Re: I am wondering if anyone can tell me anything about "Master Genealogist" Janet, I use Master Genealogist almost exclusively for my databases and wholeheartedly recommend it for organizing and storing genealogy data. It has the best source documentation, family views, and options for customizing information that I've found anywhere. It's a little pricey to buy initially, but they have free upgrades that you can download every year or so. I think in the 10 years of so that I've used the program (pretty much since it's release) I've only had to pay for an upgrade twice, and gotten at least a half-dozen for free, unlike Family Tree Maker, which makes you pay for an upgrade at least every year! There are just a couple of warnings about TMG. It is VERY complex. I attended a class on using it in a NGS conference before I bought it, have used it for a long time, and still am clueless as to how to do a lot of things with it. There is so much potential that I don't take advantage of and have to refer to the manual almost every time I try to publish something with it. Because of this, I also keep Family Tree Maker up to date and installed on my computer as well. If you're a novice, FTM might be the better program to start with because it is much more user friendly. I always wind up making a gedcom with TMG and importing it to FTM to do a book with multiple reports, charts and indexes, etc. because it's a lot easier. I know TMG does those things as well, it's just not quite so simple. That leads to one other problem with TMG. One of the reasons I like it so much is because there is so much detail available for documentation. However it often winds up being several layers deep, and a lot of the information stored there is lost when converted to a gedcom. For example an event will have a source field, which will let you chose or create a new source, like most other programs. Then it goes a step or two deeper where you can describe a secondary or tertiary source, if applicable, the repository, attachments, and other notes about it. When it gets exported in gedcom format, all you might get is the source and whatever citation you have made. That's not a big problem except when you're attempting to switch to a different format to share all of your information with someone else. I guess, all things being equal, if I had to choose only one program to use it would be TMG hands down.