Are we getting a bit off topic here?? On 2 Sep 2016 01:43, "Charles Personal" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, September 1, 2016 4:46 PM > *To:* 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]> > *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] > <[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 > > ------------------------------ > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >
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