Family Tree Maker 10

by Riverdeep

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006IFSI
• Item model number: 381566
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 6, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,980 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #81 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Genealogy
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Turn your family history into a lasting legacy with the easy-to-use research tools and creative output options of Family Tree Maker 10. Five CD-ROMs provide more than a 1,000 years of valuable historical data, letting you create exciting projects like family trees, timelines, and multimedia scrapbooks that document your heritage.

Family Tree Maker 10's comprehensive publishing center offers a wide variety of heirloom-quality printout and layout options, while its new PDF file format tool ensures hassle-free file sharing. Use the Standard Pedigree Tree--a convenient fact-gathering tool--to print standardized genealogy forms that you can take to family reunions, on research trips, or anywhere you might uncover family facts. Also new to the title is a handy date calculator, a family file statistics tool for at-a-glance data access, enhanced photo editing tools, and RTF file formatting tools.

Discover the fun and reward of sharing family research with Family Tree Maker 10's easy-to-use home page wizards. You can create a personal home page for simple online sharing in no time. And if that's not enough to get your research started, this award-winning software comes with free access to Genealogy.com's World Family Tree Collection--a convenient, accessible online resource--for one month.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

100 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Watch out! (and buy a better another product), June 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Family Tree Maker 10 (CD-ROM)

I would be very suspious about buying this product after using Family Tree Maker version 9. In that version, Broderbund has an application called aqueduct.dll that routinely creates an aqueduct.txt file in your root directory that completely "profiles" your computer. I have a complex system, and the profiler file was over 2000K - rather large for any text file - and it compiled a list of every piece of hardware, software, and program setting on my machine with personal info. (If you are a version 9 user, look at it. You are in for a shock!) Talk about loss of privacy. Goodness knows what they do with this information!!... A download from the FTM site site is supposed to "fix" this, but the patch does not load, requests to tech support simply return unrelated automated "help" messages. I have never received a reply for a real person. - The program in general, creates lots of ads, pointed requests for signing-up for other paid services at every turn...and in general, is a very middling product. The companion software "to help you build your family tree" is undocumented stuff that is simply worthless to anyone serious about finding their roots.(There is much controversy about supposed "spyware" in this product on computer message boards that are worth looking at too. Responses by a guru named Dick Eastman, who appears to have never really looked at the product, and Genealogy.com should be taken with a grain of salt, and in some ways are laughable.) - - If you are serious about genealogy, I recommend "The Master Genealogist" which is top rated by writers of the National Genealogy Society newsmagazine, but there are other better and less annoying products to choose from too. - - As a former version 9 user, I would recommend you avoid this program like the plague.

51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Generations Family Tree by Broderbund is a better choice., January 23, 2003

By 

3boys (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Family Tree Maker 10 (CD-ROM)

Family Tree Maker is an okay genealogy program. For the very novice or someone that needs an extremely simple format for inputting - this one's for you. Otherwise for beginner's and experts alike, get Generations Family Tree (now distributed by Broderbund). The charts and family group sheets are easier to use and have superior results compared to Family Tree Maker. Don't go for the "deluxe" versions, the extra discs of "information" contains very little useful data - plus the same information can be readily found on the internet. I've been using genealogy programs for the last 5 years and have tried several. It's too bad that Broderbund bought Generations (from Sierra Home software) and won't promote it - as it's a better product over their Family Tree Maker.

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars False Advertising on Box, March 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Family Tree Maker 10 (CD-ROM)

I purchased Broderbund Family Tree Maker because on the box it states all of the types of data I can access. That is not accurate. Once the software is installed and opened, there is no data to access, only advertising to sell access to the information at high prices. Also, no phone number to call and verify what I have encountered in case I am mistaken and there is some secret way to bypass the sales pitch.