Family Tree Maker® Connect (FTM Connect) is a companion app to the FTM 2024 desktop genealogy software. It allows you to view your own up-to-date Family Tree Maker tree on an iPhone or an iPad, view trees your relatives have shared with you, place Relative Hint™ sticky notes on any person in a tree and send them to your relatives on the fly.
Top Features:
• Take the latest up-to-date copy of your Family Tree Maker tree with you anywhere! Powered by TreeVault® cloud services.*
• Navigate easily through families and generations using the Family view (hourglass chart), or use the Index of Individuals — now with advanced options similar to those in Family Tree Maker version 2024.
• NEW! View and comment on Family Tree Maker trees your relatives share with you.** Sharing is totally risk-free, as trees can’t be edited via FTM Connect.
• NEW! Create a FREE TreeVault guest account directly from the FTM Connect login screen.
• NEW! Send hints to your relatives with Relative Hint sticky notes. Through the magic of TreeVault, the notes you place in FTM Connect are added instantly to the Source tree in Family Tree Maker version 2024, landing right on that person, next to Ancestry and Family Search hints. Or, if it’s your own tree, add “notes to self" on the fly.
• NEW! View and search through all your Sticky Notes in a handy browser, sorted by person.
• View Person Info with facts and color coding information from the Family Tree Maker tree, plus relationships, person and research notes, and Web links. Go to any related person's info right from the Relations tab.
• NEW! Identify yourself in a tree to see exactly how other people are related to you in Person Info views and Sticky Notes.
• NEW! Explore the collection of Famous Trees.
*Requires Family Tree Maker version 2024 desktop software, a TreeVault account, and an Antenna tree uploaded to TreeVault cloud services.
**Requires a FREE TreeVault guest account.
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What's New in Family Tree Maker Connect
2.0
December 21, 2024
• Improved design and usability
• Guest access to FTM trees others share with you
• New Relative Hint™ sticky notes and sticky note browser
• Enhanced Index of Individuals with more options
• Enhanced Person Info with more options
• Library of Famous Trees
• Improved login
• Guest account creation
• Improved tree downloading and updating
• Improved stability and performance
A very poor offering of a mobile app and getting worse
I reviewed this app previously and its shortcomings are still evident - it’s just a very basic viewer really and not much functionality. But now it won’t load my antenna tree at all - I get an error to say the process was not completed. I logged out and back in but same result. I don’t know if it’s to do with the forthcoming (maybe!) improvements to the mobile experience but I have had constant trouble with FTM on Windows seemingly losing connection with my antenna tree, not syncing, and only remedy is to keep replacing it. So maybe the whole backup system is breaking.
