Family Tree Maker
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
Family Tree Maker is genealogy software for Windows & Mac. Originally developed by Banner Blue Software, was purchased by Broderbund in 1995. Versions 1-2 were under the Banner Blue title.
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File format
An encrypted SQLite database is used for version ??
.FTW format is based on the "OLE2" document container format. All FTW files contain a file within the OLE container call "GENERAL.DB". Version of software used to write the file is at byte 4 followed by the following ascii string. "File Format (C) Copyright 1993 Banner Blue Software Inc. - All Rights Reserved"
file extension by version
- Family Tree Maker versions 1 - 2 for Mac (.*FTMD or *.FTMM)
- Family Tree Maker versions 1 – 4 (*.FTW, *.FBK) 1989-1996
- Family Tree Maker versions 5 - 16 (*.FTW or *.FBK) 1998-2006
- Family Tree Maker 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 for Windows (*.FTM, *.FTMB)
- Family Tree Maker 3 for Mac (*.FTM, *.FTMB)
- Family Tree Maker 2010 and 2012 for Mac (*.FTMM, *.FTMD)
- Classic Family Tree Maker Files (*.ftw)
