Our May 22nd session focused on
     (1) Ancestry updates and
     (2) Creating a book with Family Tree Maker. 

We reviewed several new tools provided by Ancestry.com (1) TreeTags for use with your trees, (2) New DNA Matching tools and (3) DNA Thrulines.  If you are interested in these updates, please review the slides used for last nights meeting on Ancestry updates: Click here.

We then spent time reviewing how to create a book using Family Tree Maker.  Each person used their own computers to build a sample book.  They had experimented with Family Tree Maker using the knowledge and slides from our May 8th meeting and came with excellent questions.  Everyone who had Family Tree Maker finished the meeting with their own sample book and a strategy to start using the various "collections" in Publish to start creating pdf files or printouts of their work.  All paid members of our club received the instructions from the 8th May meeting.

During our 8 May session we did a quick overview of the Four Genealogy Giants, with emphasis on each of their strengths and data.

The main topic for this meeting was to "Create a book" using Family Tree Maker.  We went through each of the steps for creating the title page, table of contents, photo pages, pedigree charts, descendant charts, index and much more.  There is tremendous power are your fingertips to pull out of Family Tree Maker a great printed book of pdf file for sharing with your family (free).  I will send a pdf file of the presentation (steps) to all the 2019 paid members of our genealogy club.  All of our attendees with laptops at the meeting created their own example book along the way.  There was a quick overview for using Ancestry "MyCanvas" online book creation and also using the plug-in from Family Book Creator to automatically generate a book from Family Tree Maker - both of these options do cost money ($).

At our next meeting we will review "Create a book" using Family Tree Maker, answering questions.

We had a great class today to discuss and Family Tree Maker (FTM) and how to create books or manuscripts from FTM.  Also, how to use MyCanvas (part of Ancestry) for online publishing and "Family Book Creator" as a plug in to FTM for producing books.  Our major focus was on how to use FTM to create your own customize book or pdf file.  If you are interested in the handout or guide on how to do this, please send bakerlynnd@gmail.com an email and he will send you the presentation used at todays session.

Keep exploring your family past and fun new discoveries.

Lynn Baker
845-242-2344