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Excellent application

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015

I have used Family Tree Maker since its beginning, I bought the last update in 2009 and realized there was really no substance to the updates for the cost. Now 2009 doesn't work correctly on the "new" Ancestry.com, in addition to its own buggy operation. So I started looking for a replacement. I had downloaded the trial version from the Calico Pie website and was very pleased with its operation. Even the trial version took in my whole combined family tree. I was very pleased with the interface, and since I am not a touch typist I like the fact that when I set focus to type something in the focus stays even if the mouse gets bumped. This was not the case with FTM 2009 and due to hot key interaction caused many problems. All in all my experience with the trial was so rewarding that I bought the program. Once the full version was loaded I explored the links on MyHeritage and found new information that needs to be explored. My thanks to Calico Pie for an excellent application. 5 stars since I have had no problems at all with this software.

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Harvey Nordyke

Ease in providing documentation to the program

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020

There was a frustrating learning curve. Some names were accidently submitted more than once. At this point I still am unable to remove the duplication. To that end, very frustrating.

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W. Borchardt

Excellent application

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015

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Jimmy D.

Family History Made Easy!

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018

Verified Purchase

The Family Historian 6 Genealogy and Family Tree software arrived in perfect condition and on time. I had no trouble at all installing on my PC and it seems to work flawlessly in Windows 10. It will take awhile for me to explore its vast array of features, but from what I've encountered so far, it's very forgiving and user friendly. I like the general layout of things and I think it will enable me to assemble all of my various bits of family history that I've been compiling from various sources over the years. It also has a direct link to the MyHeritage and FindMyPast websites which is very nice indeed! I give it top marks for ease of use and versatility. Very satisfied with this product!

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Harvey Nordyke

Ease in providing documentation to the program

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

There was a frustrating learning curve. Some names were accidently submitted more than once. At this point I still am unable to remove the duplication. To that end, very frustrating.

2 people found this helpful

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Rodriguez

It's a nice program

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2023

Verified Purchase

I like the product it does help to create the family tree or pedigree chart and be able to print it

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Charlie from VA

Highly rated, an excellent product and value

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2020

Verified Purchase

Using Ancestry, I've compiled an extensive family tree. I was able to download a GEDCOM file and load it into Family Historian with ease. Unfortunately, the many supporting documents, collected via Ancestry, are not included in the GEDCOM file, so all the links to the files are broken. I've started downloading the files and hope there will be an easy way to have them re-linked. Excellent program and easy to use and much easier to navigate downward to quickly review siblings and offspring. I will definitely be upgrading to version 7, when it's hopefully reduced "soon". Excellent product and good value.

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Terry M. Mcleod

Best for capturing family trees

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2020

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After checking reviews and best of lists, I chose this software. I am happy with how it works, the only downside being the need to subscribe to various services in order to get any information. For instance, it cost over one hundred dollars a year for limited info from Great Britain and Ireland from one of the two main sources -- more if you want the deluxe package in order to get military related records. None the less, I recommend this software on the basis that it does a great job of capturing and storing family relationships, important dates, etc., etc. As for the cost of information, my guess is there is no avoiding those costs, regardless of the software you use. And note that if you already have the information, this is a great tool for making reports to share and show that info.

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Best Genealogy software for assembling data and book making

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2019

Verified Purchase

Of the many many software packages out there, this package has the best features I was looking for to create books and booklets from the information that I have been gathering for years. The only con is that although it will sync to several genealogy websites, it cannot sync to Ancestry. It DID however flawlessly upload the Ancestry Gedcom files. I would highly recommend it. It is very easy to learn even for the newcomer and it gives you complete control of your book writing. It will create in .pdf or in rtf files to import into your word processor for your final touches.

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Sassy

Not usable!

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2021

Verified Purchase

I bought from this seller back in September with the promise of a free upgrade if I bought before November to version 7. I had issues trying to get the disk to work so had to fight for a code to download from Family Historian/Calico Pie. Finally got it and then got it downloaded, downloaded my tree from ancestry and started exploring. The maps were way off. It had my aunt buried in Africa, when she's buried right down the road from us in Arkansas, USA. Then somehow my tree just totally disappeared from the program. Now customer support won't help and no free upgrade as promised. They're passing the buck, saying I bought from another seller. Um, it happens that, yes I went thru amazon, but it is Calico Pie, the same as the webite for the product. The difference was I didn't have to wait for it to come from the UK. I do not recommend this product to anyone.

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Reader

A useful reference for the Family Historian software program

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020

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The Family Historian software is amazingly flexible and extensible. It is possible to record about any type of relationship or attribute you want to, and to generate about any type of report or chart you want. You can even write your own queries or scripts. With that comes a certain amount of complexity if you want to do more than scratch the surface. This reference is helpful in that regard. I have not yet finished reading it but even with extensive use of the software, I am learning some new capabilities from reading the manual. I realize that reading a manual isn't everyone's cup of tea, but skimming it will give you additional ideas about features you had not realized you had. The software is relatively inexpensive for what it does, so I don't feel badly about buying this book as well.

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Copper C.

Had to uninstall the TRIAL download v6 and reinstall with DVD for the reg key to work.

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2016

Verified Purchase

The downloaded version (30 day trial) worked and was able to restore a backup from older version4, once my purchased version arrived, I could not simply plug in the registration key - I tried a gazillion permutations (with/without hyphens), multiple name - even as if it were case sensitive.

The only thing that worked, was uninstall the downloaded TRIAL version and reinstall using the DVD provided with the key. I then restored from previous backup.

Also needed to have internet access.

I gave the distributor (out of OK) a mediocre review when it really wasn't their fault.

All in all, it was not that big of a deal, I just knew what I had to do without having to TRY this and that.

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