When exporting GEDCOM files, optionally specify to only include the year component of dates
- Many bug fixes and smaller improvements
8.4.3
Dec 4, 2018
- Issue displaying custom event icons fixed
- Issue exporting web sites with images fixed when using Macs with a Retina display
- Cancel button when editing places now works as expected
- Performance enhancements when editing places in databases with a huge number of entered places
- Error merging family trees with associated persons fixed
- Localization updates
8.4.2
Oct 18, 2018
MacFamilyTree has been optimized for macOS Mojave - this includes full support for the new macOS Mojave Dark Mode as well as several performance enhancements

8.4.1 fixes an issue when using macOS High Sierra. 8.4.2 fixes issues importing and exporting GEDCOM files.
8.4.1
Sep 24, 2018
MacFamilyTree has been optimized for macOS Mojave - this includes full support for the new macOS Mojave Dark Mode as well as several performance enhancements

8.4.1 fixes an issue when using macOS High Sierra.
8.4
Sep 24, 2018
MacFamilyTree has been optimized for macOS Mojave - this includes full support for the new macOS Mojave Dark Mode as well as several performance enhancements
8.3.6
Jul 25, 2018
CloudTree synchronisation issues fixed
Several FamilySearch issues fixed
8.3.5
Apr 24, 2018
- Age calculation in several views improved
- Plausibility checks improved
- Bug concerning the layout of several reports fixed
- File size of exported PDF files improved
- Duplicate search for Places improved
- Error selecting categories in the World History section improved
- Error in the GEDCOM header of exported GEDCOM files fixed
- Improved localisations
8.3.4
Mar 15, 2018
Much Improved Interactive Tree
- Support added for Metal 2 when running in macOS 10.13 High Sierra for incredible smooth animations and less energy consumption
- Much improved text rendering when running on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Improved visualisation of family connections, persons and images
- Much improved performance when using Family Search in the Interactive Tree
- Improved indicators when further persons are present
- Sidebar can be hidden when browsing the Interactive Tree
- Print the Interactive Tree
- Configurable Family Connections: Highlight blood relationships and adopted relationships
- Improved generation separators: Quickly discover which persons are related
- Improved control over shadows and lighting
- Improved navigation and zoom

New Database Merge
- Merge GEDCOM files and MacFamilyTree files to your current family tree
- Detects persons, families, sources and places present in both files in order to avoid duplicates
- Decide on a entry-by-entry case which information to preserve

New Duplicate Detection
- Search for duplicate persons, families, places or sources in your family tree
- When duplicate entries are found, merge these entries while preserving family connections

New Timeline
- Completely redeveloped Timeline
- Choose between 6 graphical styles
- Group timeline entries to create separate sections by last name or birth place
- Display historical events, like World War II, directly on the timeline
- Configurable fonts
- Configurable events: Choose which person and family events should be displayed in the timeline
- Timeline can be configured to be displayed as a top to bottom chart or left to right chart

Other Improvements:
- Performance of all charts & diagrams vastly improved
- Performance across the app improved, especially when using macOS 10.13 High Sierra or iOS 11
- Find and reveal specific persons in larger charts
- Smart Filters improved with more search options
- Improved places import from GEDCOM files
- Improved display of married names
- Improved plausibility warnings
- Countless number of smaller improvements and bugfixes

Version 8.3.1 fixes an issue on OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Version 8.3.2 fixes an issue where merging entries or searching for duplicate entries affects CloudTree synchronisation

Version 8.3.3 fixes an bug that could cause the Interactive Tree to crash MacFamilyTree on certain Mac models

Version 8.3.4 fixes a bug displaying charts for a family and some user interface issues while merging databases
8.3.3
Mar 7, 2018
Much Improved Interactive Tree
- Support added for Metal 2 when running in macOS 10.13 High Sierra for incredible smooth animations and less energy consumption
- Much improved text rendering when running on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Improved visualisation of family connections, persons and images
- Much improved performance when using Family Search in the Interactive Tree
- Improved indicators when further persons are present
- Sidebar can be hidden when browsing the Interactive Tree
- Print the Interactive Tree
- Configurable Family Connections: Highlight blood relationships and adopted relationships
- Improved generation separators: Quickly discover which persons are related
- Improved control over shadows and lighting
- Improved navigation and zoom

New Database Merge
- Merge GEDCOM files and MacFamilyTree files to your current family tree
- Detects persons, families, sources and places present in both files in order to avoid duplicates
- Decide on a entry-by-entry case which information to preserve

New Duplicate Detection
- Search for duplicate persons, families, places or sources in your family tree
- When duplicate entries are found, merge these entries while preserving family connections

New Timeline
- Completely redeveloped Timeline
- Choose between 6 graphical styles
- Group timeline entries to create separate sections by last name or birth place
- Display historical events, like World War II, directly on the timeline
- Configurable fonts
- Configurable events: Choose which person and family events should be displayed in the timeline
- Timeline can be configured to be displayed as a top to bottom chart or left to right chart

Other Improvements:
- Performance of all charts & diagrams vastly improved
- Performance across the app improved, especially when using macOS 10.13 High Sierra or iOS 11
- Find and reveal specific persons in larger charts
- Smart Filters improved with more search options
- Improved places import from GEDCOM files
- Improved display of married names
- Improved plausibility warnings
- Countless number of smaller improvements and bugfixes

Version 8.3.1 fixes an issue on OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Version 8.3.2 fixes an issue where merging entries or searching for duplicate entries affects CloudTree synchronisation

Version 8.3.3 fixes an bug that could cause the Interactive Tree to crash MacFamilyTree on certain Mac models
8.3.2
Feb 27, 2018
Much Improved Interactive Tree
- Support added for Metal 2 when running in macOS 10.13 High Sierra for incredible smooth animations and less energy consumption
- Much improved text rendering when running on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Improved visualisation of family connections, persons and images
- Much improved performance when using Family Search in the Interactive Tree
- Improved indicators when further persons are present
- Sidebar can be hidden when browsing the Interactive Tree
- Print the Interactive Tree
- Configurable Family Connections: Highlight blood relationships and adopted relationships
- Improved generation separators: Quickly discover which persons are related
- Improved control over shadows and lighting
- Improved navigation and zoom

New Database Merge
- Merge GEDCOM files and MacFamilyTree files to your current family tree
- Detects persons, families, sources and places present in both files in order to avoid duplicates
- Decide on a entry-by-entry case which information to preserve

New Duplicate Detection
- Search for duplicate persons, families, places or sources in your family tree
- When duplicate entries are found, merge these entries while preserving family connections

New Timeline
- Completely redeveloped Timeline
- Choose between 6 graphical styles
- Group timeline entries to create separate sections by last name or birth place
- Display historical events, like World War II, directly on the timeline
- Configurable fonts
- Configurable events: Choose which person and family events should be displayed in the timeline
- Timeline can be configured to be displayed as a top to bottom chart or left to right chart

Other Improvements:
- Performance of all charts & diagrams vastly improved
- Performance across the app improved, especially when using macOS 10.13 High Sierra or iOS 11
- Find and reveal specific persons in larger charts
- Smart Filters improved with more search options
- Improved places import from GEDCOM files
- Improved display of married names
- Improved plausibility warnings
- Countless number of smaller improvements and bugfixes

Version 8.3.1 fixes an issue on OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Version 8.3.2 fixes an issue where merging entries or searching for duplicate entries affects CloudTree synchronisation
8.3.1
Feb 23, 2018
Much Improved Interactive Tree
- Support added for Metal 2 when running in macOS 10.13 High Sierra for incredible smooth animations and less energy consumption
- Much improved text rendering when running on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Improved visualisation of family connections, persons and images
- Much improved performance when using Family Search in the Interactive Tree
- Improved indicators when further persons are present
- Sidebar can be hidden when browsing the Interactive Tree
- Print the Interactive Tree
- Configurable Family Connections: Highlight blood relationships and adopted relationships
- Improved generation separators: Quickly discover which persons are related
- Improved control over shadows and lighting
- Improved navigation and zoom

New Database Merge
- Merge GEDCOM files and MacFamilyTree files to your current family tree
- Detects persons, families, sources and places present in both files in order to avoid duplicates
- Decide on a entry-by-entry case which information to preserve

New Duplicate Detection
- Search for duplicate persons, families, places or sources in your family tree
- When duplicate entries are found, merge these entries while preserving family connections

New Timeline
- Completely redeveloped Timeline
- Choose between 6 graphical styles
- Group timeline entries to create separate sections by last name or birth place
- Display historical events, like World War II, directly on the timeline
- Configurable fonts
- Configurable events: Choose which person and family events should be displayed in the timeline
- Timeline can be configured to be displayed as a top to bottom chart or left to right chart

Other Improvements:
- Performance of all charts & diagrams vastly improved
- Performance across the app improved, especially when using macOS 10.13 High Sierra or iOS 11
- Find and reveal specific persons in larger charts
- Smart Filters improved with more search options
- Improved places import from GEDCOM files
- Improved display of married names
- Improved plausibility warnings
- Countless number of smaller improvements and bugfixes

Version 8.3.1 fixes an issue on OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.11 El Capitan
8.3
Feb 22, 2018
Much Improved Interactive Tree
- Support added for Metal 2 when running in macOS 10.13 High Sierra for incredible smooth animations and less energy consumption
- Much improved text rendering when running on macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Improved visualisation of family connections, persons and images
- Much improved performance when using Family Search in the Interactive Tree
- Improved indicators when further persons are present
- Sidebar can be hidden when browsing the Interactive Tree
- Print the Interactive Tree
- Configurable Family Connections: Highlight blood relationships and adopted relationships
- Improved generation separators: Quickly discover which persons are related
- Improved control over shadows and lighting
- Improved navigation and zoom

New Database Merge
- Merge GEDCOM files and MacFamilyTree files to your current family tree
- Detects persons, families, sources and places present in both files in order to avoid duplicates
- Decide on a entry-by-entry case which information to preserve

New Duplicate Detection
- Search for duplicate persons, families, places or sources in your family tree
- When duplicate entries are found, merge these entries while preserving family connections

New Timeline
- Completely redeveloped Timeline
- Choose between 6 graphical styles
- Group timeline entries to create separate sections by last name or birth place
- Display historical events, like World War II, directly on the timeline
- Configurable fonts
- Configurable events: Choose which person and family events should be displayed in the timeline
- Timeline can be configured to be displayed as a top to bottom chart or left to right chart

Other Improvements:
- Performance of all charts & diagrams vastly improved
- Performance across the app improved, especially when using macOS 10.13 High Sierra or iOS 11
- Find and reveal specific persons in larger charts
- Smart Filters improved with more search options
- Improved places import from GEDCOM files
- Improved display of married names
- Improved plausibility warnings
- Countless number of smaller improvements and bugfixes
8.2.8
Jan 16, 2018
Smaller bug fixes
8.2.7
Dec 19, 2017
- German and French localisation updated
- Smaller bug fixes
8.2.6
Dec 3, 2017
- Fixes using FamilySearch from within MacFamilyTree
8.2.5
Oct 21, 2017
- Importing notes from GEDCOM files improved
- Bugs in the Statistic Maps resolved
- Picture display in charts improved
- Updated French user manual
- Bug in the language selection when using charts or reports resolved
8.2.4
Oct 7, 2017
- Several fixes for macOS High Sierra
8.2.3
Jul 13, 2017
- Support added to print to more than 32x32 pages
- Issues displaying labels fixed
- Children in the Fan Chart are now ordered correctly
- The Hourglass Chart hides information marked as private correctly
- Localisation updates
8.2.2
Jul 4, 2017
New & Improved Charts
- New Fractal Tree Chart
- New Horizontal/Vertical Fractal Chart
- New Symmetrical Fractal Tree Chart
- New Fractal Circular Tree Chart
- Completely rewritten styling of most charts
- Many configureable styling options to choose from
- Configureable event & fact display
- Configureable line styles
- Configureable shadow styles
- Size of boxes can be increased/decreased depending on generation in nearly all charts for better space efficiency
- Greatly improved performance rendering charts
- Select custom fonts in all charts
- Labels can now be displayed in each chart
- New background styles
- Improved Timeline (configureable coloring and styles)
- Reference Numbers can be shown in all charts
- Display of kinships now available in the Genogram Chart
- Tree Chart now displays family events like marriage and divorce correctly

Improved Fan Chart
- Configureable styles added
- Improved Fan Chart text rendering
- Much improved performance

Improved Charts Editor & Printing
- Configureable pagination layout for poster printing
- Option to automatically layout objects to a specific count of pages
- When printing to multiple pages, a page number can be printed on each page for easy identification
- Unlimited undo while editing a chart
- Improved user interface

FamilySearch improvements
- Performance of FamilySearch integration in the Interactive Tree dramatically improved
- Comparing local and FamilySearch persons improved
- Coordinates of places are automatically downloaded from FamilySearch
- LDS Ordinances added (reserve, print, share with Temple etc.)
- Family Tree is automatically scanned for possible LDS Ordinances that can be reserved

Other
- Improved organisation of functions
- Keyboard navigation added to the Interactive Tree
- GEDCOM import and interoperability with other apps improved
- Date interpretation when exporting GEDCOM files improved
- Options added to configure which additional names to display in addition to the full name
- CloudTree performance improved

Version 8.2.2 solves a stability issue using FamilySearch, improves GEDCOM import and printing.
8.2.1
Jun 23, 2017
New & Improved Charts
- New Fractal Tree Chart
- New Horizontal/Vertical Fractal Chart
- New Symmetrical Fractal Tree Chart
- New Fractal Circular Tree Chart
- Completely rewritten styling of most charts
- Many configureable styling options to choose from
- Configureable event & fact display
- Configureable line styles
- Configureable shadow styles
- Size of boxes can be increased/decreased depending on generation in nearly all charts for better space efficiency
- Greatly improved performance rendering charts
- Select custom fonts in all charts
- Labels can now be displayed in each chart
- New background styles
- Improved Timeline (configureable coloring and styles)
- Reference Numbers can be shown in all charts
- Display of kinships now available in the Genogram Chart
- Tree Chart now displays family events like marriage and divorce correctly

Improved Fan Chart
- Configureable styles added
- Improved Fan Chart text rendering
- Much improved performance

Improved Charts Editor & Printing
- Configureable pagination layout for poster printing
- Option to automatically layout objects to a specific count of pages
- When printing to multiple pages, a page number can be printed on each page for easy identification
- Unlimited undo while editing a chart
- Improved user interface

FamilySearch improvements
- Performance of FamilySearch integration in the Interactive Tree dramatically improved
- Comparing local and FamilySearch persons improved
- Coordinates of places are automatically downloaded from FamilySearch
- LDS Ordinances added (reserve, print, share with Temple etc.)
- Family Tree is automatically scanned for possible LDS Ordinances that can be reserved

Other
- Improved organisation of functions
- Keyboard navigation added to the Interactive Tree
- GEDCOM import and interoperability with other apps improved
- Date interpretation when exporting GEDCOM files improved
- Options added to configure which additional names to display in addition to the full name
- CloudTree performance improved

Version 8.2.1 solves issues in the Narrative Report as well as a bug in the GEDCOM Export.
8.2
Jun 21, 2017
New & Improved Charts
- New Fractal Tree Chart
- New Horizontal/Vertical Fractal Chart
- New Symmetrical Fractal Tree Chart
- New Fractal Circular Tree Chart
- Completely rewritten styling of most charts
- Many configureable styling options to choose from
- Configureable event & fact display
- Configureable line styles
- Configureable shadow styles
- Size of boxes can be increased/decreased depending on generation in nearly all charts for better space efficiency
- Greatly improved performance rendering charts
- Select custom fonts in all charts
- Labels can now be displayed in each chart
- New background styles
- Improved Timeline (configureable coloring and styles)
- Reference Numbers can be shown in all charts
- Display of kinships now available in the Genogram Chart
- Tree Chart now displays family events like marriage and divorce correctly

Improved Fan Chart
- Configureable styles added
- Improved Fan Chart text rendering
- Much improved performance

Improved Charts Editor & Printing
- Configureable pagination layout for poster printing
- Option to automatically layout objects to a specific count of pages
- When printing to multiple pages, a page number can be printed on each page for easy identification
- Unlimited undo while editing a chart
- Improved user interface

FamilySearch improvements
- Performance of FamilySearch integration in the Interactive Tree dramatically improved
- Comparing local and FamilySearch persons improved
- Coordinates of places are automatically downloaded from FamilySearch
- LDS Ordinances added (reserve, print, share with Temple etc.)
- Family Tree is automatically scanned for possible LDS Ordinances that can be reserved

Other
- Improved organisation of functions
- Keyboard navigation added to the Interactive Tree
- GEDCOM import and interoperability with other apps improved
- Date interpretation when exporting GEDCOM files improved
- Options added to configure which additional names to display in addition to the full name
- CloudTree performance improved

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