At 01:44 PM 04-02-14 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >I agree with Jay. I had every bit of my Tree documented and on >World Family Tree. I wrongly assumed FTM had preserved those. Now >I have to re-input all my data because FTM cannot read the >disc. That is what happens when you burn out and skip a couple of updates. What you can do is get an old version of FTM to read your disc and then export to GEDCOM 5.5. From there you can import all your data into a later version of FTM, such as ver. 2012 or 2014. Easy As? John M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Maynard Phillip Island, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let there be Peace on Earth, Justice and Prosperity ... ... and an End to Violence, Poverty and Greed."

Will FTM 2005 read those disks? That is free, somewhere or other on the Ancestry site. Rosemary On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:39 PM, John Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: > At 01:44 PM 04-02-14 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > >I agree with Jay. I had every bit of my Tree documented and on > >World Family Tree. I wrongly assumed FTM had preserved those. Now > >I have to re-input all my data because FTM cannot read the > >disc. That is what happens when you burn out and skip a couple of > updates. > > What you can do is get an old version of FTM to read your disc and > then export to GEDCOM 5.5. From there you can import all your data > into a later version of FTM, such as ver. 2012 or 2014. Easy As? > > John M. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Maynard > Phillip Island, Australia > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Let there be Peace on Earth, Justice and Prosperity ... > ... and an End to Violence, Poverty and Greed." > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi John, Tell me what disk you file was on what the tree # was and if I have it then I will try to recover it for you. Cheers, Arnie ------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold E. Krause 1611 Arlington Ave., Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA, S7H 2Y6 Tel: (306) 374-3348 email address: [email protected] Homepage: http://members.shaw.ca/arnie-krause/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Maynard Sent: 04 February, 2014 4:40 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Online Trees At 01:44 PM 04-02-14 -0500, [email protected] wrote: >I agree with Jay. I had every bit of my Tree documented and on World >Family Tree. I wrongly assumed FTM had preserved those. Now I have to >re-input all my data because FTM cannot read the disc. That is what >happens when you burn out and skip a couple of updates. What you can do is get an old version of FTM to read your disc and then export to GEDCOM 5.5. From there you can import all your data into a later version of FTM, such as ver. 2012 or 2014. Easy As? John M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Maynard Phillip Island, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let there be Peace on Earth, Justice and Prosperity ... ... and an End to Violence, Poverty and Greed." ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message