HI Last night I downloaded the trial version. I went to my FTM 4.4 and in a couple of minutes made a gedcom of my file of about 12,000 names. I imported the gedcom into Cumberland. On the import box in Cumberland I checked all the option boxes. I believe there were six of them. It took almost 6 hours for Cumberland to read and open the gedcom. It was painstakenly slow reading each individual file and marriage on pass 1 and then doing the same thing basically on pass 2. The third process had a warning that it may take awhile for large files and to be patient, but this process was much faster than the first 2. Perhaps this lengthy several hour process is not normal and I checked one too many task boxes, causing the big delay. I sure hope so. Also it did not pick up all the children in one of my families. It had them all in the individual list, but stopped at 5 children for that marriage when my FTM file had 9 children. I then spent about an hour playing with correcting this. Although the missing children were in the database and had no parents listed(it had "add parent") when I would try to connect that child I would get a response that the child already had parents. Drove me crazy. I just then made up a parent and added it, then disconected it, then connected the child to the right parents. Also, when you make a mistake(I have been known to make a few) you are stuck with it. There is often no "cancel" button on some of the dialog boxes. Now for the good part. Although I am just beginning to use the program, I love the tree displays. Wish there were a "print" box option. Stan