Genealogy Chat

Feeling a bit thick now... I just went through my holiday emails and found this - It seems V16 is just 2006 plus a couple of other bits..... copied & pasted from FTM email received in August: You already know that #1-selling Family Tree Maker is the best family tree software you can buy. Now we're bringing you Family Tree Maker 16, packed with even more powerful, easy-to-use features and tools. Family Tree Maker 16 includes Family Tree Maker 2006, plus two other popular family history tools - 'GenSmarts and Our History in Images' - all for just $39.95. That's a 57% savings off the normal price of $92.85. Family Tree Maker 16 - a $29.95 value It's the best way to create, grow and share your family tree. Only Family Tree Maker lets you: Search and capture information from Ancestry.com records Quickly and easily enter data and get started on your tree Merge online data into your family tree Store and share your work - and much more ********* not sure if they want you to buy this one & bin your FTM2006 ??? Sarah :-)

Oh Thanks Sue! That's good to know. Although merging is a pain because you get all that Utah stuff and no census references. At least I know what it will do now, though it won't sort the websearch problem on bmds Sarah :-)

The latest update allowed you to add spouses and children automatically when you merged a census file, rather than having to type them all in yourself. Sue

hiya havent a clue hun :) like i say i'm using 2005, praps is what diffrence there is between the versions? i just checked again in updates, and it says none needed, maybe it just doesnt want them, maybe i need to upgrade, (like thats gonna happen) LOL to 2006?? But i'm quite happy with it as it is, was using version 4 for donkeys yrs, quite happy with that till i got 2005, but think i'll stick with this for now :)) what i dont have, i dont miss Julie

but if it does it automatically, why's it giving me a choice?? thoroughly confused now, Sarah :-)

hiya cheers sarah!! everytime i do a check for updates it says none needed, praps it does it automatically?? julie

Hi Julie, it's 2006 Sarah :-)

hiya, am curious, which version of FTM are you using? 2006? or 2005? I am using the latter, and havent had any prompts :( Julie

Thanks Keith, Without the update my websearch has been acting strangely since I got back from holiday and I wondered if the v16 patch would put it right? I wonder what it was supposed to do? especially if you can't see any difference. As it's free it's probably to correct something rather that to offer new facilites. I'll wait a bit longer though, see if I get any other feedback from people on here. Sarah :-)

Yes have updated, I cannot really see any difference, perhaps i'm going blind! No problems as such with it though. Keith

Has anyone updated to V16 - I keep getting prompts to do it but not sure what it will do?? ................................... Sarah :-) UPDATE - see my posting on 5th September