Comments on: Did You Know

By: Avi Treistman

Avi Treistman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:16:52 +0000

I would like to see the ability to print the age of an individual in the various reports. It could be displayed as Age:70 or as 1930-2000.

By: Kaylene

Kaylene — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:24:19 +0000

Hi, is there a way 2 family members working from 2 different sites can update the same family tree? One of us has FTM 17th edition installed and we’d like to work on this rather than the family tree on the ancestry.com.au website.

By: James Robertson

James Robertson — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:00:40 +0000

Exxport media from FTM 2008 to GEDCOM. I have not found a way to get all my information out of FTM 2008 into a standard GEDCOM file. the export excludes media. Is there a way to do this? If not, is there a plan to provide that feature? Are their 3rd parties who offer coverters?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:35:03 +0000

I bought Family Tree Maker and got the “My Family” version. I see that there are a number of versions and am curious as to the differences. I am on Ancestry.com and have Gen Smarts, as well. Can I get more information from FTM if i buy another version?

By: Tom Melton

Tom Melton — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:19:49 +0000

Thank you for updating us on these facts, Benjamin. I am glad that FTM2008 will support all media types. I am currently using FTM2006 and have in the scrapbook a wide variety of file types (e.g. doc,rtf,pdf,jpg). I am anxious to upgrade to FTM2008, but if I understand correctly, non-image files found in the scrapbook are currently not imported into FTM2008. Is there a plan to implement this capability, and if so, is there now a target release date for it.
Thank you again,

By: Philip Blander

Philip Blander — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:20:09 +0000

I just can’t get to ancestry.com to export my family tree to family tree maker. I see that I am not the only one with that problem.

By: John

John — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:10:47 +0000

If I use only a report on a daughter of a family, why does the report not link in and place the parents names with the daughter instead of ignoring it? This was available in all previous versions.

By: David Rawsthorne

David Rawsthorne — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:30:27 +0000

Susan, yes many users agree, but the programmers are doing a reasonable job at trying to fix the absolutely massive amount of errors, missing features, performance issues etc.

If you update the program to the latest publically available update it does help, but not a huge amount. Service Pack 3 is currently being tested and helps a lot in regards to earlier issues, but it is still far from perfect.

My bet is that when SP5 is released I’ll probably swap from V16 to 2008

By: Cindy Major

Cindy Major — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:01:39 +0000

I would like for FTM 2008 to import my non-jpeg media files. I have many of these files. I recognize that I can manually link them all myself after the import is complete, but I would prefer that they be imported and linked similar to the jpegs.

By: Susan Wahl

Susan Wahl — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:39:12 +0000

I just loaded FTM 2008. I had decided it was about time I upgraded from FTM 7.5…
My older version loads faster and works better. The new version locked up twice on install….and it is a pain to find what you are looking for…Who is the idiot responsible for this cheesy version?