Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting up your family tree, Family Tree Maker 2012 can help you create a family tree faster, easier and better than ever before. The end result is a family history that you and your family will treasure for years to come.

About Nova:
Founded in 1984, Nova Development is a leading developer and publisher of consumer software products for Windows and Macintosh platforms. An unwavering commitment to imaginative software programs and the rich content included with them has put Nova in the leading market share position in more than a dozen software categories.
As part of the Avanquest Group, Nova is among the largest publishers in the United States of software products geared exclusively to consumers and small businesses and has a history of providing new technologies that consistently expand the uses of desktop computers for a wide variety of users.

Overview:
Whether you're a seasoned pro, or just starting your family tree, Family Tree Maker Essentials will help you create a family tree faster, easier and better than ever before. The software seamlessly integrates your search for ancestors with over 5 billion U.S. records on Ancestry.com, the world's largest online collection of immigration & marriage records, census data, news stories, photo archives and other family trees. The end result is a family history that will be treasured for years to come

With Family Tree Maker Essentials You Can:
Organize your family story privately and conveniently on your PC.
Access billions of U.S. immigration, marriage, military, census records and more via a
1-month membership to Ancestry.com.
Incorporate photos, documents, audio and video into your tree. Even create slideshows.
Publish beautiful keepsakes and books to share with friends and family.

What's New in Family Tree Maker Essentials?
Get started quickly with an enhanced, easy-to-use interface.
Build your tree more easily with upgraded help topics and video tutorials.
Print more informative family trees by including generation labels & text boxes.
Easily sync your desktop tree with your Ancestry.com tree.
Update and share your tree from any Internet connection with TreeSync.
View combined families, including step families & adoptees, at a glance.