Not a dead product. I bought it in 2013. An update to Windows 7 made it inoperable but the company responded quickly with a fix.
It works and it finds an enormous number of information sources that you should check (some of which don't exist). Of course, receive a list that is 400 pages long (i have 12000 people in my tree) is overkill. Who has time to go through 400 pages?