Hi, I had problems with the old Family Tree 2.0by Banner Blue, but it is now owned by Broderbund . The old one was slow on a 24 Meg Packard Bell- not enough memory to do everything. Matel then bought them out and now Broderbund puts it out. I would not reccomend running it less than 36 Megs. I now have a 64 Meg 10 gig machine which runs FTM version 7 and I love it- it has a greatly expanded set of choices and will print out a complete family history with notes and photos, as well as several other choices of printouts. Thjis set comes with 20 CD indexes of immigration, Census, birth, marriage, U.S. and International, Military, Social Security, land, and researched Family Trees, and ship passenger lists with access to 2 Billion names. I have not even loadad all discs, as one can work from disc instead of memory as needed. Have not had enough time. This is marked by the printer as a $500.00 value and it was less than $70.00 at Wallmart on a special sale. If I were starting from scratch I would get a 128 Meg. 20 gig machine from Dell or Compaq or an Apple Imac I used several others at school and in Waco libraries and he newest Imacs are the fastest I have ever used for running the Internet and family research. I found more about my Hatchett (Indentured servant) ancestors and Farley (His owner) ancestorsof Jamestown in 3 hours than I have ever found on a Microsoft program in other machines. My FTM program will go directly on line to Salt Lake City for a small fee, but I have not needed to do that. They are not accurate on some Mecklenburg county records- as we were told by a Dallas Public Library Geneaologist in a workshop. Take care Charles A. Wyly P.S. Windows 3.1 did a lousy slow job with FTM and other programs- Windows 95 was better, and I loved Microsoft Bob, but it took too much room. Windows 98 and FTM has choices I did not have with older machines and will even print your cover sheet and, with one command print all you have in a very neat format with no cutting, pasting, or separate note typing. Charles Wyly On Tue, 22 May 2001 19:53:10 -0500 skm <flintlock@kcnet.com> writes: > I have got family tree maker also and despise it. My cousin and I > worked on > our family TREE together and I can't get hers or mine to even be > able to > browse. > My husband did my TERRY family and I have to go to his computer to > find my own > name. > > katharan plemmons wrote: > > > Hi Sandy.. > > > > I have Family Tree and can't get it to work, either...LOL..but I > downloaded > > the free PAF program from Ancestry.com and it is wonderful....I > have never > > had any problems with it... > > > > Katharan > > > > >I enjoy this list very much. Could someone please tell me if > there is a > > >free > > >simple genealogy software program I can download. I purchased > Family Tree > > >but can't seem to get it to work. Thanks Sandy > > > > > > > > >============================== > > >Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & > Celebrate > > >your heritage! > > >http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the > #1 > > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >