I am pretty sure FO was one of the first programs to allow a note for each fact. There are still major programs which don't allow this. Then the follow-through on the way the facts are used in the book report. Your report is really only limited by the number of facts you can find and enter. Alot of people complain about the mechanical sentences, but the truth of the matter is, when you are doing a book about a couple of hundred people, your sentences get a bit mechanical--might as well let a machine do it. I once went to a lecture about publishing a genealogy book and I remember the exhaustive, and exhausting, description of the details necessary just to make an index by hand. Bruce might not have been the originator of the idea of an index, but FO does it well. The other thing I like is the consistent use of short cut keys. A lot of other programs do not follow through to nearly every action with these. I sort of resent the lack of details on Rootsmate. Is it going to have the details I like or not? Since it sounds like our favorite program is being dropped, do we have to start looking for a replacement or not?