At 06:15 AM 24-01-14 -0500, Randy wrote: > >From: John Maynard<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> > >That was then. What was a bad product in the 90's ... FTM has become > >the Mercedes Benz of the 2010's. A history of FTM's (and Ancestry's) > >development may be found at: Wikipedia-Ancestry.Com > >RANDY: >If it was such a bad product, why are many of us still using it? >Becase it's simple to use, >no prettied up pages, no colored boxes, I can navigate in my sleep. >I have added over 18,000 >people over the years. I own copies of all the versions since, >including for Mac, and I >dislike them all. They are WAY too complicated for ME to navigate. >Yes, the reports leave >a little to be disired. I only use the other vesions (and Legacy) to >run specific reports >that I can't run in v16. YMMV And I'm running it on a Win7, 64 bit machine. Hi Randy. I was referring to Family Tree Maker in the 1990's, where there were far superior programs. FTM Ver. 16 came out in September 2006, and probably was a good product for its time. However, I've been very impressed with FTM-2012 and FTM-2014. In my book, these releases are exceptional. FTM-2014 will become even better with further patch updates. My two netcoins worth. 8-) John M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Maynard Phillip Island, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let there be Peace on Earth, Justice and Prosperity ... ... and an End to Violence, Poverty and Greed."