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Family Matters® Genealogy Shareware
Welcome to the MatterWare™ Family Matters® Genealogy Software Web page. Family Matters 97 is a full 32-bit Microsoft Access application, and is the version you want if you are using Windows 95 or better. Go now to the main MatterWare web site at http://www.matterware.com/. Your registration can be ordered by going to the on-line order form. The cost of registration of Family Matters is US$35. There's now also a CD available with everything on it. And as always, please send me mail and tell me about your own gotta-haves. The MatterWare help line is (803) 396-2011.
Even if you don't use FM as your primary genealogical software, it will import your GEDCOM and generate your own nifty genealogical web site for you (even if you're unregistered). The necessary files to participate in the Gendex distributed genealogical database are also supported. And, you can choose to suppress output for living people, and persons born more than 75 or 100 years ago. It gets better. You can also specify persons and families to either include or exclude, overriding the persons-living selection. It gets still better. Taking advantage of FM's extensive notes capability, you can specify a portion (or all) of individual and family note text as WebNotes for inclusion in your web site. And include scanned pictures as well. And include portions of your Chronicles database of your choosing. You can jump off (but please come back) and see my genealogical web site by going to http://members.aol.com/raynicklas, or you can see an accumulation of links to FM-generated user sites at the FM-User Page.
The complete list of Family Matters' features can be found at http://www.matterware.com/.
If you're already convinced that this is a great value, go to the on-line order form to order Family Matters now! You'll have your registration codes by the end of the day, or at worse another day or so. To order and register Family Matters for full use by snail-mail, send an order form and check or money order payment to: MatterWare, 381 Garnet Court, Fort Mill, SC 29708. Make the payment payable to Ray Nicklas.
If you are a previous Family Matters user, you are already registered for Family Matters 97. You must be at at least version 3.20 for Family Matters 97 to be able to automatically upgrade your databases. Other wise, contact me and I can do it for you.
Once have registered your copy of Family Matters, you will have the ability to store as many families and persons in as many different files as you wish. If you have not yet registered, the only limitation is that once you have reached or exceeded twenty families in a data file, you'll not be able to enter more. (Hint: a GEDCOM import can exceed it by thousands.) Payment of the registration / order fee will provide you with a UserID, Key Code, and the latest version by mail. (But then, if you've downloaded from here, you already have the latest version.) If you're now convinced that this is a great value, go to the on-line order form to order Family Matters now! You'll still have your registration codes by the end of the day, or at worse another day or so!
If you would like to send me e-mail about MatterWare and Family Matters, click here. Just make sure you tell me which version we're talking about, and anything else relevant.