HeiressofBickworth
HeiressofBickworth's JournalWhat comes to mind are the
bantustans of South Africa during apartheid. Bantustans were the areas set aside for Black people, many of whom worked in a large, white, wealthy city. In that case, the division was along color lines and was involuntary. In gentrified cities like San Francisco, the lines are economic and at times, also involuntary when stagnant wages, increasing rents and sky-high real estate prices force workers into the suburbs. It seems to be devolving into an economic apartheid.
I'm a real dinosaur
I'm still using the Family Tree Maker 2000 version of Broderbundt 7.5 (before being bought by Ancestry).
So, for data management, reports, etc., my old, unsupported version continues to work just fine. A potential problem is I can't update my operating system because this old version won't run on anything newer than Windows 98. But I continue to plod along, seemingly without problems. I back up on an external thingie (lack of technical knowledge showing here)
After reading the comments on their blog, the ones who will be hard-hit will be the ones who download entire trees into their desktop FTM, merge Ancestry information or who are in the habit of up-loading their findings to Ancestry. It appears the connection between Ancestry and a person's desktop FTM that will be lost and they will no longer make corrections or adjustments to the database.
They probably will offer something that will only be on their website (and not on your desktop) which will force users to enter ALL of their information to Ancestry's website, verified or not. If I ever need to change databases, I'll look around for something that isn't connected to Ancestry.
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