Phil Warn <[email protected]> wrote: >I am confused! I go to the formalsoft site and see talk about Family >Origins 10. So who does make/market FO? I have version 9. > >http://www.formalsoft.com/features.htm is the site to which I went. > >Is the situation different each side of the Pond? Bruce Buzbee is Formal Soft. He wrote Family Origins and is the sole owner of it. But Genealogy.com now has the exclusive rights to distribute and market Family Origins. Bruce can sell you a copy of Family Origins but in order to do so, he must buy the CD's from Genealogy.com just like any other reseller. And he doesn't make very much profit from selling it. Genealogy.com also owns and sells Family Tree Maker which seems to be their "fair haired child" while, from all appearances, Family Origins is more like their "red headed step child", and I believe they would like to see it go away. For example, if you live in Australia and order FO from genealogy.com they will likely charge you about $35 US just for shipping charges on top of the price of the program. If you order it from Bruce at FormalSoft.com, he will charge you $5 for shipping the same CD to Australia. Bruce is in the process of writing a completely new genealogy program called RootsMate. He says it will be out by the end of the year. It is not clear whether or not there will be a version 11 of Family Origins. This is a summary of the information on this subject that has appeared in parts on this list in the past. Wayne League