Master Genealogist                          Silver     Gold
                             			     ($99.00)							             
Unlimited People, names, events & text        X         X
Unlimited Sources, citations, repositories    X         X
User-defined types of events, names           X	        X
       & relationships	
Integrated Research/Correspondence Log        X	        X
     with expense tracking
Integrated Multimedia log supports screen     X	        X 	
     images, sound & text
Supports conflicting data, theories, 	      X		X 
     candidates & uncertain data
Optional Surety assessment	              X	        X
Customizable toolbar		              X	        X 
Spell checker, relationship calculator,       X	        X 
      & other valuable utilities
Import data directly from 20+ genealogy       X		X 
     programs or GEDCOM
Backup/restore with compression	              X	        X
Family Group Sheet, pedigrees, ahnentafel,    X		X
      & other standard charts
Custom list with powerful query engine	      X	        X
Professional narrative reports with user      X 	X
       control over every sentence
Output reports to Rich Text Format 	      X	        X
       (RTF)/(ASCII)
Output directly to the native format of 	        X
       50+ word processor	
Indexes of people, places & marriages			X
Table of contents					X
Images integrated in some reports			X
Endnotes and Bibliography output to    	      X       	X
screen/printer/file
Footnotes output to file				X
Output to HTML for webpages		                X
National Geographic Names Database (GEOBASE)	        X
On Disk Reference Manual	              X		X
Printed Reference Manual			        X

From Ancestry Genealogy Library
The Source: A Guidebook of American Geneaology		X
1854 Gazetteer of the United States: historical         X
    directory of place names					
Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary	        X
Genealogical Publications: A List of 50,000		X 
    Genealogical Resources at the Library of Congress	X
Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County	        X
     & Town Resources
American Biographical Library: Complete biographical    X
   sketches of more than 750,000 Americans born before 1900	


A few extras mentioned on the Master Genealogist:

   
Manage volumes of research data, photos and sources
   
Organize a research trip, including "To do" list
   
Print blank forms and fill in the blank narratives
   
Track your correspondence and expenses
   
Produce stunning wall charts for a family gathering
   
Publish a book, complete with table of contents, footnotes, indexes and bibliography
   
Pursue theories
   
Record all the evidence, not just your conclusions
   
Trace medical conditions
   
Document witnesses and people in other roles of an event
   
Search for Soundex or true phonetic matches
   
Reseach log
   
Relationship calculator
   
Regnal date converter
   
Date calculator
   
Address book
   
Wall & fan charts
   
Groom index/bride index
   
Missing data, conflicting data, sensitive data, uncertain data disproven data
   
much much more


Comparisons
				Master   Family Tree Ultimate
                             Genealogist  Maker 6.0   Family
                                (Gold)               Tree 3.0
   									
Genbridge wizard imprts data	 X
   directly from 20+ formats
Unlimited events per person	 X	    X 	        X
Unlimited Notes per person       X			X
Repeat key on each field         X
Special handling of sensitive    X
    events
Display names in different       X
  colors depending on characteristics	 
Master Source List	         X	     X	        X
Master Repository List		 X
Professional Source Templates	 X		        X
Cite Source of every name 	 X
   variation
Cite Source for all names and 	 X 
    events at once
Export to native Word, 	         X
  WordPerfect & 50+ other formats
Index of people by last name	 X	     X	        X
Index of people by given name	 X
Index of places			 X		        X
Index of marriages	         X
Suppress unreliable data from    X
   reports
Report design wizard	         X
Independant fonts for first &    X		         X
    last name, dates & places
Narrative reports can include 	 X
   fill-in-blanks for missing data