I use the freeware program “Classic Shell” to make Win10 look and feel like Win 
7. It works very well to hide many of Win 10 problems.
For e-mail I use Microsoft Live Mail, a free download from Micorsoft and not 
the e-mail that come with Win 10. I use Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 
and not “Edge’ that came with Win 10. Win 8 and 10 are the best things that 
ever happened for Apple.

Carol & Charlie
[email protected]

From: Bill Hoff 
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 4:46 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group' 
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] [Legacy] FTM file to Legacy -can SKS act 
asintermediary, please

Denise

Thanks for the FTM update.  I’m not that great with software and file 
conversions, backups and switching use between computers.  I would like to do 
some research while on an extended trip beginning next week but not exactly 
sure how to go about that.  I do have Legacy installed on a Windows 10 computer 
I will be taking with me but I normally work with a Windows 7 computer and 
prefer Windows XP.  I don’t like Windows 10 at all but then I’ve told my kids 
no more devices as gifts please.  Not up to it all any longer.

Bill 

 

From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Denise Moss-Fritch
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 3:07 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] FTM file to Legacy -can SKS act as intermediary, please

 

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]> 
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]> 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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