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Stambeam

Switching from Family Tree Maker

From Family Tree Maker to Stambeam, in a few minutes.

Export your entire file from Family Tree Maker as GEDCOM and read it into Stambeam. You see what comes in first, and your tree in Family Tree Maker stays where it is.

Try it free for 30 days

Try it free for 30 days. Your tree in Family Tree Maker stays where it is.

The import window with a preview of the people being read in

How to bring your tree over

In Family Tree Maker

Export the entire file, not just selected people.

  1. 1
    Choose File, Export and then Entire file.
  2. 2
    Choose GEDCOM as the output format.
  3. 3
    Leave Privatize living people off, or names and facts of living people disappear.
  4. 4
    Choose UTF-8 at Character set if you can, click OK and save the file.

With Include Media files the references go along. Put the media folder of your tree next to the .ged file.

In Stambeam

  1. 1
    Choose File, Import.
    Pick the file you just made. Nothing changes yet.
  2. 2
    Check the preview and import.
    You see how many people, families, sources and photos are in it. Click Import; just before, Stambeam makes a copy of your tree.
  3. 3
    Keep or undo.
    If it looks right, carry on straight away. If not, everything is back the way it was.

Data Stambeam does not know is kept and goes along unchanged when you export to GEDCOM.

All the details on switching from Family Tree Maker

What Stambeam does differently

Your own tree, with a few new possibilities.

Theories in a branchNot sure about a link? Work it out in a scratch copy of your tree. If it holds, merge it; if not, throw the branch away.
Everything on your own computerNo account and no cloud. Your tree lives on your own computer, and Stambeam works offline.
Map and timelineSee on the map or the globe where your family lived and how they moved. The timeline puts a life next to what happened in the world.
Windows, Mac and phoneStambeam runs on Windows and Mac. With a hub you have your tree on your phone too, even without signal in the archive.

Stambeam on the Mac · Try the demo

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