How Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 Saved Me $590!

It was one of the highest ticket impluse purchases I've ever made. Usually, I limit myself to contraband Snickers.

I really love my MacBook Pro. I love iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand. I love not worrying about viruses and pornadoes. However, I do NOT love iWork. I have tried to get used to Pages-no luck. I also do not like Reunions 9.

Since the two main things I do with my laptop (besides using it as a portable DVD player) are word processing and genealogy, I was starting to think it was time to go back to Windows. (Please let's not start Platform Holy Wars).

I ran into Office Max for a notebook and a pen. $137 later...I came out with 2 notebooks, a pen, a thumb drive, a calculator, and Family Tree Maker for Mac 2. I figured that since my purchase also came with a free 6 month subscription to Ancestry.com, the software really only cost me $10 and saved me from making a $600 laptop purchase. So, according to Sequester logic, I saved $590, right?

So far, I've managed to update my Mac OS, install and register FTMfM2, and import my GEDCOM's. It only took one phone call to Ancestry.com tech support (PEBCAK=Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard).

It's a little premature to offer an opinion on the software itself. I'm hoping that it's more intuitive for the way my brain works. That will be a topic for another post.

What is your favorite genealogy software? Leave me a comment below.