Family Tree Maker Deluxe 10

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006IFSJ
• Item model number: 381565
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 6, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,960 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Track your heritage, save the results for posterity, and even publish your family tree on the Web! Family Tree Maker Deluxe gives you all the tools you require to accomplish just that, making it easier than ever to search out your ancestry--and to keep track of what you find.

Family Tree Maker Deluxe comes with a vast collection of information, from family histories to Social Security birth and death records. The information is on a series of CD-ROMs, and if any criticism can be made of this program, it is that it needs to go to DVD in the worst way, because the endless switching of these archive CDs can become tiresome indeed. Even so, the program's integrated search function sifts quickly and thoroughly through the data and comes up with matches rapidly.

Research is only half of the genealogical researcher's task, however. Once you have all the data in hand, the largest challenge remains: making sense of it. Fortunately, Family Tree Maker Deluxe makes this easy, too, with graphs, beautifully laid out charts of all types, and even HTML versions of family trees that are easy to create and manage. Family anecdotes and old photographs can be attached to entries, giving the charts an immensely personalized touch. Family Tree Maker also provides links to professional printers who specialize in genealogical displays.

The raw power of this software--not to mention its overall no muss, no fuss approach--is certain to appeal to new researchers and experts alike. --Alyx Dellamonica

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 Deluxe. Ten CD-ROMs provide 1,100 years of valuable historical data and more than 19 million passenger and immigration records, letting you create exciting projects like family trees, timelines, and multimedia scrapbooks that document your heritage.

The Deluxe Edition comes with a comprehensive publishing center that offers an array 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 Deluxe's easy-to-use home page wizards. You can create a secure 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

371 of 378 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Useless extra CDs and constant ads to buy additional items, May 30, 2003

By	The Feisty Curmudgeon (USA) - See all my reviews

Family Tree Maker Deluxe has some nice features. An instruction manual is included, but you'll hardly need to use it, as the basic genealogy program is simple to use and offers several options for viewing and printing your family trees. For this reason, I'm giving it two stars instead of one.

The problem with Family Tree Maker Deluxe is the extra CDs which are included with the basic program. I found the extra CDs to be absolutely worthless. There is nothing on the box outlining in detail what you'll find on the CDs, so let me give you an idea.

4 of the CDs are a "Family Finder Index" which include millions of names, some of which are sketchy at best and include a lot of ??? instead of full names and dates. You may find the names of many of your ancestors here, but if you click on the name to see what additional information is available and if this is really your ancestor, you aren't given any information about the person. You are instead given an advertisement to purchase yet more CDs or an online subscription. This seems to be the typical response for most of the "research" associated with this software.

2 of the CDs contain the Social Security Death Index from 1937-1999, all of which can be looked up online for no cost.

1 CD is "Family History: Mid-Atlantic Genealogies" and contains information on the following families: Condit, Dill, Dodge, Douglas, Dutton, Emerick, Emmons, Mott, and Schell.

1 CD is "Local and Family Histories: New England" and contains the following information: Descendents of Thomas Dickinson; History of the Dudley Family; The Eaton Family of Nova Scotia; and the History of the town of Bristol, New Hampshire.

1 CD contains Military Records of US Soldiers from 1784-1811.

You are also given one-month access to Genealogy.com's World Family Tree collection, which lets you view the family trees of other people who have purchased the software and posted their family trees, unless they have marked the information "private." I found this feature to be practically worthless, as the format for viewing the online trees was confusing and difficult to navigate.

You are also given access to Genalogy.com's search engine, but again, if you run across any matches for the names you're researching, you're told to purchase more CDs or an online subscription, many of which were quite costly. Genealogy.com does have many census records available, but each decade is a separate CD, and buying all of them would be a ridiculous expense.

I'd suggest skipping this particular version of Family Tree Maker altogether and either purchasing the basic no-extra CDs version of Family Tree Maker or using another genealogy program entirely.

57 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic product!, September 28, 2002

By A Customer

This helped me re-create most of 20-years of research that was lost in a fire. All in all, I was also able to find new information, in less than 40 hours.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Starter, March 12, 2005

By	J. Sprouffske (Rainier, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've found this program to be great for organizing family information. The CD's were very helpful for me and I would probably buy a newer version. If you want to use this program to chart your roots all the way back the CD's might help. The layout definitely makes this software great for people to use. This is definitely the right software for people that just want to make charts and gather information on immediate family.