This version offered the ability to hold more information about your family while continuing to keep it organized and easy to find. Version 1.0 (September 1989)įamily Tree Maker Version 1.0 Read Me First Pamphletįamily Tree Maker Version 1.0 Brochure Family Tree Maker Version 1.0 (1989) Version 1.01 (April 1990)įamily Tree Maker Version 1.01 Supplement (This supplement was used with the Version 1.0 User Guide until supplies ran out.)įamily Tree Maker Version 1.01 User Guideįamily Tree Maker Version 1.01 User Guide B Version 2.0 (August 1991)įamily Tree Maker Version 2.0 was published in March, 1990. These innovations drove the sales volume to support sophisticated product development and the wealth of products you see in today’s family history marketplace.īelow are many of the key documents from Family Tree Maker’s early history. First to enable massive collaboration among users with the World Family Tree.First software to integrate searching for digitized family records with the user’s tree.First to start a large scale project to digitize family records.First family history software to enable organizing any quantity of any kind of information, including audio, photos, & video.

First to focus on an intuitive software user interface that would be successful in markets beyond the professional genealogist.

First to de-emphasize the word genealogy in favor of family history.

First to use professional, warm & welcoming packaging.

During the period from 1989 to 1997, the Family Tree Maker product line created the foundation for today’s multi-billion dollar family history industry:

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