6/1/2002
By Rick Crume
Ancestry Family Tree couples genealogy software with automatic searches of Ancestry's online databases. The results will be an instant hit with everyone in your pedigree.
When Ancestry debuted its new family tree software recently, plugged-in genealogists had reason to take notice. With
Ancestry Family Tree <
aft.ancestry.com>, the online-data giant has finally expanded its genealogy empire into the software realm — with exciting results for its 500,000 subscribers.
Not only does this full-featured program stack up favorably to other genealogy software, it's also designed to help you use Ancestry's online offerings more efficiently. Subscribers know that finding your ancestors among the site's 1.3 billion names can be a challenge. Ancestry Family Tree makes it easier to search the site's plethora of databases, retrieve information and integrate it with your existing files. And Ancestry subscribers can download the software for free. You'll need at least 10MB hard disk space, 32MB RAM and Internet Explorer 4.01 on a PC with Windows 95 or later.
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