Customer Reviews

Family Tree Heritage Deluxe V7.0

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Family Tree Heritage Deluxe 7.0 is the latest version of the venerable Heritage Family Tree. As such, it has all the features of the solid earlier version plus some welcome additions including a field for recording DNA information, a useful individual summary page, the ability to print family books, and links to on-line resources. Although FTH 7.0 may not be as glitzy as more expensive packages, it is full-featured, has many useful tools and is a great value. FTH 7.0's data can be imported/exported to most popular genealogy programs so there is no need to be concerned if one of the more pricey programs catches your eye in the future.

I have only one quibble with FHT 7.0. Individual Sofware's package and the on-line brochure for the product indicate that one can create multi-media presentations and burn them to DVD to share with family or bring to reunions. While Passages Express is indeed bundled with the installation CD, it is the limited Standard Edition. In order to access advanced features, including DVD burning, one needs to upgrade to Passages Express Deluxe--at an additional cost of $19.95 for the "Deluxe license." There is no indication anywhere on the box or in the included matter that you must pay more to burn DVDs--a glaring oversight, especially since the claim that the program will burn DVDs appears in three different places on the box. This sort of marketing technique makes one wonder if there are any other features that are limited or not included. Individual Software should correct their packaging or include the upgrade at no charge.

While the over-stated claim about DVD burning is annoying, the Family Tree Heritage itself does everything a good genealogy program should do and does it well. FTH 7.0's flawlessly organizes scapbook items such as scanned documents; Word and text files; images; PDF files; and sound and video files within individual records.

Beginners should learn the basics of genealogy terminology and data gathering before diving in, but with program's editing features, mistakes and mis-steps are easily corrected.

FTH 7.0's low list price is attractive and some retail packages currently (December 2008) include a $10 mail-in rebate.

Purchased this version of Family Tree Heritage (FTH) to replace my 2002 version of FTM. For the money it is full of features, separate data files for text, multimedia and, photos which I use frequently. This makes any data corruption of files less tragic. Don't forget to backup often anyway. If you use any other geneology software, learning to navigate this program does not take long. Plenty of buttons to click and pull down screens for adding all kinds of information and source notes.

The biggest gripe I have is NO PRINTABLE MANUAL. Yes, they do include a PDF manual with the program but it only prints on 8-1/2 by 3-1/2 paper and NOT on 8-1/2 by 11: If you do print on letter size paper, the text is small and hard to read: a total waist of ink and paper. I had to print the whole manual one page at a time, enlarge each page to letter size text then copy each page in back-to-back book style: a REAL HASSLE when all they needed to do is make it print on standard paper. Guess they don't want anyone to really READ this stuff.

For the money , this softwae is hard to beat, easy to learn and keeps lots of details on individuals. Falls way short on a good user (printer friendly) manual.

As far as organizing, just as good as FTM or RootsMagic, but misleading; indicates that a wonderful DVD/CD can be made to share with others. Have had over a year and still trying to find a way to make this wonderful DVD to share. Wanted to be able to put photos with the information...if anyone can figure out how it's done, please let us know. Deleted and went back to FTM 2009, This software was a waste of my time and money.

I have 10 full books of genealogy of my family and my husband's family. I had Family Ties on my old computer and when I bought a new computer I could not transfer it. I wanted a genealogy program like the old one. I did not find one exactly like it - but I do admit I like this new one. I may have to start all over again and make new books! I ordered first Family Tree Heritage and did not like it at all - you took it back and refunded the full amount to me. Thank you. And when I ordered the new one - Family Tree Maker 2011 I knew if I didn't like it, I could return it, but it is as close as I will get to the old one. The orders always came quickly. Thank you again for such great service..

I just started doing genealogy research about two years ago, and this program has helped in leaps and bounds. I used to use the free software provided by the LDS and it wasn't bad for a free product. However, this product has so many bells and whistles that it will make your head spin.

In short, I'm so glad I purchased it.

Purchased, installed and registered software. Didn't work at a basic level. Called and e-mailed Technical Support twice with NO RESPONSE. Completely wasted my time and money.

This product is falsely advertised and it's features are minimal and I would not recommend it to anyone. I had a really hard time copying my existing file and then only to have to redo everything. I am probably going to return it.

For the most part I found this software easy to use with many nice features, however it does not do everything as promised and some of the report generation could use some tweaking. I could not generate a useable .pdf file without purchasing additional software - which was not advertised and the help files were a little vauge ...; overall though, for the price it does the basics.

seems to be ok I have not had time to use it but my wife seems to like it not bad for the price.

The thing I like the most about this software is it is super easy to use. I have bought a few other programs and got frustrated and set them to the side. The other thing that I like are all the features you can use to create a scrapbook of your history, once you have completed your information; tree, events, pictures, and notes. My daughter and I created a DVD slideshow for our family reunion in Chicago this summer. It was very cool, and now we have new family enthusiasts who are sending us materials for an update!