Using FTM 2019, you may now download a branch of the FamilySearch Family Tree to your computer and generate the new Family Tree Maker tree. It will match all persons in your new FTM tree to the same persons in FamilySearch Family Tree. That is, you will no longer need to look up your family members on FamilySearch every time; instead, the FamilySearch hints to historical records of these people will be displayed in Family Tree Maker. To learn more about matched individuals, visit the article “Matching a Person” on FamilySearch.
Creating a New Tree from FamilySearch in FTM 2019 for Mac
- Check to see that you are logged in to FamilySearch in FTM 2019.
- The Plan workspace can be opened by clicking the Plan button on the main toolbar.
- Click Download a Tree in the New Tree tab of FamilySearch.
- Choose Select Me to make the home person you (the FamilySearch person also known as the one in the account you are logged in to in Family Tree Maker), or store the correct FamilySearch person record ID otherwise, and Person ID.
- In the field Number of ancestor generations, enter the number of generations of your ancestors you want in your new tree, including the home person in that count. On the Number of descendant generations field, enter the number of generations of descendants of the home person you want in your new tree, including the home person in that count.
- Suppose you wish to incorporate the descendants of individual ancestors, too. Be certain the Include box is checked and enter a figure in number in the generations of descendants of ancestors box. The choice in terms of 2 generations of descendants will include the children and the grandchildren of every ancestry, and so forth. Leave the option unselected, and then the ancestors you include will be restricted to only those directly ascending in line to the home person.
- If so, type in a good name (tree file Name) in the New tree name field.
- Your tree file will, by default, be stored in a Family Tree Maker folder in your Documents folder. Click New Tree Location to save the tree file in a different folder, in case you want to.
- Click Continue.
Create a New Tree from FamilySearch in FTM 2019 for Windows
- Be sure to be logged into FamilySearch within FTM 2019.
- To get into the Plan workspace, click on the Plan button, located at the main toolbar.
- In New Tree, then click Download a Tree on FamilySearch.
- New FTM tree person. Choose Me when you want the home person to be you (the FamilySearch person assigned to the account you are logged in to in Family Tree Maker), or Person ID, then type in the corresponding FamilySearch Person ID in the person you want it to be.
- A fixed number of generations of both the ancestors and descendants of the home person will make up your new tree; therefore fill in the desired number of generations of ancestry and the number of the descendants in the Number of ancestor generations and Number of descendant generations fields respectively.
- In case you would like subsequent generations of some ancestor to be also included, make sure the Include descendants of ancestors option is checked and type some number in the Generations of descendants to include field. Selecting 2 generations of descendants will mean that they select the children and the grandchildren of the respective ancestor, and so forth. Then, when adding only those above along the direct ascending line of the home person, leave that option unchecked.
- The tree file name, in the New tree name field could be changed, in the event that it is necessary.
- Your tree file is saved by default to a Family Tree Maker folder in your Documents folder. To change the location to which you will save the tree file, click File Location.
- Click Continue.
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