I believe Family Origins has been bought out by Roots Web. Go to their website for the program. -----Original Message----- From: rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tinman853@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:35 AM To: RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [RI] Family Origins Version 10 Help! I'm getting a new computer, but egad, I can't find my FO version 10 software. Does anyone know where I can get a disc?? Charlie B **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------- RIGENWEB MAILING LIST LIST TOPIC: The discussion, exchange, and research of genealogy and history information pertaining to Rhode Island. Despite the list name, the list topic is not related to GenWeb in any way. Contact the List Admin at rigenweb-admin@rootsweb.com, or to search the list archives or find other useful information to help you use the list more effectively, please click on the following link: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/USGenWeb/RIGENWEB.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to RIGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Family Origins has not been "bought out by RootsWeb," or anyone else for that matter. It really is not an appropriate topic for this list but I had used Family Origins since version 3, and for legal reasons involving another company (not RootsWeb) Family Origins 10 is the last version released quite a few years ago and it no longer exists. The creator has a new and far better software which I now use, but Family Origins no nonger exists. The current software is called RootsMagic, but to my knowledge Family Origins is no longer available and hasn't been for five years or more now. David E. Cann decann@infionline.net -----Original Message----- From: rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Floyd Paltridge Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 1:08 PM To: rigenweb@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RI] Family Origins Version 10 I believe Family Origins has been bought out by Roots Web. Go to their website for the program. <snip>

At 12:07 PM 7/23/2008, you wrote: >I believe Family Origins has been bought out by Roots Web. Go to their >website for the program. You may be thinking of Family Tree Maker, which is now owned by the Generations Network, the same company which owns RootsWeb. Margaret

Margaret and others, For the sake of accuracy, Family Origins has NEVER BEEN BOUGHT OUT by anyone because the name and software is still owned by the creator of it. However, a wonderful company named Parsons Technology owned the exclusive DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS to it, and when Parsons Technology was bought by Broderbund (owner of FTM at the time) around 2000, it left Broderbund owning distribution rights to a competitor software and of course they chose not to distribute it in favor of their own product. Today, thanks to nemerous "large fish eats little fish" corporate acquisitions, TGN does in fact now own the distribution rights (but not the software itself), so in order for him to distribute his own software (which is far better than FTM, by the way, and much cheaper) the creator abandoned Family Origins with version 10 and now has RootsMagic, which will be in version 4 later this year when it comes out. Family Origins is not available and ceased to exist well over 5 or 6 years ago, but the new product is RootsMagic and it it can read and import all FO files if someone wants to upgrade to it. We really are getting way beyond what we should be discussing on the list, but if anyone is interested I will be happy to answer further questions about it OFF LIST as well as refer you to another list on RW where I and other RootsMagic users help each other and this would be a very appropriate subject of discussion there. The owner and creator of the software himself also answers questions there as well, whenever time allows it, and you cannot get any better authority on the software than that. David E. Cann decann@infionline.net -----Original Message----- From: rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rigenweb-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Olson Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 4:15 PM To: rigenweb@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RI] Family Origins Version 10 At 12:07 PM 7/23/2008, you wrote: >I believe Family Origins has been bought out by Roots Web. Go to their >website for the program. You may be thinking of Family Tree Maker, which is now owned by the Generations Network, the same company which owns RootsWeb. Margaret