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Offline netnet

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family tree maker 11
« on: Saturday 20 March 04 09:53 GMT (UK) »
I've just ordered family tree maker 11 can anyone tell me if it's any good.
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Re:family tree maker 11
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 20 March 04 20:33 GMT (UK) »
I have family tree maker 10 and I haven't any problems with it.

Some people dislike FTM due to its Americanised wording, but on the whole I am happy with it.

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Re:family tree maker 11
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 21 March 04 12:22 GMT (UK) »
I have recently updated from FTM8.0 to FTM11 and have found the upgrade most worthwhile.

I have been using FamilyTreeMaker for four years and have had few problems.

Elizabeth
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Re: family tree maker 11
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 14 March 06 08:51 GMT (UK) »
I found FTM 11 very good. I have now upgraded to FTM 2005 and this is even better. If you use ancestry then there is an automatic web search for people from FTM 2005. I now see FTM 2006 is being advertised. Is it worth upgrading?

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Re: family tree maker 11
« Reply #4 on: Monday 20 March 06 20:32 GMT (UK) »
FTM is a very simple program, and works well if you just want a basic record of the family. But don't look to be able to do much beyond that.

It fails when it comes to a number of points...there is a website that spells out many of the problems - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/5802/WARTS/index.html

Most genie software (eg Legacy) will be due for major revision soon, brought on by proposed changes to Microsoft software. This is the time to have your say, if you want.

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Re: family tree maker 11
« Reply #5 on: Monday 20 March 06 22:14 GMT (UK) »
I have ftm 2005 but someone has given me a tree in the 2006 version my version will not view it can it be converted????
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Re: family tree maker 11
« Reply #6 on: Monday 20 March 06 23:46 GMT (UK) »
Not directly (FTM keep moving the goalposts). Ask the giver to make a GEDCOM file from their data, and send you that. It should work, but no guarantees....

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Re: family tree maker 11
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 28 May 06 18:02 BST (UK) »
I'm still using FTW 6 and I will not be buying anymore upgrades.  It seems to me that you are locked into buying upgrades for the rest of your life.  Personally I've decided to write my own software in Javascript and HTML so that it can be read by anyone with a browser.  Cost = £0.

Obviously that is not a solution that everyone can do as not everyone wants to or is able to write their own software.

In addition to bringing out a new version every year they also have another money making wheeze.  After entering your data you may get prompted to send a copy of your family tree to the World Family Tree program out in cyber space.  I did this a few years ago (naively).  I thought I might have a look at what I contributed a few years back when my tree only had a couple of hundred names in it.  Guess what?  I am not allowed to see the data I have contributed unless I take out a subscription with a company called genealogy.com.  So not only did I spend a lot of time and money gathering the data they also got my data free of charge and now want to charge me access my own data!

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Re: family tree maker 11
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 22 June 06 07:45 BST (UK) »
Get a free copy of Legacy. Its modest, but has few problems. You don't really need the full version...and if you want, you can make all the reports you want because the data is stored in Microsoft Access database format.

Paul
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