Family Tree Maker for MAC

Genealogy Software

Name of Genealogy Software Program: 

Date of purchase: 

Your Experience Level 

Other Genealogy Software I've Used or Tried 

iFamily

Biggest Pro 

Gives automatic relationship to "Host" person

Automatically searches Ancestry.com for person's events. You can then ignore the event or link to that person along with the source.

Biggest Con 

1)Frequent CRASHES, especially when linking person with MEDIA event

2)POOR TECH SUPPORT

3)Seems it's intent is more for purchase of Ancestry.com subscription then being a good genealogy program

My Review 

This program has crashed when I:

1) Linked an event to the selected person(especially a Media link)

2) Compacting the file (which Tech Support says will cure crashes)

3) Backing up the program

4) Switching from one selected person to another

5) Exporting a file

6) Accidentally double clicking on a link

7) Haven't got a clue WHY

Contacting Tech Support (or NON-Support) gave these solutions:

Compact the file

Exporting a new file from charts

Exporting a GEDCOM

All the above either did not work or caused the program to crash

Tech Support also suggested " Uploading and downloading your file"

I must admit that I did not try this, as I was leery of what happened to my Data after it was uploaded to FTM and/or Ancestry.com

This program was supposed to have been created from scratch, but with their lack of a solution to these crash problems, makes me think

it is a FTM-PC modification to Mac.

In short, this program is a bust.

Would you recommend this to a friend?