Family Tree Heritage Platinum 9 Reviews

The other reviewer is right. This is a specialized spreadsheet to simplify what is a pain to do. I like this program. But lets say Gramps does it better... and Gramps does it well and certainly doesn't hide a lot of complexity. To me, however, I just want to fill out the really cool 9 generation chart for my daughter which is within the CadStd Pro program for Gedcom files. She's young... but some day, she'll be older. If things are simple, I've got a better shot at getting it done sooner, then if things are not. Yes, it does link to various genealogy links including ancestry.com. I never got handed a chart of all the way from that city in England, or a family graveyard near me of 7 generations. If so, I'd only need to digitize what I knew and would probably scoff at other find and seek tools. However, find and seek is difficult enough... and this exports a gedcom file that is better understood by CadStd Pro than Gramps, so I'll keep using this. Gramps might be the long term, if there is a long term.

This program is only a spread sheet. The search function relies heavily on Ancestry.com and brings up only the basic info, mostly the same basic info you had to enter to perform the search. Access to detailed information, documents or photos will require subscribing to Ancestry.com. Save your cash.