Issue 6.16
In December 2015, Ancestry.com announced they were discontinuing Family Tree Maker. They received tons of feedback and have continued to actively explore ways to develop and support Family Tree Maker to ensure users have choices to preserve their work in ways that matter to them. On February 2, 2016, Ancestry announced two options for desktop software that will work with Ancestry.
Software MacKiev, a software company with whom Ancestry.com has had a long-standing relationship is acquiring the Family Tree Maker software line as publisher for both Mac and Windows versions. Software MacKiev has been the developer of Family Tree Maker for Mac for more than six years and is thrilled at the opportunity to publish future versions of Family Tree Maker for Mac and Windows.
This new agreement means users will receive software updates and new versions from Software MacKiev, and have the ability to purchase new versions of Family Tree Maker from Software MacKiev as they are released. Users will have continued access to Ancestry Hints, Ancestry searches, and be able to save your tree on Ancestry with Family Tree Maker moving forward.
Ancestry.com has also made an agreement with RootsMagic, a leading genealogy desktop software program publisher, to connect Ancestry with the RootsMagic software by the end of 2016. With this new relationship, RootsMagic can serve as your desktop family tree software, while having access to Ancestry hints, Ancestry searches, and the ability to save your tree on Ancestry.
It is nice that they heard the concerns of so many users and started working to provide the solutions requested. The new agreements will make it possible to preserve your work on Ancestry and Family Tree Maker and enable future features and benefits to help you discover your family history. Ancestry, in cooperation with Software MacKiev and RootsMagic, will continue to support users as they discover their family history. No date was given for the changes, but Family Tree Maker will still work as discontinuing support only stops the updates and does not make the software stop working.
For more information, contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@msn.com https://ssj.myitworks.com/
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