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.
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.
Review: PhpGedView (Eastman’s)
September 13, 2005
Dick Eastman, from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, has published a review of PhpGedView.
PhpGedView is a genealogy program that allows you to view and edit genealogy data that is stored on your personal web site. While the program runs on a web server that might be many miles from where you are sitting, PhpGedView allows you to edit the data and run reports almost as if you were sitting in front of the hosting computer. You open a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.), connect to the web server, and edit your genealogy data as you wish. You can import data from GEDCOM files, manually add or edit data, or even add multimedia files, such as photos and document images. You can also run reports.
One of the most comprehensive PhpGedView reviews around, including online hosting companies that support PhpGedView, as well as mentioning the privacy issues that will inevitably come up when publishing genealogy data online.
