The Family Search feature is no longer working correctly in your v15 software. This update is designed to repair that issue. The update will replace your v15 with a new v16 – Family Tree Heritage Gold program.

You will be receiving V16 FREE. A Bonus for you is the new version has some NEW features. They are:

Version 16 allows you to record non-traditional, same sex couple relationships. For version 16, Family Tree Heritage separates the type of relationship from the status of the relationship. Relationship types now are Married, Not Married, Common Law, and de facto. The status of a relationship can be 'blank', indicating an ongoing relationship, or it could have terminated as Divorced, Separated or Annulled.

A much-requested new feature, the Descendants view joins the Pedigree, Family, Name List, Individual, and Timeline view tabs along the top of the program. This gives you yet another way to view and navigate the records within your database.

You can click on the various buttons to the right or left of individuals to navigate, including the special left arrow next to the main person, which will let you change the focus to a parent. You can select 1, 2 or 3 generations of descendants, then expand selected lines up to 6 generations deep.

When you are adding or editing other/custom events within the Edit Individual screen, you can now share (copy) an event with other individuals in your database. For example, after finding a family of 10 on a census record, you can go to one member of the family, add a “Residence” other event to indicate that the person lived in that location on the date of the census, and attach a census source to the Residence event. You can then Share that event and source quickly with the other 9 members of the family, without having to individually add the Residence event to each record.

For many charts, you can now include a background image. The background image can be placed on these reports:

• Pedigree
• Fan
• Ancestry (Standard and Wallchart)
• Descendant (Standard, Wallchart and Dropline chart)
• Line of Descent
• Calendar
• Timeline

The image can be displayed with various opacity levels. You can even move background images around on the chart.

Under the Tools menu, there is a new tool to add or remove a country name from all places in your file. For example, you can add “United States” to all states or remove “United States” or “Canada” from all states or provinces.

You can select any image (or other scrapbook item), which is a part of the Scrapbook of one record in your file, and share (copy) that media item with the scrapbook of other records in your file.

Prior to version 16, you could record the LDS ordinances of LDS Confirmation and Initiatory only as Other Events. Version 16 now gives you an option to record these in the same form with other LDS ordinances.

Family Tree Heritage v16 User's Guide
Family Tree Heritage Data Transfer Guide