Lee,
You started this thread by saying: "I am considering ceasing the use of FTM as desktop software and using only the online tools at Ancestry.com."
Yet in reality it seems that you already had decided that neither tool had value. You also come to the conclusion that GEDCOM had no value and that something else needs to be done early into the thread.
While I can't 100% agree or disagree with your conclusions I'm wondering why you stared the thread.
You have also said: "I don't know if it is GEDCOM or a.com or FTM, and really don't care."
Again, If you don't care then why start the thread? But what really becomes a head scratcher for me is that "You should care!" Because if you continue to not care then the flaws that every genealogy application in existance has, will never get fixed, a data transfer protocall like GEDCOM will never get upgraded to fix the flaws that it has. Changes to GEDCOM that could and probably will include XML, retransmitions schems and timers, and more modern IP like protocols. These protocols however have no effect on the actual data that is transmitted between handshakes, it effects just the reliability of the handshake.
I on the other hand do have things to do, so I will wish you good forture in your hobby, I hope you find what you need. I will now take leave of this thread.
You started this thread by saying: "I am considering ceasing the use of FTM as desktop software and using only the online tools at Ancestry.com."
Yet in reality it seems that you already had decided that neither tool had value. You also come to the conclusion that GEDCOM had no value and that something else needs to be done early into the thread.
While I can't 100% agree or disagree with your conclusions I'm wondering why you stared the thread.
You have also said: "I don't know if it is GEDCOM or a.com or FTM, and really don't care."
Again, If you don't care then why start the thread? But what really becomes a head scratcher for me is that "You should care!" Because if you continue to not care then the flaws that every genealogy application in existance has, will never get fixed, a data transfer protocall like GEDCOM will never get upgraded to fix the flaws that it has. Changes to GEDCOM that could and probably will include XML, retransmitions schems and timers, and more modern IP like protocols. These protocols however have no effect on the actual data that is transmitted between handshakes, it effects just the reliability of the handshake.
I on the other hand do have things to do, so I will wish you good forture in your hobby, I hope you find what you need. I will now take leave of this thread.