Family tree Maker 2017

[ptjw7]

An updated version of Family Tree Maker is coming out on 31st March 2017.
If you have a version of it you can update to the new version for £29.95 until 31st March.

Also Ancestry Treesync is being phased out and Familysync is taking its place!

More news about this https://www.mackiev.com/familytreemaker/ftm3/faq.html

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

As of today, 2nd April FTM 2017 has hit a problem :-
https://support.mackiev.com/498640-RELEASE-OF-FTM-2017
So we will have to wait until they iron out the bugs :2fun:
Perhaps they better talk to Gibbo as she's good at ironing:2fun:

Peter

 

[Ellie7]

Yesterday I put my tree back on Ancestry. I just can't work with my Familytree maker. It's how I've always worked. Now wondering if it's worth updating it.

Ellie

 

[ptjw7]

looks like the upgrade has hit the buffers - Ancestry has asked for the upgrade release to be put on hold while they look into the problems that will occur when large numbers of users all resync at once!

Peter

 

[Ellie7]

I got an email a couple of days ago .Think the cheap upgrade offer finishes shortly. Liked the thought that you can alter a faded photo back to a good finish.

Ellie

 

[ptjw7]

Had some news today - I have been selected as part of their beta test - so the upgrade is getting nearer to finalising :'(

We will see:biggrin:

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

Have been using the 2017 beta for the last few days and can say it does everything that I use it for, especially syncing with Ancestry - all going well.
Did have one glitch though - when I was entering some children going from the entry box to the main input the previous child info was still there - all very odd.
Later I thought I would check child entries on the old 2014-1 and that worked as it should - so went back to the new 2-17 beta and that worked as it should, as I had restarted the 2017 beta program I presume the problem was a 'glitch'
Or it could be me(wife says it usually is :2fun::2fun

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

Latest report from Mackiev :-

https://support.mackiev.com/498640-RELEASE-OF-FTM-2017

Looks like they are nearly there!

Although the problem I had with children input is still there, reproducible on this version but is not on old 2014.1 version!

peter

 

[ptjw7]

Latest I heard was that they were nearly ready to release the upgrade!
But oh no It keeps telling me that my online tree has been deleted when it hasn't!
2 days ago I took notice of it and download my tree and relinked it - worked fine for one day then wham 'your online tree has been deleted' so I will leave it for now!

peter

more news :-
https://support.mackiev.com/498640-RELEASE-OF-FTM-2017

 

[ptjw7]

Latest version appears to be working OK with Family Sync working as planned OK
Still got the strange problem when adding multiple children that after adding the *** of the 2nd or higher children it will revert to the previous child - does not happen on the 2014 version.
I even created a test tree and it occurs on 2017 but not 2014.

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

looks like the 2017 is nearly ready to release!
Watch this space

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

FTM 2017 has finally been released - Family Tree Sync now functions as it should.

I still have the problem when entering multiple children from a marriage in that it will revert to the previous child after entering the *** of child - this didn't happen in 2014.1 edition.

peter

 

[ptjw7]

Just released a printed user guide (at a price)

http://www.mackiev.com/store/ftm/offers/gifts/intern.html?edition=uk&ftmcg=yes

Also an update is almost ready - something needed by 5th December?

peter

 

[ptjw7]

Finally the long awaited update to Family Tree Maker 2017 has arrived in 2018.

After what seemed like eternity and forever saying NO to addons and entering name etc I finally got the download link.

So far I do not see any differences inactions etc, only time will tell.

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

Having used the latest offering - all seems to be well

The sync function is working (most times) with a 'traffic light' system to tell when Ancestry is not at home 2fun::'( ) but it appears to work
So upshot is that I will continue to use it, mainly because I dont want to learn another package and it suits my needs.

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

A new version has been released version 23.2.0.1540.
Just loaded it - seems the same as before - only time will tell

peter