I have Family Tree Maker 2005 but when Ancestry said they weren't going to support it anymore, I just kept what I had. It works fine. Now I want to upgrade (actually have to purchase a new version). I'm looking at Family Tree Maker 2019 and it's now made by MacKiev.
Will my .ftm files open up in the new program?
Will the Gedcom files I export from my old version open up in the 2019 version?
Can I IMPORT my files to the new version?
Family Tree Maker 2019 has an import/export function in the "File menu" in the task bar. It took hours until I went in to the search bar and found a way to export. Everybody I spoke with told me to upgrade but I was worried I would lose all my data.
I asked a computer expert at Family Tree Maker, and nobody told me to check in the File menu and that I would be able to import files from 2005 version to the 2019 version. My mistake was I did not create a name for my file; otherwise I would have been able to do it in one shot instead of one at a time.
