Review by Peace Daddy

Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 is a great purchase for anybody looking to start tracing their family tree and genealogy. For the price of the program, you also get 6 months access to Ancestry.com, which almost covers the retail cost. If you can find this on sale, it makes it an even better deal.

Essentially, the real value comes from the Ancestry.com membership, and the ability to sync and download your findings with Family Tree Maker. Be forewarned that if you’re going to develop a substantial tree, it’s probably going to eat up dozens of hours of your time researching and verifying information. The nice thing is, the software and Ancestry.com are relatively user friendly, and I’ve even been able to get my kids involved in it by having them explore and research.

I’ve seen some other people post about losing hundreds of hours of research due to a software glitch. Thankfully, we haven’t had any issues with it whatsoever, but it’s always a good idea to back up your information just in case anything were to happen. Overall, our experience with Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com have been very positive. I’m not sure if I’ll extend my membership past the 6 months we received with this, as it is pretty expensive, but I’m pretty sure I can get most of the research I need done in that amount of time.