It wouldn't surprise me at all if Legacy Family Tree goes by the wayside now that they are owned by MyHeritage. MyHeritage has their own genealogy software program, Family Tree Builder, that synchronizes directly with trees on MyHeritage (if you have one). Daniel Horowitz has been actively demoing Family Tree Builder the past several weeks through his Ask the Expert 30-minute webinars on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Family Tree Builder has some of the features found in Legacy Family Tree, but nowhere near all the bells and whistles. legacy is far superior.This past February at RootsTech I asked Daniel when MyHeritage would enable the Legacy Family Tree program to synchronize with trees on MyHeritage. His answer was, "Not this year." Very disappointing. I get tired of having to maintain trees on multiple websites, or periodically export new GEDCOM files to them, which restarts record matching all over.My impression is that MyHeritage is focusing their efforts on DNA tools, as that seems to be where the money is these days. I don't think the big companies are interested in investing time in computer-based software (as evidenced by Ancestry abandoning Family Tree Maker a few years ago). They all want us to build our trees on their websites, which really makes us a commodity that they use to leverage their business model. Our trees help them bring in more customers for DNA and matching.Just my opinion. I hope I'm wrong, but as a retired software engineer, I'm doubtful. Everything is moving away from personal computers and into the cloud.Robin -------- Original message --------From: elblankens...@gmail.com Date: 6/20/20 7:57 PM (GMT-08:00) To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] New Version of Legacy Family Tree? Hello…Does anyone know if there are any plans for a major upgrade to Legacy Family Tree (i.e. v10)? It has been over three years since the release of v9. If I recall correctly, v10 was on the verge of being release a couple of years ago. Is it my imagination, but ever since Legacy Family Tree was acquired by MyHeritage the updates / enhancements have seemed to come at a snail pace. I really do like Legacy Family Tree and have recommended to many of my friends and relatives. I really liked the frequent free fixes / enhancements and looked forward to them and was one of the first to pay for an upgrade. The initial cost and upgrades were always reasonably. I am just afraid that Legacy is not part of the long-term direction or focus for MyHeritage. I just hope this is not the case since I don’t want to see Legacy fall to the side of the road like many other genealogy programs.
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