In a message dated 11/17/1999 3:31:21 AM Central Standard Time, 
gasmann@netzero.net writes:

<< 
                 Familytreemaker did not do that though. I had upgrades
 version 4.0 to version 5.0 and could not read files from earlier
 versions. >>


I started out about 5 years ago with FTM 2.0 (the original DOS program!!)  - 
I'm now using 5.0b and I've never had any trouble with my own files or 
gedcoms??

There are a lot of features about FTM I really like (book maker for one) - 
but I do disagree with collecting family genealogies and information (years 
of hard work for most people) and making a huge profit off of them.  I 
understand there is a cost involved in bringing all that information together 
and making it convieniently available to people world wide - but the cost is 
still highly inflated.  Anyway, what do you do when you've got a thousand 
hours put into a the program you are using - ditch it and spend another 
thousand hours re-entering into another program that may also have it's 
faults/bugs?  Alas - it's not a perfect world.

Jeanette in Texas

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