| Developer(s) | MyHeritage |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 7.0 / Apr 2013 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Available in | Multilingual 40 languages |
| Type | Genealogy software |
| License | Freeware and retail (Premium version) |
| Website | www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder |
Family Tree Builder (FTB) is genealogy software to create family trees. The free download version is distributed as freeware, with no restrictions, although registration is required to run the software. Users may pay a fee to "unlock" the additional features in the Premium version. The free download version may thus be considered a kind of registerware and crippleware. Users may add birth, death, and marriage dates; notes about where their ancestors lived, their profession, hobbies and interests; and picture of ancestors. The program can also create charts that show how two people are related. Users can build their family tree either offline or on a secure online site, and offline trees can be published to a family site.
FTB has a Smart Matching feature, which searches the MyHeritage database looking for family tree profiles that match. The program checks the name, birth date, and parents of the entries in the database, and when it finds similar tree profiles, tells the user who created each tree, who may then confirm the match or not. This allows people to share their family trees and genealogy research with the entire MyHeritage community. Genealogists can find other family historians who have common ancestors, and fill in holes in their family tree that other people have completed. Other aspects of FTB include automatic face detection technology, a maps module based on integration with Google Maps, and Smart Research - a technology to research the family tree's individuals in key genealogy databases.
In April 2013, MyHeritage released the latest version of Family Tree Builder 7.0 including new features such as synchronization, unicode and Record Matches.
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