If anyone is missing files, I’m happy to send them. Until then, I’m stuck with going around the houses trying to keep UFT running and backed up. If I find another program with a similar display, I’ll do a switch-over. I’ve tweaked some of the event settings and various bits and pieces. With UFT, I have a massive project that’s been ongoing for 14 years.
I still have to use the disc to install the program, though. I took to backing up the entire folder when I noticed I lost the background “bookshelf” when restoring projects from a backup. The only way to see siblings, kids and parents is to go into the tree view, which means you can’t see the events on the person. It is more powerful if you’re going through multiple generations but less user-friendly, and you lose the all-directions name display. I tried The Master Genealogist and it does at least import most of your data from UFT. The person display shows the parents, spouse, siblings AND children, so it’s quick and easy to move around the tree.
I particularly like the display because it shows events AND the family tree in all directions from one person. UFT was the first family tree program I used. Windows 8 will run it on Hyper-V if you use an XP virtual hard drive but makes backing up difficult. What I’m trying to say is Windows 7 XP Mode will run UFT just fine. However, unlike XP Mode, Hyper-V seems an antisocial hermit and backing up now involves mounting and “going offline” with virtual hard drives and it takes ages to back up. After about 2 or 3 days, me and “tech support” (a family member) managed to get Hyper-V virtual machine with XP installed and then it was easy to install UFT.
This year, I was bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1 installed. (I back up using TrueCrypt, so as XP Mode sees a mounted TrueCrypt container as a flash drive plugged into XP Mode, backing up was quick and easy.) I went with XP Mode, installed UFT on it, and it worked fine. Last year, I upgraded to Windows 7 and couldn’t get UFT to run.
Upgraded to the latest and added the patch to run in Windows XP. Ultimate Family Tree (UFT) Review by Ruth,īought this to run on Windows 98 originally (I think I had the 2.1 trial version!) You can then do a cut and paste of the contents into whatever other program you are using.īiggest Pro: Unlimited text fields. Thus, you would need to open the gedcom file in a program that does not automatically add formatting code when a file it has opened is saved. That is because Ultimate Family Tree utilized an unique protocol that so far as I am aware (I am NOT a programmer, merely one of the original beta-testers of the software) that allowed users to create custom gedcom tags, the problem being that those tags would be readable only in programs using the protocol, and so far as I am aware, no other developer adopted it. I believe you will find that when you generate a gedcom in Ultimate Family Tree, you will find that the data which will not load into another program is actually there. Ultimate Family Tree (UFT) Review by Anquestory,