At 12:41 PM 23-01-14 +0000, Chris Bauman wrote: >2005 is the original, DOS-based program, right? I thought the >divider for comment vs. location was the slash /. With the comment >listed in front of it. At least, that's what I have in the v. 16 >file I still have kicking around. Hi Chris: Family Tree Maker was a product that come onto the market circa 1989. It started off in DOS, without GEDCOM support, but by the mid-90's was was made compatible for DOS and Windows (with GEDCOM support). So it's been around for quite awhile. Through corporate mergers and clever marketing, it became a popular program for its simplicity. Some would say in those days "too simplistic". There weren't many choices except to enter data in a lousy interface that provided few options. Some of the corporations (Broderbund, Mattel, Learning Company and finally Genealogy.com) had ended up with other programs including Ultimate Family Tree, which in the late 90's was regarded the Rolls Royce of Genealogy Programs. In the early 2000's, Family Origins, Generations (Reunion for Windows), Roots-Family Gathering-Ultimate Family Tree were all discontinued in favour of FTM. 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry.com Scroll down to Family Tree Maker and you'll get a potted history. Under FTM Version History, press "show" for more information on past versions. I've been told that FTM-2014 for Windows and FTM-Mac 3, are nearly identical to each other ... a big plus for Mac users, who have been lagging behind the Windows editions. John in Oz. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Maynard Phillip Island, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Let there be Peace on Earth, Justice and Prosperity ... ... and an End to Violence, Poverty and Greed."

I was responding to BJ's comment: "Also go through your Comment/Location field and ensure you insert a semicolon (;) between the comment and the actual place or location name. If the field only contains a comment e.g. many Occupation facts, place a semicolon after the data in the field. " I was trying to clarify which character should be used to separate comments from locations. I thought it was the (/) not the (;). I would hate for someone to go to all the work making an incorrect change to their file. But maybe I'm wrong. Christine, IBSSG Life's short . . . do genealogy first! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Maynard" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 8:16:38 AM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM 2014 At 12:41 PM 23-01-14 +0000, Chris Bauman wrote: >2005 is the original, DOS-based program, right? I thought the >divider for comment vs. location was the slash /. With the comment >listed in front of it. At least, that's what I have in the v. 16 >file I still have kicking around. Hi Chris: Family Tree Maker was a product that come onto the market circa 1989. It started off in DOS, without GEDCOM support, but by the mid-90's was was made compatible for DOS and Windows (with GEDCOM support). So it's been around for quite awhile. Through corporate mergers and clever marketing, it became a popular program for its simplicity. Some would say in those days "too simplistic". There weren't many choices except to enter data in a lousy interface that provided few options. Some of the corporations (Broderbund, Mattel, Learning Company and finally Genealogy.com) had ended up with other programs including Ultimate Family Tree, which in the late 90's was regarded the Rolls Royce of Genealogy Programs. In the early 2000's, Family Origins, Generations (Reunion for Windows), Roots-Family Gathering-Ultimate Family Tree were all discontinued in favour of FTM. 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry.com Scroll down to Family Tree Maker and you'll get a potted history. Under FTM Version History, press "show" for more information on past versions. I've been told that FTM-2014 for Windows and FTM-Mac 3, are nearly identical to each other ... a big plus for Mac users, who have been lagging behind the Windows editions. John in Oz. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

John M wrote I've been told that FTM-2014 for Windows and FTM-Mac 3, are nearly identical to each other ... a big plus for Mac users, who have been lagging behind the Windows editions. John A review of FTM Mac 3 was written up in the February GUM newsletter It is nearly parity in features with FTM 2014, and despite still being only 32-bit, is still significantly faster than FTM 2014 (64-bit) on the same computer The lack of resource hungry .NET and certain CAB files in the Windows version not required in the Mac version is responsible for this The other great thing is now that database used in both versions is the same, so FTM 2014 can open a file created on FTMM3 and vice versa Bye- bye the arcane File Migration Utility (cheers) Also the new common database seems to be even more robust that the ones used previously All good news John D