

On December 5, 2015, announced that it would no longer be selling their genealogy program, Family Tree Maker and will be retiring the product.

Family Tree DNA is a DNA testing company that does NOT provide genealogy software and DOES provide an extensive array of DNA testing products and tools, such as autosomal DNA through their Family Finder product, similar to the AncestryDNA product.They don’t share any functionality and their only commonality is that Ancestry owns them both. ’s DNA product offering, AncestryDNA, and their genealogy software program, Family Tree Maker, are in no way connected to each other.also offers a DNA testing product called AncestryDNA that tests your autosomal DNA and provides you with a list of DNA matches.Family Tree Maker is a genealogy software package to track your genealogy information and it is owned by.

I wish very much that the names of Family Tree DNA and Family Tree Maker weren’t so similar, because it has created a lot of confusion over the years and that confusion has intensified this past week with ’s announcement that they are discontinuing support of their genealogy software package, Family Tree Maker.
