In the 1990s and 2000s, I kept dipping my toe into e-genealogy and then pulling it back out because all the programs I tried seemed so limited. But the availability of 23andMe genome sequencing convinced me to dip my toe back in last month, and FTM 2014 is out (I'm using it), and I'm impressed. I was able to quickly and easily import into it the half-dozen GEDs which'd been produced by various relatives and me over the past ten years by various programs (those toe-dips), and FTM neatly and painlessly stitched them all together. I can think of improvements, but all in all, it's light-years ahead of versions from the 2000s. I can't compare it with other programs for the PC (whether Mac or Win), since I haven't tried them (recently). I'm not sure I'd call myself a FTM fanboy, but I'm pleasantly surprised. No crashes yet, at any rate. (Running it under Win8Pro x64.) Best, Eric Shanghai OpenPGP: 0x1AF7E6F2 ● Skype: oneota ● XMPP/OTR: berekum@jabber.ccc.de ● Silent Circle: +1 312 614-0159 > -----Original Message----- > From: autosomal-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:autosomal-dna- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Paul > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 23.20 > To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] Re importing gedcoms > > Although the collection on Ancestry.com is indisputably the best, its > companion software, FTM, is also one of the most unintuitive and bug- > ridden genealogy software available. They are releasing the new 2014 > version for pre-order...only in the US at this time. Hopefully, it will fix some > of the problems. The FTM version for the Mac will lag behind in time and > features, as had always been the case. > > I have about a half dozen genealogy programs on my computer. Each has a > feature that I like. The only feature that I like for FTM is that it syncs with > Ancestry.com. > > There is no happy solution to this conundrum.