Family Tree Maker(TM)
Warts
CD-ROMs
Problems associated with the many CD-ROMs available from Brøderbund®,
or that it provides to other vendors, including viewer software.
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Brøderbund®
CDs
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110 (SSDI)
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Data from the Social Security Death
Index
is imported and cited with a footnote,
not a Master Source.
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Entries are missing. Compare:
Note that this individual died over ten years
ago, and the FTM CD was issued only last year, "V110_05V2". If one person
is missing, how many others?
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 footnote
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FTM
Compare:
Ancestry.com |
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403 (Marriages)
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Search results are presented as "So-and-so and spouse"
However, the "spouse" of those results may or may not be the "spouse" indicated
in your file. The number of false hits is increased exponentially because
of this.
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NEHGS Register viewer
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The software supplied with this 9 CD set of 148
years (1847-1994) of The New England Historic Genealogical
Society's
publication, The Register, was supplied by Brøderbund®.
This software is apparently a modified version of the FTM program, exhibiting
the following problems:
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The viewer is incompatible
with FTM. One cannot be invoked without first closing the other. This makes
it impossible to transcribe data directly from the CDs into FTM.
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The viewer takes over the file
associations for the FTM file types FTW, FBC, etc. After using one of these
CDs, a click on an FTM file re-invokes the NEHGS viewer! One must invoke
the FTM program directly to allow it to recapture the associations.
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The "search carry-over" which
is supposed to continue your search from the index CD to one of the data
CDs does not work. Furthermore, there is no way to continue the same search
on the next data volume indicated from the index search.
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The zoom controls need some
intermediate settings. The preset detents give images which are either
too large or too small.
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footnote
Compare:
FTM
Compare:
Ancestry.com
