Tips – Legacy & Family Tree Maker
October 24, 2005
Two quick and easy tips today about customizing views in Family Tree Maker and Legacy Family Tree.
Ancestry.com has a tip about customizing the Family Tree Maker Toolbar to display an icon for the research journal.
Legacy News has a tip about choosing your start-up view.
Family Tree Maker 2005 & 2006
October 22, 2005
I was in a computer retail store where I noticed that both Family Tree Maker 2005 and Family Tree Maker 2006 were available, side by side, for the same price. I watched a salesman try to push the 2005 product onto somebody. It’s one thing if FTM 2005 was cheaper, but if you are going to pay the same price either way, you might as well get the newer version. Why FTM 2005 is still selling for the same price in some stores is beyond me.
-D
Review: Family Tree Maker 2006 – Philadelphia Inquirer
October 17, 2005
John J. Fried has written a review for the Philadelphia Inquirer that covers Family Tree Maker 2006.
From the review:
Diving into Family Tree Maker, you can see why it has managed to survive 15 years in the tumultuous software world and why it probably is the most popular program around.
He mentions the same thing that another review that we published earlier this month (by Ric Manning – courier-journal.com) does:
Unfortunately, even buying the most expensive version does not completely spare you the continuing and truly irritating efforts by the program’s publishers to sell you ancillary goods and services.
