What is the best Family Tree Maker on the market

[DozyDora]

Hi everybody,

I know there is a new Family Tree Maker released every year but some are not as good as others.  As I am now working, I stopped subscribing to Ancestry but am worried that my extensive trees will be deleted.  So which is the best Family Tree Maker for this purpose or is it just as easy to create a spreadsheet?

Dora

[Braindead]

I use Family Tree Maker 2012 which serves all of my purposes. I looked at the latest version but thought there wan't enough difference to justify the outlay for a new version.

In FTM 2012, when starting a new tree, there is the option to download your trees from Ancestry. That may be useful to you.

If I were going to be buying FTM now, I would choose the 2014 Platinum Edition as this gives 6 months access to all Ancestry's UK records. It is available on Amazon for much less than the cost of the subscription on its own.

[KGarrad]

I stopped subscribing to Ancestry but am worried that my extensive trees will be deleted. 

Your tree will not be deleted, but you might not have access to Ancestry's records (census, etc).

I stopped my Ancestry sub earlier this year, and I can still view and edit all my trees.

[DozyDora]

Thank you both for your replies.  I think I will invest in the 2014 Platinum version for I had also read reviews on it on Amazon.  One person even went as far as saying that you could go on buying them and get six months' subscription free.  I wouldn't do that but six months' subscription would be useful.  I was actually paying the Premium rate of £12.95 a month so that I could view parish records, London Metropolitan Archive records and passenger lists - do you know if the six months' subscription is this Premium rate or merely the basic rate?

Dora