Re: Macintosh and Family Tree Maker?

Steve W. Jackson wrote:
> In article <2008040914283016807-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  tom klein <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> is there any macintosh software that will read or convert FTM files?  i

>> know they've discontinued Family Tree Maker for the mac, but i need to 
>> open an FTM file.
>>
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com
**
> 
> If you can't get the provider to ex****t it into a GEDCOM format for you,

> there are some other possible options.
> 
> If you're planning to continue maintaining this data and have a recent 
> Intel-based Mac, you *could* sully it with Boot Camp or one of the 
> various virtualization programs and run Windows and FTM on it.
> 
> Or you might see if SKS who has FTM would volunteer to open it for you 
> and ex****t it to GEDCOM or some other form you can handle.

I run FTM 16 and FTM 2008 on WinXP sp2 on parallels 3 on Mac OS 10.4.11

on an intel macBook Pro
(Bootcamp may be best avoided unless yoiu have a very specific need)

Hugh W
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