1. Fixing Relationship Mistakes contains erroneous information in the section: Notes on Attaching:

"If a child already has parents on one Family Page, you won't be able to add the child to a different Family Page without detaching them from their original Family Page first."
In fact, you must do this to represent an adoptee's relationship to her natural parents and her adoptive parents. 

1. Figure 6-5, page 217, (4th ed, 1997) shows the wrong dialog for Merging Specific Individuals. The dialog shown is for including individuals in a report (and other contexts). This is the correct dialog: 

This error was pointed out in November of 1997. Incredibly, the version 5 manual, instead of replacing the illustration with the correct one, changed the caption (which was correct) to match the illustration! Now the caption and illustration are both wrong! (But they match.) p222-223

2. There is no indication to which version of FTM the manual applies. 

[McE: The version is on the spine. RAD: OOOPS! But that seems to be the only place that it is mentioned. As a library researcher, I am accustomed to ignoring the spine entirely, as it usually is an abbreviated form of the real title, which is on the — where else? — Title Page.

3. Version 5 Figure 13-11 shows a dialog (Merge Individuals) which is considerably different from the actual product. The "buttons" mentioned in the figure (which seems to be the old V4 dialog) don't exist in the product.

4. The manual cover shows an open book with part of an Ancestor Tree on the left page and a Text Item on the right. It is actually not possible to intersperse Text Items within an Ancestor Tree as shown. Several people have asked how this is done, having seen it on the manual.

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   A small copy of this same image appears at the top of the FTM site home page.

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