Comments on: Family Tree Maker for the Mac!

By: Aud Shy

Aud Shy — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:04:09 +0000

When????????????

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:49:52 +0000

As a Mac user for many years this is great news I hope they take advantage of all the great things about a Mac.

By: Frank Prater

Frank Prater — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:30:56 +0000

I am a user of Family Tree Maker for windows, I also have a Macbook Thus I have two questions, will there be a email sent to Windows users about the mac version? If Not I would like to have an email sent to my email address as to when it will comes out.
Another question is when in 2010 will it come out?

Thanks
Frank Prater

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:49:42 +0000

I just purchased a MAC, after years as a PC person, only to be shocked when I found out my beloved FTM is not available. I guess I will have to keep using my old PC till the new one comes out! Hurry up!

By: Bill Manning

Bill Manning — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:09:07 +0000

As A PC user for 25 years I switched to Mac 8 years ago (I’m running Windows on my Mac at this moment). I am VERY glad to hear of a Mac version of this program. One less reason to run Windows at all on this computer.

By: Bonnie Foster

Bonnie Foster — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:59:00 +0000

Three of my PC’s crashed…lost years of data which could not retrieved…would be happy to start again with a Mac version…..would be great not to have to use my husband’s PC….now…can I transfer all that stuff that I have? Easily?

By: Randy Whitesell

Randy Whitesell — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:55:22 +0000

Hooray! I just converted to a Mac after using DOS/Windows since 1984, but I can not run Family Tree Maker on the Mac. I can’t wait for the new release for Mac.

By: April Dunleavy

April Dunleavy — Sun, 09 May 2010 15:43:28 +0000

I guess timing is everything. My boys got me Family Tree Maker for a Mother’s Day present and I’ve been struggling with it on my Mac. I find the PC interface difficult to maneuver in comparison to the website. I can’t “see” information. I hope the Mac version is better.

By: Diane Taylor

Diane Taylor — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:47:37 +0000

I really don’t want to support this Family Tree Maker software. Why did it take them so long to consider Mac users? I have been using Genealogy software since 1996 and have used FTM on PCs and with PC emulation software on my Mac. I am not happy with this.
Let’s continue to support Reunion, which also came out first with IPhone software. They are the true Mac platform.

By: Bill Israel

Bill Israel — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:47:19 +0000

Two comments:

1) Why would anyone ever want to use anything but Reunion on a Mac? FTM has a huge following because of advertising and promotion and Ancestry.com ownership, but Reunion is much friendlier to use, at least equally capable and just as full-featured, has outstanding technical support when you need it, which is not very often, and it has many years of fine tuning and upgrades to work exceptionally well on Macs.

2) If you really want to use FTM on a Mac, just add Windows OS to your Intel Mac, and you can operate it in Windows mode using Windows software as well or better as on any Windows computer. If you have been using FTM on a Windows computer, you will have an equal or better experience using your exact same software on a Mac in Windows mode.