Review by S. Shrader

I’ve not used other versions of Family Tree Maker, but as other reviewers have noted, this version seems a bit slow to start-up and connect to ancestry.com. Also, I found out the hard way that if I close my laptop before I close Family Tree Maker, the link to ancestry is permanently lost and I have to re-sync the trees. With that said though, I do enjoy the charting and reporting features, information on generations, data organization, and the ability to publish books. Overall, I think it is definitely worth the price and can be very helpful to organize family history, even if it does take a couple minutes to start-up and sync.