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...updated book is the best friend a new family historian can have. Well organized and well researched, Finding Your Roots shows the reader how to make genealogy fun rather than drudgery--how to stay organized, the secret of keeping yourself from feeling as if you're up a family tree rather than building...
...FAMILY TREE by Joan Sweeney (Crown). The book, for children five to eight, gives a child's-eye view of constructing a family tree: "First I start with me. Then comes my big brother, Alan. We're both part of my family tree." By catching them young, Sweeney promises to hook a new generation...
...advertised, FAMILY TREE MAKER from Broderbund (about $82 for the deluxe 15-CD version; $45 for the four-CD version; Windows or Mac) is the easiest and most complete software package available--ideal for beginners. With more than 2 million in sales, it's also the industry leader. The 15-CD package includes a Family Finder index on three CDs, with information on more than 200 million people; two more CDs listing Social Security death-benefits records; five volumes of actual family trees for tens of thousands of families; and an international marriage-records index for more than 1 million...
GENERATIONS FAMILY TREE GRANDE SUITE ($69.95; Windows) by Sierra Home includes 12 CDs of data on 200 million names and resources, plus three different programs: the Generations genealogy software; SnapShot Special Edition, photo-enhancement software that helps you add old family photos and documents to your records; and MasterCook, a cooking software program (experts say recipe collecting is uncannily similar to ancestor collecting), allows you to rearrange your ancestors in a variety of formats with just a click of the mouse...
ULTIMATE FAMILY TREE (about $50 for the five-CD platinum version; $30 for the two-CD deluxe; Windows) by Palladium is another top-selling program whose own genealogy is as complex as any family's. Palladium was bought out in December by the Learning Company, which two months earlier had acquired Broderbund, which itself had acquired two other genealogy-software publishers. A few days after the Palladium deal was announced, Mattel said it would buy the Learning Company...