Customer Reviews

Family Tree Maker Deluxe Collector's Edition 8.0

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Do not waste your money on this version or any other packaged version that includes CDs with it. If you have a computer, access to the Internet and can type, you need not spend your money buying this product. The only thing worthwhile in this is the basic Family Tree Maker software. Everything else that is in this package, and more, can be found on ancestry.com!!

I don't know who wrote it originally, but I concur: the software program 'Family Tree Maker' is great. It's easy to use, offers a variety of ways to organize your family data, and lots of options for printouts. But you will be wasting your time and money to purchase any edition with the CD's. In the first place, you'll be wasting your time viewing the CD's. I've studied about 15 of them and never found one piece of pertinent information or genealogical leads. However, if you insist on looking, then go to your local LDS Family History Center where most of the CD's are available for viewing. A better use of time at your local FHC would be to study the materials they have available. In addition there are live people working there who are both knowledgeable and helpful and who can and will answer most of your genealogy questions.

I did not find this product useful! So far, I have not found ANY new links or tree members as a result of this software (and I only have about a dozen at this writing). The software is slow and the search engines are poorly written (if you have a tree with only one member, and search for a surname beginning with 'T', the s/w wants to start with the 'A' index). You cannot search a CD unless the s/w finds an index reference to that particular CD. The instruction manual is **really** bad - and lacks directions to 'advanced' features.

See my reviews under the Family Tree Maker 8.0 Deluxe 24-CD Set and 35-CD Set. This is the same as the 35-CD set with the addition of World Family Tree Vols 43-49. So you get the these WFT CDs for the difference in price.

Bought this software believing it would allow me to trace my family, and got a bunch of records that are of no relevance to anyone who doesn't hail from America. The template you can use is the only thing of use but is not worth the money the product costs. I would suggest you avoid this product unless you are only interested in American research.