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📣My Family Tree 15 now available

Today we are excited to announce the release of My Family Tree 15 available now from the latest updates page.

This release contains several new features and changes in the following areas:

  • Finding family tree files
  • Identifiers (IDs)
Finding family tree files

In this release, you can now search a device for family tree files, meaning you will no longer need to worry about misplacing a file.  Besides support for familyx files and GEDCOM, the search will also detect a wide range of other genealogy data formats which are supported by direct import (see Importing a database).

File search results
Identifiers (IDs)

My Family Tree has always provided round-trip support for a plethora of different identifiers found in genealogy data, from Ancestral File Numbers to universally unique identifiers. Now in this release, you can view any identifiers that have been assigned to a record (something previously only possible by examining the GEDCOM output) as well as add new ones and edit existing ones.

  • You may generate additional UIDs or replace the primary UID assigned to a record. UIDs must conform to RFC4122.  It is recommended to use the generator to create and format UIDs.
  • You may add external ids used by other systems (e.g. FindAGrave, BillionGraves, WikiTree, or FamilySearch).  There is built in support for the EXIDs registered at gedcom.io).
  • You can also add any number of user defined references.
This feature is currently supported for person, family, source, repository, author, multimedia, note, name, fact, place, and citation record types.

IDs
Other notable improvements
  • The application now supports direct import of Brother's Keeper files (versions 5, 6, and 7), Legacy 10 files, and RootsMagic 10 files (in additional to all previous versions).
  • A Latvian translation has been added.
  • The Danish, Croatian, Hungarian, and Turkish translations have been updated.
  • For select lunisolar calendars, you can now enter the related Gregorian year and era to avoid manual conversion from the traditional epoch of the calendar.
  • Further support for legacy GEDCOM files has been implemented.
  • Minor refinements have been made to some reports.  Some column ordering has been changed to be chronological (birth, marriage, death rather than birth, death, marriage), and the columns included in all tables of relatives are now customisable.
  • This release is the third to use the modern .NET Desktop Runtime, following the initial release in November 2023.  You will find that this update brings further performance enhancements to the application.
  • We continue to support the new GEDCOM 7 and GEDZIP formats as these begin to see wider use in genealogy apps and services.  Minor refinements have been made to take account of the ongoing development of GEDCOM 7.
Community translations

My Family Tree is available in over 30 languages spanning every continent in the world.  Over 60 users have helped to translate My Family Tree, whilst also engaging with the development team to ensure that local specific grammar is handled correctly.  As new features are added, inevitably, translations become less complete, but most languages require only minimal work to complete.  If you can help, check out the Localisation Toolkit or get in touch.

Upgrading from earlier versions

My Family Tree requires the Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 9.0 or later which is supported on Windows 11, and Windows 10 (20H2 and later).
Users of the Microsoft Store version of My Family Tree will automatically receive the update.  For all other users the new version is available now ....

Published 16 Mar 2025 11:00