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Currently what DMT does is to produce a chromosome map, showing double matching segments. So you need to give it two Chromosome Browser Results files - one for the primary person, and one for a match of that person to compare with. No, it does not yet match to ancestors. The ultimate goal is to get it DMT to ...

Enno: Thanks for pointing that out. You are 100% correct. The Family Tree Builder databases are in fact not encrypted. I must have tried opening a FTB 7 database by mistake, and of course, SQLiteSpy can't open a database that's not SQLite. But when I tried it on a FTB 8 database, it opened fine. I'll ...

Oh no! I didn't realize that Tim had discontinued VGedX. But it's much worse. When I went to check his site, I now see that Tim shut down completely last month. Not just VGedX, but his entire GigaTrees site and all his other great utilities including Vivify, Bonkers, CENtar, G-List, Splatter, Stat Range, The ...

That's funny. I notice I have Family Book Creator in GenSoftReviews, and even wrote in its description that it is a plugin for FTM. And I did read Tamura's article, but obviously I didn't register that FTM had a plugin capability. So much of the article was about Ancestry that I must have been thinking ...

Keith: Thinking about this further, I've come to realize that thinking that the encryption of the SQLite database makes your data secure is quite inaccurate. In fact, anyone can read a Family Tree Maker database file by simply copying it to their own machine and opening it up in their own version of Family ...

Thanks for your comments Keith. Then I suppose you'll never use a tool like RootsMagic, because its database is open and someone might get the .rmgc file from your computer and read it. And you'll never make a GEDCOM of all your data and never send that data to anyone (at least not with your living people ...

Sachin, I was actually impressed by Pepipost's responsiveness on Twitter, and it very much seemed to me that your company is actively trying to engage with your customers and potential customers. I do have to admit that the one bad tweet I mention above did get me looking at the other services and I did try ...

Kevin: That's an awesome example of preservation gone very wrong. There are some great comments on that article as well. Speaking of time capsules, 10 yrs ago I submitted my name and it's on the NASA New Horizons spacecraft that flew by Pluto last year with the names of 434,737 others. ...

Uwe: True country-wise. But if I did it by town name, it would be boring again.

Thanks, Mervyn. That helps my understanding. Quaker dates are not supported by GEDCOM, so they'd have to be put as a date phrase in parenthesis. But a smart program would be able to interpret them from the date phrase.