icefox wrote: > Hi! > > I have both FTM 2005 and FTM 2008. Let's just say that FTM 2008 was an > interesting idea that was badly executed and hope they can fix it in > the future. In the meantime that means I'm going to continue to use > FTM 2005. For what looks like a very long time at this point. I > understand that v16 was the last version that resembled FTM's simple > uncluttered design. So, is it in my best interest to try and find a > copy of FTM v16? Or are the differences between 2005 and v16 so slight > as to be negligible? > > For those about to recommend their favorite genealogy program other > than FTM please don't bother. I appreciate the thought but I've tried > at least a dozen of them now, from the most obscure to the most highly > touted, and they've all been vetoed for one reason or another. Usually > because they can't be minimized small enough and still be legible, > their data entry was ridiculously complicated and slow, or their > screens were just flat unpleasant to look at. All opinions of which I > had to agree with. And since I'm getting help from someone who reads a > language I do not, to enter over a thousand years worth of family > history from my grandmother's manuscript, I'm going to use whatever > program we can agree on. :) FTM 16 was a free upgrade from 2006 slightly better management of sources I remember Hugh W -- For genealogy and help with family and local history in Bristol and district http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brycgstow/ http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG