Actually it is. Many people are running Rootsmagic on a Mac. -----Original Message----- From: GALE GORMAN [mailto:gale_gorman@me.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 6:33 PM To: roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] FTM 2017 But Roots Magic is not available for Mac OS. Gale On Aug 9, 2017, at 6:54 PM, MScheffler <mscheffler@verizon.net> wrote: Lena commented she thought there was another program other than FTM which linked to Ancestry. It is Rootsmagic. If interested see www.rootsmagic.com However, the option to link is only a few weeks available, so it may take awhile before all the kinks are worked out. I have not yet tried synching. If interested, one might want to seek opinions from people who have done this. In my opinion Rootsmagic is a much better program than FTM. That being said, we all have our favorites. Margaret Scheffler -- *Don Varner*
I purchased and downloaded Roots Magic for Mac and opened a GEDCOM exported from FTM2017. Within a couple of minutes I found “Timeline” under “Views” and that feature alone sold me. Thanks to Don and Margaret for the enlightenment! Gale Gorman Houston On Aug 10, 2017, at 12:50 PM, Don Varner <donvarner1@gmail.com> wrote: Actually it is. Many people are running Rootsmagic on a Mac. -----Original Message----- From: GALE GORMAN [mailto:gale_gorman@me.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 6:33 PM To: roots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] FTM 2017 But Roots Magic is not available for Mac OS. Gale On Aug 9, 2017, at 6:54 PM, MScheffler <mscheffler@verizon.net> wrote: Lena commented she thought there was another program other than FTM which linked to Ancestry. It is Rootsmagic. If interested see www.rootsmagic.com However, the option to link is only a few weeks available, so it may take awhile before all the kinks are worked out. I have not yet tried synching. If interested, one might want to seek opinions from people who have done this. In my opinion Rootsmagic is a much better program than FTM. That being said, we all have our favorites. Margaret Scheffler -- *Don Varner* ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message