For all customers who bought Version 8.0, 8.1 or 8.2, the update to Version 8.3 is completely free. Please open the Mac App Store on your Mac and check the Updates tab at the very top to download MacFamilyTree 8.3 for free. Be sure to use the same Apple ID / App Store account as with your original purchase. If the update does not show up, please restart the Mac. It happens that the App Store hangs and fails to display pending updates.

There will be times when one person in your tree is a relative in multiple ways – the direct line and some strange-sounding degree of kinship, that looks like an error. However, in most cases these kinships are both valid. If two cousins married a few generations ago, multiple relationships at the same time are the result. If you are absolutely sure that this cannot be the correct explanation, please check the family section in MacFamilyTree and look for empty or duplicate family entries. Delete entries you don’t want to keep and the multiple relationships should be gone. Hint: Deleting a family will not delete the family members, it just deletes the connections.

You cannot save, print, sync or export in MacFamilyTree’s demo version. Apart from that, all features including maps, charts, reports and import are available. Please not that it’s not possible to transfer data you entered in the demo version to the full version – even if you buy the full version while the demo version is still running. That’s unfortunately one Mac App Store limitation which forbids to convert a demo to a full version by purchasing it from the App Store. If you decide to buy MacFamilyTree from the Mac App Store, please delete the demo, it’s no longer required then.

MacFamilyTree 8 makes heavy use of Apple’s latest technologies. These are usually just available in more recent versions of Apple’s operating system. Therefore, MacFamilyTree won’t run on OS X 10.9 Mavericks or older. The only way to use MacFamilyTree is to download the older version 6 from our download section – and then to contact us. We can grant you access to version 6 until you have updated your Mac to OS X 10.10 or later.

MacFamilyTree 8 will automatically show all your trees in the start window. If you open one of these trees, MacFamilyTree converts it to the new version 8 file format. In case you cannot find you trees in MacFamilyTree 8’s start window, please open the old MacFamilyTree version again and export your tree to your hard drive (file menu, export as MacFamilyTree file). If you open this file with version 8, all your data is available and you can enjoy all of MacFamilyTree 8’s new features.