You need desktop genealogical software! If you are just using Ancestry, you are paying them a subscription fee, while slaving for free to build their enormous world tree. Desktop software is essential to keep your own permanent file, whether you subscribe to their online service or not! If Ancestry decides to sell off their company, or dissolve the corporation, or whatever they eventually do down the road, all your family information that you worked so long to assemble is in jeopardy of permanent loss, forever.
I've been using Family Tree Maker since the early 90's and this version 6 since it came out in 1999. Since then, I have upgraded to newer versions that became increasingly more dependent on on-line data transfer, and increasingly more cluttered and slow. Not surprisingly, Ancestry used a very clever scheme to freely collect (steal) every one of their customer files over 20 years, then without notice discontinued the desktop versions and support in 2015, forcing customers to pay exorbitant fees to use the data they stole from everyone, and cleverly locked them out of. Unless, of course, folks smartly downloaded and saved their data along the way to their own desktops.
This Version 6 is old, and the interface may look outdated, but it's solid as a rock. It does what genealogy software is meant to do. It simply and cleanly, without complications, organizes family trees, and has a terrific internal search engine! No matter how many upgrades genealogical software goes through, the basics remain the same, to make a family tree. Beyond that, it's just useless added screen displays that make the computer slow down, while your data is being uploaded to Ancestry for them to profit by.
Pay no attention to reviews that say it's incompatible with newer Windows versions. That's uninformed nonsense. It's entirely seamless and loads onto any Windows system, including Windows Win 98, Vista, and Windows 10, which I use now, and all work exactly the same. The FTW file it maintains can be saved to any number of files. Also, this software can save to the universal GEDCOM file format for transfer to Mormon based software.
Photos, notes, and records are easily kept on Version 6.
The file it generates is compatible with Ancestry.com (of course, they want your hard work to charge you to look at it!), but likewise, Ancestry files can and should be periodically downloaded and saved to your desktop, or you'll have no file of your own when and if you unsubscribe from the service that they allow you to build for them. It's a manipulative scheme, but until there's a class action suit brought against them, it's the only game in town.
Family Tree Maker has been around for nearly three decades, and is the standard by which all other genealogical software is measured. This version is indeed a very good one, and I highly recommend it.
Bob