Hi all: I have used FTM for many years now and have found Ver.8.0 and 16 to be the best of the lot. I started with the DOS version many years ago. At present I have 133,000+ indivs. and about 2500+ pics scanned in. Ver 16 continues to work well, altho a bit slower now of course. I have a problem when typing in notes in the indiv's scrapbook. It is very vexing, and likely easily fixed, but it is driving me nutso at present. Sometimes when I type in a long document, say a Biography, and after having it spell-checked, the program will not exit back to the basic input screen when I click OK. Basically it just sits there looking at me, and the only work around that works for me is to copy all the text and save it in a word processor for future re-insertion, as when rebooting up, the text I did type in is of course gonzo, completely. I can usually reinsert the text from the word pro file, but not always. I have most of the data saved on an external harddrive, and backup daily. I also put a back-up on line at genealogy.com, where I can safe data for $10/year. Cheap really. As I said, this is really, really vexing sometimes, as after a long period of time inputting a lot of text, the darn software lets me down! Ideas anyone? I presently have 2 Gb RAM and an Alluratek external HD. Regards, Gordon