Genealogy Chat

It DOES work on Vista, although I think Vista is a PAIN!!

I think I needed to download some sort of viewer but it was 'easy peasy' as I am not very good on these things. - '2 minute job' !!

FTM is brilliant - Vista (imho is a pain !!!)

Dea x

Ok great ill have to let the folks on genoforum know because they are having all sorts of problems thats ehat put me off. Im purchasing right now thanx guys!xx

And - I got FTM version 7 -(about 1997 era) to run on Vista except the help function doesn't work - but there was a huge manual that came with it so not a problem.
B

Hi Donna
Family tree maker 2006 DOES work on Vista. I have Vista Home Premium.
Im using it.
The price Heather gives above is excellent value
Message me if you need help.
Sue
Update if you prefer a freebie Legacy also works on Vista

Well after more research it seems FTM doesnt work with Vista............Any other ideas anyone help? I cant transfer my data until I get the software what a pain??????

Donna, its play.com : The WDYTYA version - FTM2006 (if you go through quidco.com you get a bit of cash back - join quidco, you get cash back on hundreds of merchants) Anyway, its £5.99 free postage on play .com including 30 days free ancestry sub - heres the link. As mentioned above, you may need to download a patch for it to work with Vista.

http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?searchtype=allproducts&searchstring=family+tree&page=search&pa=search

Minimum Requirements
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Getting started is easy. Just enter the information you already know and watch your tree take shape. As your research gets going, you can add new relatives to your tree storing other information you've collected along the way; birth dates, birthplaces, marriages and deaths. You can easily add notes, photos, images and documents on each person, to tell his or her story.
The program will automatically search the largest online collection of family history information at Ancestry.co.uk. A Web Search Report allows you to compare the search results side-by-side with The information in your tree, so you can quickly determine whether it's relevant. You can then merge the record directly into your Family Tree file.
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I do prefer FTM, Heather I cant find that for 5.99 what version is it? Unfortunately with a new baby on the way every penny counts!!!!

thanx

what about roots magic *com

Peter - I think the FTM Donna is using is the free one which has limitations - Donna for £5.99 at play.com you can get the full version plus an ancestry sub I believe - and all the facilities like a homepage on the net etc.

Otherwise I believe PAF free download works with VISTA

FTM should work ok with Vista, although you might need to download a patch.

Have a look at the installation forum, there might be some help there, or you could post a question.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/install/

Have you tried Genopro?

www.genopro.com

Sue
x

Hi,

Does anyone know of any free software (ben using family tree maker) that will run on vista? The free version wont work??

any ideas anyone???

xx