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[Guest]

I see that the current Computeractive has an article about using a pc for family history (without mentioning FH!). Certain other software suppliers seem to use recommendations by this type of mag in their publicity, and I wonder how many folk realise that a pc bloke is not necessarily best qualified to comment on genealogy products.
The same article bangs on about how easy it is to get info over the net. Even the numerous genealogy mags rarely highlight the incidence of transcription error you can find in the indices offered by all the firms now leaping on the bandwagon. Grrr!
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[Jane]

The thing that has annoyed me is the fact that Family Tree Maker has been badged as the 'Who do you think you are' program when for both series Family Historian was used.

[martync]

Yes I agree that at least seems strange. I made a post earlier where I said I wondered if it was honest of the BBC, that was perhaps the wrong word but it does seem very strange when one package is selected by the actual people doing the research for the program and then another program is badged with the programs ident. While it is the BBC's trade mark so it can do what it likes with it, it does seem a bit tacky to me doing this on what I assume is a commercial basis when their own experts selected another package with very little price difference between the packages. Part of the BBC brief it to educate and inform and I do not feel this does much for their reputation on the inform part of that brief.