> Unless someone knows of software that allows me to incorporate my > slave ancestry without resorting to an Excel spreadsheet, I'll stick > to Family Tree Maker. What are the aspects of your slave ancestry which make Family Tree Maker particularly suited to it? You might want to look at The Master Genealogist (http://www.whollygenes.com/), which will import your FTM database directly, and which is one of the more flexible and customizable family tree database managers. -- Joe Makowiec http://makowiec.org/ Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org/ Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid>