Review by Elizabeth Slater

I’ve had the Deluxe before, so I’m not as happy with the Essentials as I was with that, but you get what you pay for, I guess :-) You get a month of Ancestry free and still have the updated software to use but I would probably recommend one of the higher level editions unless you are an advanced genealogist who already knows what you are doing and already have your habits set and resources and forms.

It is updated for mobile apps and Windows 8, if you are so unfortunate as to have to have to use that operating system.