Bill,
No, Ancestry sold FTM (programming code, brand name, etc) to Software MacKiev in January of this year. They also provide support and offer upgrade from older versions of FTM to their new version of that software. Software MacKiev is supposedly ‘partnering’ with Ancestry to rework the Sync system between FTM and Ancestry’s online trees. That company is also reworking the FTM 2014 code (there has already been a version 2014.1 release) to fix many of the memory usage problems with Ancestry’s FTM code, and are supposedly planning a new updated version of FTM. Software MacKiev is the developer of the Mac version of FTM. The FTM interface has a lot of positive features – for example the Sources tab that offers direct access to both sources and citations – along with many negatives (for example, no way to locally change an even sentence for one individual, only global changes to all uses of an event). I’ve spent a number of years with TMG (1995-2002), followed by Genbox (2002-2013), before using FTM and now looking at transferring totally to Legacy. There are many ‘hidden’ differences between FTM and Legacy, for example the way each creates, displays, uses, and transfers via GEDCOM married names. Even though Genbox was ‘discontinued’ (although still available) the end of 2007, I still rate that genealogy software as ‘excellent’, well beyond TMG. Denise From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Hoff Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 7:31 AM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] FTM file to Legacy -can SKS act as intermediary, please I thought FTM no longer selling a product so maybe no necessary support for the software and Win 10. I had serious issues with a FTM update which was never resolved and I switched to Legacy about 2 or 3 years ago. Left FTM files on my Win 7 PC just for reference but have not done so for months, a lot of them. Bill Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2016, at 9:06 PM, Jenny Goldsworthy <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hope the problem is sorted but I find it strange that FTM won't work on or with Windows 10. My old FTM program from the days of Windows 95 and 98 still works as went into it other day to check on some data and exported a file to Legacy. Since I bought it years ago I have gone through numerous computers, XP, Windows 7 and now 10. Just curious has any-one else experienced this. On Wednesday, 31 August 2016 5:06 AM, Judy <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Jenny~ I still have my FTM installed on a Win7 machine and would be happy to receive your sister's file and return it as a GED or import it into Legacy and return it t her. Judy Conklin
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