Family Tree Maker 2008 lets you easily:

• Build a family tree starting with names, dates, and events
• Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files
• Quickly merge new facts and records from the Web into your tree
• Use interactive maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived
• Design and print charts to display at home and share with family

• A new interface that combines elements of a pedigree chart and a family group sheet, making it much easier to enter, view, and edit your data
• Vastly improved integration with Ancestry.com
• A Web clipper that lets you merge data from anywhere on the Web into your tree
• Standardized criteria for rating your sources
• Features that make it easy to manage photos and other media files and incorporate them into charts and reports
• A place authority with more than 3 million place names that helps you correctly enter locations
• Dynamic lists that show you all the people and events associated with a particular place
• Timelines that highlight personal, family, and world events that occurred during your ancestors' lives
• A robust tool for sorting and managing your to-do list
• The ability to import data from other genealogy programs, including Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, and Legacy Family Tree

• Quickly compare information you find on Ancestry with the data in your tree and use a merge wizard to selectively import new facts and records
• Take advantage of Ancestry Hints--a contextual search feature that automatically suggests records pertaining to people in your tree
• Back up your Family Tree Maker data by automatically creating a member tree on Ancestry (you can choose to share your tree with others or keep it private)
• Create heirloom-quality books using the new Ancestry Press self-publishing tool