Re: Roots Magic over Family Tree Maker

I currently own Family Tree Maker (FTM) 2005 under Windows 2000 have
been noticing some problems lately. I do not think that FTM in
completely happy under 2000?

So I have been wondering changing to Roots Magic v.3, does any one
currently have this and what do you think of it?

Peter Williams

sull1927...

If you have FTM switch to Legacy or RM or TMG every day in the week
and twice on Sunday!

All three owners or tech people are available and all accomodate users
requests that would benefit the majority of users.

All three have a trial program or a basic program so you don't have to
open your billfold until you're sure.

I suggest inputting about 50 + or - people from different families to
give the programs a workout including report printing. An entire data
base is too unweildy and takes too much paper for reports when
testing. Or gedcom the entire data base in and only print a few
generations.

If the advice is worth nothing, that's what it cost you. 8-)

Paul Blair...

I don't know what you are seeing as unhappiness, but FTM 2005 works well
under Win2K/XP.

But it is FTM, with not a lot of improvement over past years, and a
degree of non-standard features eg GEDCOM export. But it does good
charts, and the underlying data management seems to be unbreakable. It
is faster than other software (eg Legacy), but....

Roots Magic is good, and the writer(s) are aware of customer inputs. It
is blindingly fast (useful if you have a large file ...say 5000+
entries.) There is a free trial which is limited to the number of
entries you can make yourself, but the trial version will import any
size so you can test a large file for yourself. It's worth doing just
for the sheer pleasure of watching efficient software!