And, let's face it, they're just entertaining. I suppose some of the purists might turn their noses up at the entertainment value, but I think it is important and valuable. Family Tree Maker also is good at things that don't fall in the whiz bang category, and that's where a lot of the compact discs come in. They contain indexes and, increasingly, even vital data itself. An ever-expanding archive of indexes and data offered on CDs include birth, marriage, census, immigration and land records.
CDs also contain millions of names already linked in family trees.
Well, that's at individual price. That would make genealogy almost as expensive a hobby as golf.