Ancestral Quest www.ancquest.com

Family Ties www.individualsoftware.com

Family Origins www.familyorigins.com

Family Tree Maker www.familytreemaker.com

Generations Grande Suite www.sierrahome.com

Legacy Family Tree www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

The Master Genealogist www.whollygenes.com

Personal Ancestral File www.familysearch.org

Ultimate Family Tree www.uftree.com

What about Macs?
If you're a Macintosh user and deeply into genealogy, the limited choices of genealogy programs may be enough to push you into Bill Gates' clutches. Of the programs listed above, only Family Tree Maker and PAF have Mac versions, and the Mac version of Family Tree Maker lags far behind its Windows counterpart in features. There's also one full-featured Mac-only program, Reunion.

Family Tree Maker (v. 3.02) www.familytreemaker.com

Personal Ancestral File www.familysearch.org

Reunion www.leisterpro.com

The Stareware Alternative
Want to try out a program before committing yourself to it? Download these popular shareware genealogy programs and give them a test run before you buy.

Brother's Keeper ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Brothers_Keeper/

Kith & Kin www.spansoft.org