Hello
I have cut and pasted an email I just received from familytreemaker/Tech
Support below for your review. According to Juliet, familytreemaker does
have a size limitation, which, regretfully, I have now reached in the
Rogers/Rodgers Family Database.
If anyone has any information on any other program that I could use that
has a larger or higher maximum limitation that familytreemaker's software,
please, please advise me of it. I'm going shopping for a familytree software
that is of a higher quality than that of familytreemaker's.
You should all be aware of this size limitation, because if you spend the
amount of time I have, to build a database, you can end up with a file that
you can no longer add information or merge out information from it to another
file. So as far as I am concerned, familytreemaker software is useless and
you should be looking at other programs. I will be posting this negative
about familytreemaker's software on various email lists at rootsweb of other
surnames contained in the database.
It is a shame that familytreemaker's tech rep's did not have the slightest
concern about the size limitation problem and how much of a problem is has
caused. I have looked on the box I have from familytreemaker, and see no
mention of a size limitation, or notice of the problems it can cause your
file. They want our data to be submitted to them, so they can "sell CD's for
a profit", but show no concern at all as to the problems their size
limitation causes our files.
Thomas W. Rogers
http://www.expage.com/ancestorial
Subj: Re: Family Tree Maker/Tech Support/Juliet
Date: 11/3/00 3:17:01 PM Central Standard Time
From: BannerBlue_TS(a)genealogy.com (BannerBlue TS)
To: Travelback4u(a)aol.com
Hi Thomas,
You are right. Unfortunately I do not have an answer for you. The size
limitation should be on the software box. Or you can go yo our website at
http://www.familytreemaker.com/support/general/09954.html
Sincerely,
Juliet,
Genealogy.com Technical Support
http://www.genealogy.com/support