Family Tree Maker

Latest revision as of 14:20, 25 January 2020

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. Versions 3-4 under Broderbund. Versions 5-7 under The Learning Company, then Ancestry.com from versions 7.5 to 2014. Ancestry sold product to MacKiev in 2014.

[edit] 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"

[edit] file extension by version

• Family Tree Maker versions 1 - 2 for Mac (.*FTMD or *.FTMM)
• Family Tree Maker DOS versions 1 – 4 (*.FTM) 1989-1995
• Family Tree Maker Windows versions 1 – 4 (*.FTW, *.FBK) 1993-1997
• Family Tree Maker versions 5 - 16 (*.FTW or *.FBK) 1998-2006^[1]
• Family Tree Maker 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 for Windows (*.FTM, *.FTMB (Zip compressed FTM))
• Family Tree Maker 3 for Mac (*.FTM, *.FTMB)
• Family Tree Maker 2010 and 2012 for Mac (*.FTMM, *.FTMD)
• Classic Family Tree Maker Files (*.ftw)

[edit] Software

• 14-Day trial of FTM 2005 SE for migrating older FTM files
• Family Tree Maker File Migration Utility
• Program to "tweak" FTM Gedcom files to be closer to 5.5 Standard
• FTM Windows 2.0 Demo software

[edit] References

• Family Tree Maker - wikipedia
• Ancestry - wikipedia
• SQLite for Genealogy Software
• Family Tree Maker 2017 for Windows Migration Guide
• Ken Hess (Creator) Documentation

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110720091645/http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/08/family_tree_mak.html