Fellow researchers. Many of us run more than one program as there are advantages and disadvantages to each, as have been pointed out in recent postings. And there is no need to be saddled with a program with serious shortcomings (such as I find Family Tree Maker, even though I run an older version of it for searching CD's) But my main program, and the one perhaps used most extensively used internationally is Brother's Keeper. It is head and shoulders above any other, perhaps because it is written by an accomplished genealogist and constantly improved. It is a "shareware" and can be downloaded for free from his web site (type <Brotherskeeper> on your browser) If you like it, you can register it for about $45 as I recall. And all improvements and upgrades are FREE if you are registered. In addition to being very easy and logical, it allows all sorts of routines to check for errors (even typos) in your data. I have found these to be incredibly useful when the number of people entered gets rather large. I am in no way involved in the marketing of this program. I just felt concern for those who may be fairly new to genealogy and are running the heavily promoted, but clumsy programs mentioned in recent postings. George A Sharp, III