Genealogy Forum UK

Thanks, I wondered about a memory stick but didn't know if it would fit on one. I haven't bought the software yet though I'm still deciding.

Hope this is the right section for this I've been thinking of buying the Family Tree Maker software package but wondered if anyone here had used it as I have a question about it. Obviously individual bits of information like census scans, photos, documents ect have to be backed up elsewhere eg on di...

Thanks for the reply. I've just found the recommended specs for FTM and it says at least 1GB ram and I've got 512MB so I definately won't be using that, not at the moment anyway. I've been looking at free programs instead. I'd never heard of gedcom files before I had to google it, it looks a bit tec...

Thanks for the welcome and the FInd My Past recommendation it looks promising.

Hello I've only just decided to start tracing my family and wanted to ask about software. This looked like a good place to start so I've posted my question in the relevant section.

I'm just starting to research my family and didn't know whether to buy FTM 2012 Platinum or not. I fancy the Ancestry membership, and it says it's compatible with windows XP but I've also read (in Amazon reviews) that it's a bit resource hungry so I'm not sure if my PC will cope. Is anyone here usin...