Family Tree Maker For Dummies

Pluses: This book has clear instructions and good hints on entering family information, and some of the tougher jobs such as exporting and importing files. The book has a unique section, not in the "official" manuals or companion publications: Chapter 16, "Ten Ways to Avoid Calling Technical Support". Here there are hints here that have never been published. Chapter 15 "Ten Things That Can Save You Time" has more short cuts than in the "official" publications. The short cuts are either not in the manuals or hard to find. All users will find some of them useful. The book also covers some of the fine points of Genealogy and computer management: Cite sources and Back Up, Back Up are two examples.Minuses: The authors examples are a ridiculous genealogy of household pets,"Greyhound Canine" and "Tabitha Zee Feline". Their example did not allow the complexity of a real family. The animal parallel was distracting from the excellent work explaining the program. Some information and relationships which are in many family files were not covered.

Was disappointed to see it doesn't cover the newest version of FTM (2019). Returned.

It helped a lot with my family tree

wasnt what I was looking for but do use Ancestry.com and will probably at some time get the FTM download, just dont have the time to do it right now, I go to Ancestry about once every other month

Have read some of it and what I read, has been helpful

Just ok

I'm a bit of a fan of the Dummies series of books so I especially enjoy this book. It's written with the typical humor of the Dummies books & it is a big help navigating the Family Tree Maker program. I recomment it!

This book has been very helpful. I have learned a lot for it. And will look to it often for help..

Those Dummies books are all great. They give clear, understandable explanations which are easy to follow. Well laid out. This one is no exeption. Would highly recommend.

Dose not cover the latest versions of FTM 2005 onwards

Really good book, I have been doing my family tree since 2007 and like most newbies I made lots of mistakes, this book helped me to sort it all out.

Looks good

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