I just saw at www.ftm2006.com <http://www.ftm2006.com/> the new version of Family Tree Maker. Does anyone have this program yet that can tell me if it is worth upgrading from 2005? Brian
Brian, I do not have the 2006 version but I do have a recent version (10 as I recall). I have updated over the years from my first version 4 and have found very little difference from year to year. I downloaded the link you sent and I do like the pedigree chart that seems to be an upgrade to the 2006 version. I think that would be helpful although you can get pretty much the same thing from looking at the descendancy tree view. If you have a real old version (if I read your message correctly you have a 2005 version) you cannot share files with people that have newer versions (at least that has been my experience). In that case it might be a good idea to upgrade. If the price is an issue I would stick with what you have as there are not that many advantages to newer versions. I think this is a marketing ploy by FTM to keep selling programs. If you did not have a program for genealogy this would be a good one to start with compared to others available on the market. I have seen a lot of discussion about this on the Internet in the past years and most of the input concurs with what I said above. Of course, there are differences of opinion and I respect those as different people have different needs. likes and dislikes. Good luck, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Nichols" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:22 PM Subject: [MSRANKIN] new genealogy program >I just saw at www.ftm2006.com <http://www.ftm2006.com/> the new version of > Family Tree Maker. Does anyone have this program yet that can tell me if > it > is worth upgrading from 2005? > > > > Brian > > > > ==== MSRANKIN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send the command "unsubscribe" to > [email protected] (if in mail mode) or > [email protected] (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >