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If you 'export a gedcom' particularly if you have made a number of additions, it can always be 'imported' onto another site. It is exported into an email to you in an unreadable state, ready to import. You may lose some attachments, but the tree will remain safely.

Tina, I think you have just spooked a lot of us.

It is probably a good idea anyway to copy your tree so that you have a spare version in case anything goes wrong.

Names

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4 years......a very slow departure....

Tina, this thread is four years old.
Also GR does not check the boards. You need to email them if you are concerned that they are closing imminently.

Sirs, I have just renewed my membership for Genes Reunited, mainly so that I could access my tree . I have since seen that this company is either closing or has closed. Can you please tell me what is happening, and will my details be safe if it does close, and would it be possible in that case to transfer this data, as there is quite a lot of it, elsewhere.(Say, by Gedcom) I have been a member for many years but let it lapse previously due to the fact I am a senior citizen and felt, at the time I couldn't afford the membership fees.

Our FTM 2005 was originally on Windows XP, then transferred to W8.1 and then to W10, all without problems.

If you are upgrading to W10 from W8, then the file just transfers with all the others - you don't even need the original CD.

The title of this thread is very misleading

Not a word has been said officially about the site closing .......... although many of us think it is being wound down.

But people are now getting very worried when they read the title

All the news items today have been about Friends Reunited.

The news about FR ending was apparently put up on FR back in December by Steve Pankhurst

http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/friendsreunited-sunset/People/6e6ee4da-4c42-4e43-81d0-a57d0117ff22



The Group is called FriendsReunited Sunset, and this comment he made in response to members is very interesting

.......... and alarmingly like GR

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I have seen people ask about saving the boards. However, this is close to impossible. The code behind the FR site has been written, changed and hacked about for over 15 years by many different people and companies. I wrote the original back in 2000, and some of that even still exist. As you can imagine it's a bit of a mess by now (understatement!) and needs a huge amount of effort to make any significant changes to it. I no longer personally have the skill set to do so, and 2 years ago the whole development team left leaving just one developer and myself (and Will in support) to take over. The developer has since left leaving no tech support. I could find someone - and that is hard in itself as the technology is old and no-one wants to work on it. But it would cost a lot.

The site already costs many thousands a month to support and maintain with little advertising income. Therefore you can see the reason for the closure is mainly down to it not being financially or technically viable to continue it.
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Looks like I am behind the times then lol - but someone on one of the Facebook genealogy sites posted the link to an email they had received today about the merger :-S

FMP acquired origins.net and Mocavo back in June 2014 :-)

Mocavo is a purely US site

Read somewhere today FMP and Mocavo are joining together. I have never heard of Mocavo :-S

I'm like Andysmum. I use FTM 2005 and it does all I want it to do. I only have a very small number of people on my family tree on Genes - in fact I haven't updated it in about 10 years.

I don't think it will be long before Genes goes the same way as FriendsReunited.

I don't know whether or not FTM is supported by Windows 10 but you can certainly use it with Windows 10. It's what we are on.

Kath. x

you can also put your tree on the free Mormon website - www.familysearch.org

Am I right in thinking though that FTM is not supported by windows 10?

Squirrel, unless you use the sync with Ancestry, you don't need to do anything.

FTM will still work on your computer the same as it does now - it's a stand-alone programme. There just won't be any new versions.

I am not the only person on here who still uses an old version of FTM (in my case 2005) and find it quite adequate for my needs. :-) :-)

Haven't had my tree here for a while. Really should put a gedcom version on here. My main tree is on family tree maker for mac- I don't know what I'm going to do when they stop supporting it in a year's time.

I have mine on my own computer, and a small version on ancestry ........... but that one is made Private so that it cannot be seen by all and sundry and information "stolen" willy nilly.

Names show up if searched for, but interested people have to contact me to see any more.

LindaAngela It's just a guess but as FMP have recently mentioned on their FB page that they are working on making 'sharing trees' a feature on their site, that people with GR trees ( should GR close as an independent site) would be able to move their tree to FMP quite easily?

I moved my tree from here to Tribal pages, it's simple, it's free unless you want to add features, and I like the layout.

If GR were to close, to where could I move my tree? Please.