Family Tree Maker Community Workshop

From syncing to safeguarding a family tree

Family Tree Maker Executive Director Duff Wilson and Genealogy Community Ambassador Mark Olsen will demonstrate Family Tree Maker 2024 and offer guidance on syncing a tree with Ancestry. The library also lists protecting research and sharing discoveries with relatives among the workshop’s subjects.

Eventbrite gives more detail on possible topics: TreeVault’s Emergency Tree restore service, which it describes as keeping a current cloud copy, and Next of Kin, a feature intended to help pass family-history research to the next generation. These examples put backup and succession alongside the immediate task of keeping trees aligned; the listing does not assign separate times to each subject.

The advertised software tips include shortcuts, workspace customization and ways to simplify routine tasks. For someone already building a research habit, those workflow adjustments offer a different kind of help from syncing or backup: making everyday work in the program easier to manage.

Further reading: Family Tree Maker Community Workshop | Dallas Public Library ↗ · FAMILY TREE MAKER event in Dallas, TX Tickets, Monday, November 9  •  2 PM - 5 PM | Eventbrite ↗

Demonstrations, with room for questions

Eventbrite says Wilson and Olsen have each used Family Tree Maker for decades in their own genealogy research. Their session combines demonstrations with practical guidance drawn from that experience, rather than presenting the software only as a list of features.

A live Q&A is part of the plan, and the presenters expect to stay at the end to take questions. Attendees can also enter for a chance to win prizes, including copies of Family Tree Maker 2024; the listing does not promise a copy to every participant.

Further reading: Family Tree Maker Community Workshop | Dallas Public Library ↗ · FAMILY TREE MAKER event in Dallas, TX Tickets, Monday, November 9  •  2 PM - 5 PM | Eventbrite ↗