This site works best with Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 5.0 or higher, Netscape, version 4.5 or higher, and Firefox 2.0 and higher. The reason for incompatibility with some earlier versions has to do with the JavaScript programming that is used to make the Active Searches page work. 

NOTE: Recently, some people with Internet Explorer 5.x have been seeing JavaScript errors on the Active Searches page. The message is "Errors on page" (or something like that) and either only part of the page appears or nothing happens. What appears to be the easiest solution to this is to download Internet Explorer 6.0. It's free when downloaded. It works with Windows 98, Windows ME, Window NT 4.0, and Windows 2000. You do not need to have Windows XP to use Internet Explorer 6.0. Click on the Microsoft Internet Explorer link below.

If you are not sure of the version of your browser, go to http://www.familytreesearcher.com/mysearch/problem_reporting.htm. 

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