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Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials [OLD VERSION]

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Encore
EAN: 0705381148401
Feature: Software for exploring, preserving, and sharing family history
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Encore Software
Manufacturer: Encore Software
Model: 14840
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Encore Software
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Studio: Encore Software

Features
Software for exploring, preserving, and sharing family history Build a family tree starting with names, dates, and events Attach photos, documents, and audio and video files Design and print charts to display at home and share with family Includes 1 month of premium access to ancestry.com

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Editorial Reviews:
Build your family tree. Preserve your familylegacy. Millions of people have used Family Tree Maker, the #1 selling genealogy software, to discover and share their family stories. Now, with an intuitive new interface and dozens of new features - making it easier than ever to explore your roots. Family history is a fun, rewarding hobby that connects you with your past and brings you closer to your present family. Just getting started? Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials will make it easy for you to explore and preserve your family heritage. Already and expert? You will appreciate the program's robust features, including flexible data-management options and wide variety of output choices. Family Tree Maker 2008 Essentials lets you easily: Explore your heritage Preserve family stories, photos and more Create beautiful charts to display and share Essentials Edition total retail value: $140 Family Tree Maker integrates seamlessly with Ancestry.com, allowing you to easily access the world's largest online collection of family history records. Ancestry.com is home to many different types of records, including census, military, immigration, land and probate records, just to name a few. Create a family tree starting with names, dates and events. Attach photos, documents and audio and video files. Find information on the Web and merge it into your family tree. Use dynamic maps to explore the places where your ancestors once lived.

Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Only so-so Comment: This product gets the basics done, but is somewhat cumbersome to use, and my copy did not connect to the internet like it was supposed to. I would not recommend this particular version. Customer Rating: Summary: UNSTABLE Comment: I finally got used to the new format of FTM 2008 and 2009. What I cannot get used to is that the program frequently closes for no apparent reason and gives me an error message. The folks at FTM/Ancestry instructed me to go into a particular directory and delete a certain folder and restart the program. That solved the problem for a short time and it recurred. In fact, the last time I used FTM 2009 it shut down right AFTER I had just applied the fix. These are the most UNSTABLE versions of FTM I have ever used. Customer Rating: Summary: Older versions offer more Comment: Many of the reports, views, etc. from the older version are missing in this version. Available reports cannot be customized as much as in the older version. Printing is a nightmare, and apparently impossible with a wide format printer-which my old version handled just fine. I uninstalled it and went back to the old version I purchased 4 years ago. Customer Rating: Summary: Family Tree Maker Comment: The whole family is using this product and we love it. We have over 1000 family members listed going back to the 1300's. Customer Rating: Summary: Great product but be patient Comment: Overall a great program but needs to be more user friendly. Do not expect to understand how to use this program in one day. I would give it a week because the manual is not clear in it's instructions nor is the Help link. However once you do figure it out, it is a very powerful and useful program. My frustration began when I could not register the product. I had to call Ancestry.com's Tech Support and they had be download an update Patch that needed for it to work right because my FTM 2008 was one of the older ones with gliches. It works great now and I cannot complain. Another challenge is when you have to add siblings that share a common ancestor which if you are like me wanting to include multiple ancestral lines for all, you have to check preferred parent in the far right dialog box or you will become very frusrtated. It took me 2 days to figure that out. This program can be very user friendly if it had better instructions.

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