Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) Wrote in message: > On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:05:27 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber > <bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> And so they kill off another program... (Ultimate Family Tree and FTM >>were both, at one time in the past, owned by the same parent company -- > > Do you go as far back as Banner Blue? > > Hugh > My email arrived today as well. IMO, FTMis the only part of the Ancestry suite that is still usable. The tablet app is very limited, and the online tree is unmanageable. The only app that will import partial trees is FTM. The responses to the blog expressed strong opposition. Doug. --

On 12/09/2015 12:32 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote: >>> And so they kill off another program... (Ultimate Family Tree and FTM >>> were both, at one time in the past, owned by the same parent company -- >> >> Do you go as far back as Banner Blue? > My email arrived today as well. IMO, FTMis the only part of the > Ancestry > suite that is still usable. The tablet app is very limited, and > the online > tree is unmanageable. The only app that will import partial trees > is FTM. > > The responses to the blog expressed strong opposition. In other online discussions I see Family Historian being recommended, but I just exported my FTM file in GEDCOM format so it could be read by Family Historian, but the latter complains about many things. People tell me that FTM files and its export format do not completely conform to the GEDCOM standard. Perce