Genealogy Chat

Have just had mail from Ancestry offering FTM 2010 Platinum edition for £35.99 instead of £59.00 plus 6 months Essentials membership. I was thinking of taking up this offer and wondered if anyone else has this edition and if so what's it like.

Barbara

Barbara

I got this a Christmas present. I'm still learning how to use it, but I think it's great. It enables you to store and manipulate so much more information, and the free ancestry subscription ha enabled me to find additional info and ancestors previously didn't know I had.

I down loaded my Genes tree as a Gedcom. I have now gone back to the paper copies of all my source documents to extract as much detail as I can for my FTM tree. It's taking time, but the results are worth it in my opinion. It has given me a much fuller and richer picture. I would'nt want to go back to not having it.

The official guide to FTM is a great reference guide, really useful, as are the 'Getting Started Guide' and the 'Little Book of Answers.

I think I will definitly have to buy the Ancestry subscription when my freebie expires.

Mike

The basic FTM 2010 software is just under £20 so you are getting a good deal with 6 months Essentials for £15. The 'Platinum' refers to the Ancestry sub on offer, not the actual FTM software, which is exactly the same no matter which package you choose.

I upgraded from FTM 2006 at Christmas and would fully endorse the product.

I mentioned this on another thread Barbara but I thought it was worth another mention here.
If you have £15 worth of Tesco vouchers you can get the 2010 FTM Platinum with 6 months essential membership. In other words, the same as the Ancestry offer for £20.99 LESS. You have to order it online and they send you a voucher which you have to send off to an address they provide.

I had the FTM 2010 bought me for Christmas and I absolutely love it. You can do so much with it.

It came with the 6 months free membership to ancestry, but I was already a member. However, my membership was due for renewal which I was going to renew so I telephoned them and they have added the 6 months to my existing membership, putting back my renewal date so that I didn't loose out.

I used to have FTM 4 many years ago but as I upgraded my computer, I couldn't transfer it (not computer lit to download upgrades) so I didn't use it and went back to paper files. FTM 2010 is so much improved, much more user friendly and has various ways of printing off reports and charts. It enables you to save to file any ancestry copies you need eg. census forms. Lovely. I wouldn't be without it now.

I would buy it, seems like a good offer to me.
Happy researching!

I have asked before, but didn't get many replies, as perhaps it was new.

What are the reporting facilities like on FTM 2010? What tree formats are available for printing out on A4? Can somebody advise me please.

Here is a full list of reports available on FTM 2010. All will print on A4 paper and indeed several other paper sizes can be selected too. You can customise for content, and (especially the Charts) appearance, look and feel. You can save templates for any customised charts you create for future use.

All can be printed, saved for future reference within FTM, or exported in text / pdf formats to send to others.

Charts:-
Pedigree
Descendant
Relationship
Hourglass
Vertical Pedigree
Horizontal Hourglass
Bow Tie
180 Fan
Family Tree Chart
Extended Family Chart

Genealogy Reports:-
Register & Simple Register
Ahnentafel & Simple Ahnetafel

Personal Reports:-
Individual
Custom
Research Notes
LDS Ordnances
Task List
Data Errors
Timeline

Relationship Reports:-
Family Group
Kinship
Marriage
Parentage
Outline Descendant

Miscellaneous:-
Calendar
Text Item
Source Usage
Source Bibliography
Documented Facts
Media Item
Media Usage
Photo Album
Place Usage

Finally there is also a facility to produce a Book from charts, reports and documents, again this can be saved in pdf format to send to others.

Thanks everybody for your input it certainly sounds worth having. I have some Tesco vouchers so probably will use those.

I am already a member of Ancestry with worldwide membership so have just mailed them to see if I can have a reduction of my sub. when it expires at the beginning of May but the offer still seems like a good deal with the essentials membership and I won't renew my worldwide if I can't get a deal with them.

Other members have confirmed that Ancestry will do a deal should you already have a subscription, so you shouldn't loose out.

Barbara

Ancestry won't refund, they will simply put your renewal date back by the 6 months.

Dee

Thats why I was careful to say they will do a deal.

I think someone with Premium recently may have got it exetended as such, even though the FTM offer is only for Essentials.

Just had reply from Ancestry and when my sub. is up for renewal they will knock £41.70 off my worldwide sub. which is the equivalent of 6 months essentials membership. Does anyone know if this is right because I can't find a list of the subscription charges.

Just found out 6 months essentials membership is £65.70. I rang them and they will now knock £65.70 off my worldwide membership which I think is a very good deal.

Hi
I wonder if Ancestry will do a deal the other way.
I have sent off for the tesco deal which will give me 6 months essentials.
Wouldn't it be great if i could then upgrade to Premium at a lower cost!

I shall ring them when it's set up and see if it's possible

Blue

Hi Blue, It's worth a free phone call. As you will see from my experience it certainly worked.

Best of luck

Thanks Barbara,
as soon as i am up and running i will be giving them a ring.



Blue

Nudge for SRS

Thanks Inspector :)