I have never had a perfect changeover from one program to another. You are likely to lose the way things were done in your current program. The creator of Family Origins has a newer program called Rootsmagic. It is very nice and similar in format to Family Origins. You can download a trial from the website. You should not have the compatibility issues other than sentence wording which you will have to tweak. http://www.rootsmagic.com/ Good luck! Christina Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ | This is an appeal to the collective wisdom of the List. | | In trying to transfer my data from "Family Origins" which I have | been using for some years, over to "Family Tree Maker", I appear to | have successfully got the main data into GEDCOM format and copied | to a CD ready to install on FTM on a different machine. | | | Background data such as Notes and Sources applying to individual | family members, however, does not seem to have made the transfer. | | Does anyone know if there is a particular method or trick for | achieving