Accessing Your Courses

Accessing Your Courses

See the instructions below for guidance on how to access courses on this website. These are meant to be very step-by-step for first-time users. At any point in the process, you can bookmark webpages in your browser for faster access in the future.  I have also...
Avoid These 5 Common Web Merge Mistakes

Avoid These 5 Common Web Merge Mistakes

Web Merge is one of my favorite features of Family Tree Maker. It offers convenience, efficiency, and accuracy, all of which make my genealogy research stronger. However, there are a few ways I misused this feature when I was first getting started. I would love to...
Getting Started with Family Book Creator

Getting Started with Family Book Creator

I always talk about how Family Book Creator is a magic wand that can create a family history book for you with just a few clicks. Well, voila! I recorded a quick 3-minute run-through of the process to prove it. In this video, I walk through opening FBC from Family...
How To Clean Up Your Family Tree

How To Clean Up Your Family Tree

One of my recommendations before writing a family history is to “clean up your tree”. What does that look like? Join me as I start work on my third family history book, based on my mother’s paternal grandmother, Lena Catherine Birenbaum. The first...