Windows Vista

I'm learning to use the program and am pretty satisified. with the results so far.

Haven't as yet had enough time to evaluate the program, but I did have a sort of trial run and found out that it would not project my full family tree, I have 2 sons and 1 grandson and which ever way I chose to look at the family tree it missed either one or the other of my sons off. It may be that I am doing something wrong so I shall continue to experiment.

Neil

Hi.
Academic because I have a Mac: thought the download was ok for that, but I guess not.
John.

As far as gone it´s great.

As I've been using it for less than 24 hours it normally takes me a few weeks to form a conclusion. I think the app changed my default search provider and I didn't care for that. It also bounced me into a web page when I started it today and I didn't care for that either. I'm getting used to the navigation and it looks like something that will grow on me in a short time. Overall it's a very nice proggie so far.

Yes, I have a Mac with OSX 10.5.6 software. i can't figure out how to launch the program. I can find any instructions. Please help.

Thank You

Your product is very nice, I've been using FTM and haven't been to pleased with it. There are a few request I would like to add to your list if you don't mind:

1. The ability to list a child as step-child. There are situations when a child has a biological parent, but one of the parents re-marries or it's a not talked about situation. If this was added, would it work without creating duplicate siblings of the same person?

2. Is there a way you could add a military section?

3. I love the fact that I can change the colors to suit my taste. Ancestry never caught onto this. Could there be a way to add an image behind the chart (watermark crest or faded image).

4. This program would be great if you could use it on your iPhone. I'm always on the go and being able to sync data on the fly would be a definite advantage.

5. Is it possible to have a home screen dashboard when the software opens?

6. A Gadget or widget would be nice.

You have done a great job with this program and have advanced it further than FTM.

This is a very nice program. I am still learning to use it, but I like what I see and how easy it is to use.
Rich Madden

Trying out the Family tree builder I find it very easy to use - I especially like the pictures and that one is able to identify and associate persons within the image. I however, lack a very important feature, statistics! Nowhere can I find a way to look at average age, adresses, number of children etc. This is a feature that I find essential and it would not be so difficult to add this feature to the program.

As a free software this puts others to shame - period. However one of the things I don't
necessarily like is whether or not data input can be simplified. See, for example Family
Tree Maker (2005 is the version I use). There are two kinds of researchers I think -
hobbiests and "historians" (for lack of a better way of putting it. The former want pictures
and pretty interfaces. The latter want simple and quick (tab to tab for data entry boxes)
and a fast rendering and computing system. Now to be clear, I use a mac and I LOVE
intuitive interfaces but when it comes to this, for me, it's about *database* management -
not pretty pictures - I want to enter data first and foremost. And to be fair I've not been
able to play with this that much just yet, so it takes time to re-acclimate one's self to a
new software. But I still keep coming back to **keeping a windows machine** **just** to
do my genealogy work because all the mac programs are "bloated". Again, maybe a
stripped down, fast user, version could be considered - I want to see Father + Mother and
children and marriage ALL on one page - needing to move from page to page is a waste of
time if/when instead all the children could be on one page (again, I have to check your
options more first, so if this criticism is unwarranted, disregard).

Finally - great as it *appears* to be it CRASHES and CRASHES and CRASHES (running Win
XP, Service Pack 3 btw - the computer is out of date admittedly with a 500 Mhz chip -
768MB RAM). This is a real bad problem - a real "turn off" (and I saw others say the same).
If we can send you crash reports I'd be happy to.

Good luck with this - could be a Giant Killer quite frankly -

best
Andrew Timleck

this program is really excellent and I have to say that designer of the software deserves more than this price and rewards he or [team] is genious.

With best regards
Naeem Iftikhar

Seamless use of the software. Imported the .ged file was a breeze and the interface, WOW. Lots of other features too. Thanks for the great software.

I have had a really good time using this program. It is very user friendly. I have had the oppotunity to try other programs and found them not as easy our as attractive set up as this program.

All in all I'm very content with this program.

I had some problems concernig the constellation of having halfsisters and -brothers... It took me some time to find out how this works.

I also was irritadet that although you defined the relationship between two people as "friends" or "seperated" they still appear as spouses in their maindescription (only the relationshipdescription changed) (This ist at least the case in the german version)

I think it is a pity that the option "name of birth" is obly possible with women and not men, although at least in my area the more and more men decide to take their wifes name after their marriage.

Annother thing is, that you can choose the option "widowed" but this option doesn't generate itself automatically if you define one person as dead.

Thats all I could find until now.

Good Program. It helps me organizing my families roots.

Can't operate as runtime error occurs & forces shutdown; (Vista OS)

Will not allow you to register and use all features. Always gets a cannot communicate error. Looks like a great program if not for this.

- Previous versions crashed a LOT; this version has crashed once
in the 30 minutes or so I've been using it. I have to save project
after every single data entry, to make sure I don't lose anything.

- no way to link from a person to a tree/person somewhere else
on the web, created by some other program ?

- when press Alt-Tab in Windows XP Home, FTB shows up as program "blank"

Using older versions:

- couldn't register through program/installer; had to go to web site,
register there, then back to program. Then it downloaded a 16 MB update !

- app keeps crashing if I try to delete all children of some person

- app keeps crashing if I have no connection to the internet ?

- no way to put in a partial birth date, such as 13 Nov ???? (error says died before birth)

I have only just started to use this software and so far so good. Need to play with it a bit more but I'm chuffed.

Thanks.

My initial impressions are that it is very good. Most things are pretty obvious for anyone who is familiar with windows. The download was easy and also the installation. So far I have entered five generations and not run into any problems. The reports are great.

The one feature that has given me most difficulty is setting a photo as the personal photo. I have managed this but the route isn't obvious. I would suggest that a better solution would be to be able to select the required photo, with a mouse click menu, similar to setting a picture as a desktop background. Alternatively having a radio button against the particular photo in the list of photos that come up with the person's details under photos. Having no programming knowledge that may be easier said than done.

The help menu is obviously there for future development, however in the meantime a brief tutorial showing the basic functions for a person's details would be nice and speed up things for the first time user. This isn't a place to waste time though because as I said most things are pretty obvious.

A good job so far. If I find anything that causes me grief I will let you know.