What's new in MacFamilyTree 8.3

What's new in MacFamilyTree 8

New Interactive Tree

• Much improved layout
• Beautiful new look
• Navigate, add and enter persons faster than ever
• Better FamilySearch integration
• Force Touch supported
• Completely configurable
• Display up to 8 generations of ancestors and descendants at once, including brothers & sisters
• Support for Metal 2 when running on macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
• Full keyboard control for browsing the Interactive Tree

CloudTree Sync & Share

• Sync your family tree to all your Macs, iPhones and iPads
• Invite friends & family to build your family tree
• Participants can either be invited with read-only or read and write privileges
• Complete privacy – only you decide who can see or edit your family tree
• Works on broadband as well as on cellular internet connections
• Near-realtime sync of changes to your family tree to all your devices

Completely new user interface

• Much better usage of screen space
• Configurable functions layout
• Hide functions you do not use often
• Quick keyboard navigation
• Global back and forward history similar to a web browser
• New database management window

New & Improved Charts

• Many configurable style options to choose from
• Customize line styles, shadow styles, coloring, fonts…
• New fractal charts: Fractal Tree, Fractal H-Tree, Fractal Circular Tree, Fractal Symmetric Tree, Fractal Horizontal/Vertical Tree
• Much improved chart editor with new user interface
• Easier & more efficient pagination options to print posters & wallpapers
• Greatly improved performance

Smart Filters

• See only relevant entries from your database you’re currently focusing on
• Create and save complex search filters (all living women in Texas)
• Available for Persons, Families, Sources, Places and ToDos
• Also available for most reports to create specialized reports from a subset of persons from your tree

Powerful new Sidebar Lists

• Completely redesigned Person, Family, Place, Source and ToDo sidebar lists
• Much improved search options
• Configurable grouping/sectioning options (for example by birth place, last name, creation date and so on)
• Sorting options greatly enhanced
• Available in the Edit, Views and Reports sections

Custom Event & Fact types

• Create your own Person Events, Facts or Family Events, and record any kind of information
• All reports and views adapted to display custom events and fact types
• Hide event and fact types you do not use often
• Easily import data from other genealogy apps
• More default event and fact types added
• Improved management of event icons

Improved edit mode

• Adjustable font size for all edit sections
• Improved keyboard navigation
• Improved event, fact and source lists
• Optionally larger sizes for parents, partners and children above and below the edit view
• Better readability
• Better performance

Change Log

• All changes in your database are recorded for further reference
• Keep track of when you worked on which records
• See all change log entries for a specific person or family directly in the edit sections

Much improved performance

• All parts of MacFamilyTree & MobileFamilyTree heavily optimized
• Improved memory usage

GEDCOM support

• Much improved compatibility with other apps
• Better handling of custom GEDCOM tags from other genealogy apps
• Improved importing performance
• Detailed error reporting
• Improved and configurable character encoding detection

Navigation Timeline

• Quickly see and select persons related to the person you are currently editing
• See when events happened in a person’s lifetime
• Available in all edit functions

Plausibility testing

• Checks for many different kinds of data integrity problems like „buried before death“
• Available for the Interactive Tree or when editing persons or families

Improved places management

• Map added to check if the selected place is the correct one
• Improved automatic batch coordinate lookup
• Rewritten places merge including automatic merge suggestions
• Downloaded entries from FamilySearch automatically contain coordinates for events

Improved FamilySearch integration

• Auto-Login option added
• Improved performance when matching and downloading persons
• Support for more event types

New database merge & duplicate detection

• Merge GEDCOM files and MacFamilyTree files to your current family tree
• Detects persons, families, sources and places present in both files in order to avoid duplicates
• Decide on a entry-by-entry case which information to preserve
• Search for duplicate persons, families, places or sources in your family tree
• When duplicate entries are found, merge these entries while preserving family connections

Other

• Unknown gender option added
• Charts & Reports options revamped for better numerical input
• More sorting & grouping options for the Person List report
• Name Distribution can now be displayed for first name
• Labels can now be displayed in all charts
• New Events & Facts statistic chart added
• New search sites added to the Web Research feature
• Performance of the Media Gallery improved
• Improved import from Apple’s Photos app
• Person List Report option added to separate name components into different columns
• New user manual