I just sent a reply to Judy that included a link to the following notes. However, I don't expect to see that published as it has a link. To allow others to see my feelings on FTM-2014, I am including the notes I still use FTM-16 as my database is over 223,000 persons and FTM-2014 just cannot handle that number of people and have any speed of response. I only use FTM-2014 to see what others have on the family lines that I am searching. FTM-2014 This report will now be generated as I have received my release version of FTM-2014. I was a Beta tester and all of my experience has been with that Beta version. The items listed below show some of the short comings of FTM-2014: 1. This new family of FTM-20XX has a closed database and does not allow other programs to read from the database like FTM-2006/16 did. This does not allow programs like Legacy Charting to generate special charts for Y-Chromosome and mtDNA Chromosome carriers for families that I have in my FTM-2006/16 database. 2. The speed of import from a very large database of over 211,000 individuals is very good and a little faster than FTM-2012. the rate of import is about 282-296/sec or it takes a little less than 20 minutes to import the complete database. the new feature of having the sorted Index as a file is a great time saver when using the program. 3. When generating genealogy reports in books, the number of generations in the FTM-16 book are not carried forward into the FTM-2014 book. This is a real pain as every book has to be regenerated at a considerable cost in time. In my case, I will stay with FTM-16 until this is cleared up. 4. Adopted children in a family unit are treated the same as natural children as far as kinship is concerned. This is a huge oversight and needs to have an option that will not treat these adopted children as natural children. 5. There must be an option to allow sources to be shown as in-line rather than as end-notes. End-notes may be fine for short reports but any report needs to have in-line sources to allow the reader to see what the source is rather than trying to find the notes at the end of a chapter. Make this an option like in FTM-2006/16.. the Dev Team must have never read any large formal reports or they would never force a person to use the only method that is presently used in FTM-2014. 6. The errors in the import and export of GED files in the Beta version of FTM-2014 has now been cleared up. I did an export to GED then imported that GED file back into FTM-2014 and no error were reported, all media was present and the stats shown on import were as follows: Individuals: 211217, families: 71,641, Media: 69, rate of import was 780 records/sec. 7. When a GED file is produced that includes the Media, it appears that only the links to the Media may be exported and not the actual Media document. When using FTM-2014 it is impossible to determine if this is true or not but I have Legacy 8.0 and if I import that GED file into Legacy then some of the images are present but when the Legacy database is backed up then the Media portion of the backup contains the directory structure that is for the FTM files and not any new structure that Legacy created. The way to really test this would be to transfer the GED file that contains the Media to a different Computer that had FTM-2014 installed on it and see if the imported results contained the actual Media or are they missing. I was able to prove this when I did an import of the GED file into FTM-2014 after the original file that was used to produce the GED file had been deleted. The resulting FTM-2014 file had the Media items listed with the proper names but no images were present. If the original media still exists the they are transfered to the new Media directory making it appear that the Media was contained in the GED file. This is a disaster waiting to happen if anyone thinks that the GED file can be used to transfer their database to a new computer or different genealogy program. 8. One short coming that I noticed when doing the export to GED was that the data box that shows the number of individuals, families, sources, and media did not show the number of media and did not remain on the screen so that the user could see the results. It also appears that any information in this window is only the last update and not the final numbers. This needs to be fixed to allow a person to either do a screen snip of the information or have the date sent to a log file. 9. The information shown in the summary window when importing a file should have the time for each segment and not just the total time. Why should a person have to sit in front of their computer with a stopwatch to see how long each segment takes. the segments are for Individuals, families, sources, and writing to disk. Presently only the total time is shown. 10. Other items as I find them. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold E. Krause 1611 Arlington Ave., Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA, S7H 2Y6 Tel: 306 374-3348 email address: <mailto:arnie-krause@shaw.ca> arnie-krause@shaw.ca Homepage: http://members.shaw.ca/arnie-krause/index.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Arnie I don't know why you would thing a link or url would not show up It did in your previous post with no problem But thanks for posting the details which is preferred anyway Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 21/02/2015 15:21, Arnie-Krause via wrote: > I just sent a reply to Judy that included a link to the following notes. > However, I don't expect to see that published as it has a link. To allow > others to see my feelings on FTM-2014, I am including the notes