The goal is it to get everyone from family history “dabblers” to seasoned genealogists to enter their family tree data directly onto a family tree housed on the Ancestry website. If Ancestry didn’t do well in business, we wouldn’t have such easy and convenient access to all those records.ĭiscontinuing Family Tree Maker is a strategic move. In reality, I would wager to guess that this move is a cold, calculated business strategy, not a warm and sentimental retirement. We’ll also provide updates on our blog as needed leading up to January 1, 2017.” What this Means for Genealogists If you have inquiries regarding Family Tree Maker, please reach out to our Member Services team. These changes are never easy, but by focusing our efforts, we can concentrate on continuing to build great products for our loyal Ancestry community.
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We will also address major software bugs that may occur, as well as compatibility updates. During this time, all features of the software, including TreeSync™, will continue to work, and Member Services will be available to assist with user questions. Our subscription business and website, on the other hand, continue to grow and we are doubling down our efforts to make that experience even better for our Ancestry community.Īncestry will continue to support current owners of Family Tree Maker through January 1, 2017. With that, we’ve made the tough decision to stop selling Family Tree Maker as of December 31, 2015. True to this focus, we’ve taken a hard look at the declining desktop software market and the impact this has on being able to continue to provide product enhancements and support that our users need. As a company, we’re also continually evaluating ways to focus our efforts to provide the most impact and best product experience for our users through our core offerings. We remain dedicated to helping people gain new levels of understanding about their lives, and who and what led to them, harnessing the information found in family trees, historical records and genetics. We’ve also introduced new features such as Ancestry Academy and major advancements for AncestryDNA. In 2015, we’ve made 220 million searchable historical records from Mexico available, more than 170 million pages from the largest collection of U.S. “ Ancestry to Retire Family Tree Maker SoftwareĪncestry is proud to have made a significant investment this year to bring valuable new content and records to the Ancestry site.
Let’s start with the announcment that Ancestry released on their blog late Tuesday December 8, 2015, and then we’ll probe deeper: Perhaps it would be more accurate to visualize him being pushed out. I couldn’t help but think that Ancestry was striving to paint a picture of Family Tree Maker as Charles Coburn (in black and white of course) in his classic double-breasted suit, gold watch in hand, walking off into the sunset in a Jean Arthur movie. Today, however, our industry was hit between the eyes with this new reality.Īncestry has announced the “retirement” of one of the cornerstone products in genealogy, the Family Tree Maker desktop software. But the desktop moving to the Cloud has been a more subtle transition in the genealogy space. One of those is the desktop moving to the Cloud.Ĭertainly Adobe and Microsoft have already moved that direction by discontinuing physical software sales and moving to a Cloud based subscription service.
In it I not only outline 5 strategies that genealogists can use to cope and thrive in an ever-changing technological world, but I share 3 major areas that I believe genealogists should be aware of as we move into the future.
One of the presentations that is most near and dear to my heart is called Future Technology and Genealogy – 5 Strategies You Need. I travel the world presenting sessions on a wide range of genealogy topics. I hope you will invest the time to read it through to the end. I think this is a long post, but this is an extremely important topic.
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