Good Value - Family Tree Maker and Ancestry Access (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, August 08, 2011, 01:10 (4863 days ago)

First, I hope I'm not breaking the Forum rules here, I just want to make members aware of what seems an excellent software deal.

Second, please be totally assured I am NOT associated in any way with Tesco, in fact quite the opposite, I dislike them enormously and would never promote their business.

However I've just seen what seems to be the best value way available for buying Family Tree Maker 2011 Platinum software which includes 6 months Ancestry access.
I've been following the prices of this software for some months now, both in shops and online. The best price I've seen is online at abt £29 on Amazon. On Ebay new copies sell for £35+, secondhand but unused ones for £30.

Currently on the Tesco Deals website this s/w can apparently be bought for just £19 in Clubcard Vouchers, thats their "reward" vouchers scheme. Of course you may not like the FTM software (which currently sells for £10+ alone I think), and I've read some very critical reviews of it compared to earlier versions (2009 seems most popular ?, Forum views very welcome please). Looking at all the earlier hence cheaper versions of this software still available "new" to find the cheapest Ancestry access works out at abt £3 per month, so £19 for current version including 6 months access to Ancestry can't be bad, cheaper than a magazine subscription !
I'm particularly annoyed as during a tidyup last week I found £15of vouchers that had expired 2 months ago (we stockpile them for our summer holiday use), oops.

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=1656&bci=4294962537|Software

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B003S3RLLW/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&show...

Again, as someone yet to use any of these subscription programmes (just how do we chose which company ?), but who wants access at home instead of using the mindnumbingly slow free Ancestry at my local Library, this does sound a good deal even if it involves giving "money" back to Tesco.

I hope this helps. I would also very much welcome any advice if anyone thinks there are better subscription services than Ancestry to use, such as Findmypast or Genes Reunited perhaps ?. On the face of it they all offer similar records to a newbie like me, but I always buy "British" wherever possible. Maybe it's just the apparently lo-spec Library version I've used, but after inputting English surnames and English placenames wrt British Army Regiments of the Great War, I am a patient man but waiting for it to eventual regurgitate Lee's Army of Tennessee etc etc is somewhat frustrating to put it mildly. Are all these sites US based ?.