I don't think there is any worry about unrealistic expectations. The purpose of the list and website, in addition to giving us somewhere to discuss all this, is to inform ourselves and other TMG users about the capabilities and issues of other programs and how to get TMG to play as well as possible with them as we move away from TMG. That has nothing to do with what the other companies decide to support or not. If they choose to listen in and get good ideas, that's great, but the momentum is the movement away from TMG, not the movement toward any particular package. What I hope you'll use the list and website for is first of all, to expose all those little items we've been depending on all these years so that anyone leaving TMG--whenever that may be--thinks about those things and how they affect them, and second, John N's item #2: figuring out how best to adapt ourselves to other programs. I'm delighted that people are coming forward with tools to make that easier as well, and I like seeing the personal experiences as people try things. Barbara Refugees list mom On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Julie Rosales via < tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I tend to agree with John. I also think that what program everyone selects > to migrate to will have to be based on that person's most important > attributes. > Some folks will stay with TMG for years and years and others will stay for > a shorter period of time probably based on when there's a TMG error or dll > or other file that cannot be corrected due to a windows update or other > software update. > > > Realistically, the top 5 list will not be the same for everyone. > -- Barbara Zanzig TMG-REFUGEES list admin admin email: *TMG-REFUGEES-admin@rootsweb.com <TMG-REFUGEES-admin@rootsweb.com>* list address: *http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/TMG-REFUGEES.html <http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/TMG-REFUGEES.html>* list website: *https://sites.google.com/site/tmgrefugees <https://sites.google.com/site/tmgrefugees>*