Family Tree Maker 2009 Deluxe

Family Tree Maker is a series of packages designed to help you build and enrich your family tree, originally designed by Broderbund and then sold to become part of Ancestry.com's line of products. As of writing, the 2010 version has just been released, but prior versions are still very popular within the genealogy community and I personally still use 2009. The main feature of building your family tree is straightforward to use and will work with as little or as much information as you can provide. The tree builder utilizes two screens - the family screen and the person screen. On the family screen you can see all the connections between family members, ...  Read the complete review

For a while now, I've wanted to research my family history and create my own family tree. Only two things have been stopping me from doing so. The first is that I had no idea how to even get started. My Dad's adopted, there is a disowned family member on my mother's side, my sister has two children but is unmarried with her partner, and that's just for starters. The idea of entering all this information on to a family tree and then work backwards from it seem daunting. The second reason is that I didn't have the time to spend on it. But recently I've found myself with a great deal of time on my hands, and when I saw this Family Tree Maker Deluxe 2009, I thought to myself ...  Read the complete review