by Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 10, 2008 at 02:33 AM
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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