Review: Family Tree Maker (courier-journal.com)
October 8, 2005
Ric Manning has a review of Family Tree Maker for courier-journal.com (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky).
Quote from the Review:
Family Tree Maker deserves credit for making dry government data accessible to the growing number of genealogy hobbyists, even though it can be hard to tell when the program’s user-friendly features end and its salesmanship takes over.
He does touch on FTM’s trying to push you towards an Ancestry.com subscription.
Family Tree Maker 2006 in Stores
September 12, 2005
If you are are a current Family Tree Maker user, and want to upgrade, or you are planning on picking up Family Tree Maker 2006, and you haven’t ordered online, Family Tree Maker 2006 was released to retail stores in the USA and Canada today (whether they will be on the shelves today is unknown - several major retailers are still showing FTM 2005 in their stores with no sign of FTM 2006). Considering that a lot of software normally shows up on shelves on tuesdays (at least in the USA), chances are, that is when you’ll start seeing them.
From the Press Release
Encore, Inc., a leading interactive software publisher, and MyFamily.com, Inc., a leading network for connecting families, today announced the release of Family Tree Maker 2006® to the retail market in North America.
These are the different packages available for purchase:
Review: Family Tree Maker 2006 - Global Gazette
September 2, 2005
There is a review of Family Tree Maker 2006 in The Global Gazette, Canada’s Online Family History Magazine.
It’s a good overview of the new features, as well as how far Family Tree Maker has come since being bought by Ancestry.com.
