Adrian As always your comments are informed and to the point. I've absolutely no doubt Simon Orde's GEDCOM compatibility is as good as claimed (my confidence rests in the extremely high quality of FH as a whole, plus my own observations picking apart the GEDCOMs themselves). Of course I'm devoted to standards compatibility, and richness within the standard: it was one of just four fundamental factors in my choice of FH (UI, diagramming and queries being the others, and see comment in the P.S.). What we need is evidence-based pressure on any product we *really* want to interface with (in my case Ancestry because, for all its popularity and success in finding contacts for me, Genes Reunited doesn't "do" census) in the hope of making life (a lot) easier. One route would be for FH to provide a few "dumb" export/convert filters (to FTM in particular) and I dare say Simon would be perfectly able to do this with his existing knowledge, even if there's no chance he'll find time for it - and fat chance anyone else cares. Another would be to do it myself! Well, I'm not *all* mouth and no trousers, and i've got as far as parsing a big FH GED into a VBA hierarchy of classes. The next steps would be to output a tree diagram showing the "occupancy" of each element, then compare with other software like FTM. That at least would start to provide the evidence i'm talking about. And be within spitting distance of a filter. But don't hold your breath. Paul P.S. Too many users are swayed by the fancy stuff, that most software does badly anyway. You can usually find third-party software or a web service that'll do clever stuff a hell of a lot better. If you strip out all the frills from genealogy software reviews then (in my opinion) FH comes out consistently on top by a very wide margin. Apart from cosmetics the only issue for many people is "approachability". I often wonder if an entry-level interface could be developed to capture a much larger slice of the market, To be honest i don't really rate Simon's so-called "focus window", though it's probably the right *direction* for users of FTM and the like. Needs a sexier look and at least a simplified Properties pane too.