Here are the steps, and again, these are just for the update owners of older versions will have to purchase an upgrade at the FTM website. So everyone will use the FTM Update Center website to get the update. After that, they’ll turn on the update notification for the MacKiev edition and try to do the same for the Ancestry edition, although MacKiev doesn’t yet know if they’ll be able to do it for the latter. Next they’ll contact everyone else in the Newsletter database. According to Jack Minsky, “The Newsletter went only to those who were signed up for the mailing list to receive updates AND had a registration in our database,” in order to keep their promise about the updates without overloading servers. First, you will not update FTM from within the app itself if you try, it will say you have the most current version. I’d like to explain how to get the update, since at first the process seemed a bit redundant to me, but then I realized why.
If you do find a bug, MacKiev has made it easy to report them on their website. Are there still bugs? I think it goes without saying that no complex piece of software is bug-free, but I’m not aware of any critical bugs that could corrupt a tree or result in loss of data. I’ve been using an updated version and have found it to be stable (rarely crashes) and fast for all but the most resource intensive operations, like loading an extended family chart for a large tree. So should you go ahead and update your FTM? Certainly, with the usual caveat to keep backups of your trees in a safe place (not just an automatic backup, since these are overwritten every time). In fairness to Software MacKiev, I should point out that they offered to provided updated versions to anyone who felt they needed them almost from the beginning and recently opened an update center on their website, making it even easier to get the latest build for anyone who had registered his or her software. I also know that a long 10 months of development and testing went into it, and I think FTM fans will be pleased with the performance improvements compared to Ancestry’s last versions (2014 for Windows and 3 for Mac MacKiev’s versions are 2014.1 and 3.1, respectively). I know a lot of people have been waiting for this update. People who signed up for the FTM newsletter should be receiving an email from Software MacKiev president, Jack Minsky, announcing the release (I received mine last night). Less than a year after Software MacKiev acquired the Family Tree Maker (FTM) software from and promised to improve both the Mac and Windows versions with bug fixes and performance improvements, they have fulfilled their commitment and officially released final versions of the updates. Note: This article was updated on to include additional information from Software MacKiev.
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