FAMILY TREE MAKER to be discontinued!

[Kevin Burrell]

Well I have certainly uploaded images to Ancestry that were (paid for and) downloaded from FindMyPast - and indeed have done the same from Ancestry to FindMyPast (I go where the sub is cheapest at the time:0)) - never thought about permissions. Though I can quite happily cite FindMyPast as the source of the data into FTM which then syncs with Ancestry - think I will adopt the 3 wise monkey approach and carry on as if I had not read any of this post.

[bugbear]

Well I have certainly uploaded images to Ancestry that were (paid for and) downloaded from FindMyPast - and indeed have done the same from Ancestry to FindMyPast (I go where the sub is cheapest at the time:0)) - never thought about permissions. Though I can quite happily cite FindMyPast as the source of the data into FTM which then syncs with Ancestry - think I will adopt the 3 wise monkey approach and carry on as if I had not read any of this post.

And that, m'lud is the case for the defense 

 BugBear

[loo]

I am not sure if this has been posted as I didn't have time to read all 12 pages of this thread, but it's pretty clear that the reason for this decision is that it's not profitable any more.  Therefore it will only be revived or extended if a profitable way is found.
http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/12/08/ancestry-to-retire-family-tree-maker-software/

Read the wikipedia article about ancestry.com for some remarkable facts about its history and business if you are interested.  This is a very big business.

[Liz in France]

Thanks to everyone for highlighting problems and solutions, most of which have gone over my head.  I use Version 8 of FTM and enter everything manually which I like doing as I do actually retain some of the information having typed it out.  I was a bit alarmed when I first heard about the withdrawing of support and researchers having to look for other packages to carry on but thought that with a stand alone tree offline it would not affect me as I could not see what support I was getting anyway.

I have just spent the past year transferring and checking entries from my tree on Genes Reunited to FTM (got fed up with people insisting my relatives were theirs and can they look at my tree) so am very relieved to be able to carry on regardless.  I do have a World subscriptions to Ancestry but have great difficulty in accessing it at times due to very poor internet, although other sites are not such a problem.

I hope that everyone who changes packages get what they want and others like me (if there are any) will be happy plodding along entering data and photos manually.

Happy New Year to you all.

[groom]

This looks good news

http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2016/02/02/good-news-for-users-of-family-tree-maker/


Seems as if things might carry on as they are now under Software MacKiev or RootsMagic

[c-side]

Yes, I've just had the same message in an email.  Hopefully this will put people's minds at rest

[Brian1949]

Good news - it shows that the huge outcry to Decembers announcement has them worried. Maybe they have realised they will lose a lot (and possibly are) of business by not supporting FTM.
It just shows people power sometimes works!

[weste]

yes i've received the message this morning.

[groom]

In hindsight, perhaps it would have been better if they'd sorted out this deal and then announced that MacKiev and RootsMagic were taking over that part of Ancestry, but as far as subscribers were concerned it wouldn't make much difference. By just announcing they were stopping FTM it has caused a people worry and probably lost them a lot of customers. Or have they been forced into this action by the response to the initial announcement?