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From: "rharper" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Wishing to Compare Some Family Tree Maker Notes!
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:30:44 -0700


I don't know the answer to your FTM question, but I ran into the same
problem. I too was very happy with version 6.0 and had no desire to upgrade.
But someone sent me a gedcom I really wanted to see, and I couldn't open it.
So I upgraded to version 7.5 for $19.95 plus tax. As I figured, the bells
and whistles were no improvement as far as I was concerned, but it did open
the gedcom. And today I get an email announcement from FTM telling me that
version 8.0 is now out.
Ron
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From: Jean Mayfield Cuevas <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:52 AM
Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Wishing to Compare Some Family Tree Maker Notes!


>Good Afternoon!
>
>It appears that there is some life on this list today! :) I don't know
>whether it's the list or my ISP, but I have not seen nearly the volume the
>past several days.
>
>I wanted to ask if any of you have had problems getting or sending
>.GEDCOMS? I started to share a portion of my FTM file with someone, and
>got a small window which popped up, saying that I could not share my files
>with the person because he had 7.0.
>
>I was a little surprised, to say the least! I always thought that GEDCOMS
>were sort of universal, and could be shared between various genealogy
>programs, no matter what their version. I called FTM and was told that
>there was no work-around for it. I have 6.0, and had not planned to do an
>upgrade for a long time. Is this just a problem between two FTM programs,
>or does 7.0 FTM outstrip all the older genealogy programs, as well?
>
>I would be interested in hearing, if you know.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jean C.
>
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