> I've seen the comments about FTM before - seems like a bad case of > nerdiness hit the most recent version. > > I've also been less than happy with some of the changes at > ancestry.com, but have found workarounds - the first being to not > use the default search screen. > > John <news@picaxe.us> John- FTM 2008 isn't the latest version of FTM. 2009 is the current version and although I don't use FTM (I use RootsMagic) I've heard that FTM 2008 was intended to be a beginner version and should have been named as such--but that 2009 reverts more to the earlier full-featured FTM software. So the problems may be limited to FTM 2008. In any case, I prefer RootsMagic. <g> Joan JYoung6180@aol.com