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Family Tree Maker 2008 Deluxe (PC) | 
| From: Avanquest Software
Category: Software
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £30.75
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 566
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.8 x 2.1
EAN: 5016488116626
ASIN: B000VVIP8M
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Crammed full of features May 11, 2008
Brian D (Lancashire)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought my copy of FTM from the USA via ancestry.com website without it dawning on me that I could have ordered it from Amazon (cost a bit more, too. Doh!). Looking at the screenshots and reading other reviews, I am sure it's the same product, except mine came with a DVD tutorial and a CD full of old American postcard pictures; not particularly useful in my case, but interesting. br /I had dozens of names in my existing tree saved in a GedCom file and these were quickly imported into the program; I only had to make a couple of changes to date formats. Also, and I don't expect the UK version to be any different, the locations that were imported tended to be American; ie 'Birmingham' brought up a map of Alabama. These ambiguities are easily resolved by FTM, however. br /Searching the internet without having to exit the program is useful; it's on the same screen, so that you can enter details manually while looking at them. There is also a facility for pasting bits of web pages into your work. br /I don't know why it happens that names such as 'Higgins' are sometimes read as 'Biggins' despite it being clearly spelled with an H in the actual record, but it does. In other words, FTM is not a program that you can press a button, make a cup of tea, and have your family tree prepared when you get back. You have to do some investigation of your own. This might sound obvious to experienced researchers, but I have read reviews where an inability to find relatives is blamed on the program rather than the search engine being used, the fact that records might not exist, or anything else. br /FTM is full of features to allow you to collect and enter data, print and make presentations in a variety of ways, and in short do anything you would wish to do, without having a pile of paper to rummage through. It must be one of the best genealogy packages on the market...and at a price less than you would pay for a video game, with twice the fun! br /
 The good, the bad and the ugly May 4, 2008
Mrs. Gillian A. Stocker (Salisbury, Wiltshire United Kingdom)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I can understand the disparity between the reviews received to date. br /The good is the data entry page, and charting pages which are a vast improvement over previous versions of FTM. br /The bad is that the program still severely restricts how you enter data, particularly dates. With a lot of my research I only need to record the year and quarter, but you cannot enter Q1 1925 for example. br /The downright ugly is the "manual" that is provided with the software. The square root of useless comes to mind. I had a problem printing a family tree as important data was not being printed on the right hand side, due to the predetermined print size. After some hours I finally managed to resolve the problem. Was there any help in the manual-not even a mention.
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