- #Ancestry family tree maker discontinued how to#
- #Ancestry family tree maker discontinued full#
- #Ancestry family tree maker discontinued software#
Some customers have been using this one program for nearly twenty years to record their family history and genealogy information.
It was made by a company called Broderbund back then it was only later that purchased it and added it to their company.
#Ancestry family tree maker discontinued software#
This is a big deal in the genealogy world, since FTM has been around since the mid-1990’s, and was one of the first family tree software programs available. Since FTM will not be available for purchase after the end of the year, this means no more upgrades to the software, and will stop supporting it after January of 2017. It saves a lot of time in collecting and cataloging research. There are others who use the online feature of the FTM desktop software to connect with and automatically find records and download them to their family tree.
This can sometimes represent decades of work. The information on the site will also be stored in the cloud, so if the cloud or Ancestry ever goes down or out of business, people stand to lose their family trees. This means people who have used solely to build their family tree will have to keep up an annual membership to the site to be able to access all the work they have done on their family tree. The only explanation the company has offered is that it does not see any profit in desktop software going forward, and so will focus on online offerings. Ancestry has not offered any suggestions for alternate solutions.
#Ancestry family tree maker discontinued full#
Their blog is full of comments from displeased people. All I get is the following spinning icon for several minutes and I have tried several different browsers.Īs far as I am aware as of there are also no third-party application that supports the TreeSync API or other browser plug-in that can scrape the images from your trees which is less preferred as they would have to be manually re-associated but that is better than losing them all announced it will discontinue making its acclaimed FTM (Family Tree Maker) software, and there are a lot of angry customers. the media file itself (this example I added to and did not come from another location).īut when you re-import it into a local program I still get prompted (MacFamilyTree) for location of the referenced media files as it does not seem to be able to automatically download them and haven't found any program that will.ĭirectly taking the list of URLs in the GEDCOM file and putting them into a browser does not open them, even if logged into with a paid subscription. The GEDCOM itself has a file location that is a URL pointing back to vs. The existing Download your GEDCOM function does not contain images, even the ones I manually uploaded myself and did not get added via and all I get is a.
#Ancestry family tree maker discontinued how to#
How to download images from those I have personally added to my tree? I currently do not own or plan on purchasing the now discontinued FamilyTreeMaker.Īs mentioned in this "What do FamilyTree Maker users do" question one way is to purchase and utilize FamilyTreeMaker to download the images using TreeSync but Jan Murphy pointed out TreeSync may not download all media one has uploaded.įamilyTreeMaker is being end of life'd and no longer supported at the end of 2016, so what are the alternative ways to download a GEDCOM with associated images vs.
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