I've found this pretty good ... the only thing you need to know is that
where most talk about EVENTS ... they call them FACTS .... other than that
I
think it's not so bad for free ......... can be found at
http://www.familytreelegends.com/
regards
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "newbee" <newbee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.computing
To: <gencmp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: Family Tree Maker 8
>I would also like to ditch FTM (any version) for ever. But what is the
> alternative and which program is better ?
>
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:28:23 +0100, Hugh Watkins
> <hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>NoSpam wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm out of the hobby now but FTM did the exact same thing to me. I
>>> installed the new version (2?) and it wouldn't recognize the files
>>> from ver.1. You could not even ged-com your way out of it ( even
>>> though you would loose all your notes, comments, etc.) That's why no
>>> more no more FTM for me - ever.
>>>
>>> I got the original back by doing a system restore to before I got my
>>> hands on ver.2.
>>>
>>> That's when I said 'screw it'. If you cannot even update with the same
>>> product it all seemed like a waste of time.
>>>
>>> But now everything is computerized so it takes a lot less effort that
>>> sitting in those hard chairs at the LSD library :)
>>
>>LOL
>>
>>17 versions later
>>things have changed
>>
>>FTM 2008 is new technology
>>but still not a clean app
>>
>>Hugh W
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