On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:18:50 +0100, Kurt F <kurt.fredriksson@ieee.org> wrote: >I am a user of FTM since its DOS-time. But I stopped upgrading and I am >happy using FTM 2006. More power to those who prefer any version of FTM. Each is entitled to his personal preference. I think that preference is often what we have used for a long time. >I prefer to keep all information in my own system and not in any form of >cloud. I am not storing any pictures in the FTM-database. I can´t see >the advantage. I agree. But I have not come up to this century in a lot of respects. My pictures are stored in a folder, My Pictures. Why not? >I have looked at most of the other genealogy programs If I have not tried it I have not heard of it. >but stayed with a >program where I can concentrate on the research instead of finding out >HOW to do different tasks. I am at an age where continuing to learn hopefully delays the onset of my inability to learn. It's nice to see some new contributors here. It's a good place to ask questions and get answers. And even the most elementary questions, when asked for the umpteenth time, are treated with respect by the very knowledgeable ones here. >I´m using GreatFamily to produce web-pages and The Complete Genealogy >Reporter to produce reports to interested relatives. Some of us (and all of me) have never heard of those programs. Thanks for the hint. >BTW, I am a Swede and have most of my relatives here, but I am sticking >to English in my system. ...which brings us back full circle to genealogy. I am Haplo Group R1a1a. That group probably arose about 10,000 years ago in the Steppes, moved to central Europe and many went to the English Isles via Scandanavia. At that point there is a "slight gap" in my knowledge until 1790 when my GG Grand was born in NC or maybe 1693 when his possible/probable ancestor immigrated from somewhere. >My largest complain is >that it is impossible to get the dates according to ISO-standard, >YYYY-MM-DD. The closest FTM offers is DD-MM-YYYY. I have thought about that several times. In business the month and day would seem to be the most important. Decades ago I used February 28, 2013. I switched to the military method 28 Feb 2013 to avoid the comma. In genealogy I would say the year is more important. But in about 4 hours I think the time should be 1300, not 1 PM - that's CST, not Greenwich - or maybe it is UCT now. Hugh