On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:26:08 -0500, kraut / larry stark <kraut3852@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:30:32 -0500, kraut / larry stark ><kraut3852@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>Suggestions for a good freeware genealogy program that is not too >>complicated. > >I should have mentioned that I am using Windows XP and Family Tree >Maker which I started using when the DOS version was out which I would >still use if I could. I wish I would have kept my old DOS box!! I >would use it with the old DOS program!! I do not need all this >graphics crap and fancy backgrounds and stuff and being able to save >pics with it. I want something that keeps track of names, dates, >relatiionships, charts, ETC in a genealogy porgram (before someone >tells me I can use Excel or something). For me Family Tree Maker has >way more junk then I will ever use plus the screen is so busy if you >know what I mean. It takes me forever to find where I want to go in >it!!! Well, you have had several suggestions. >Usually someone brings up these DOS things that can be used in windows >to run DOS programs but before they do let me say I am not really into >computers and do not know how to do all that stuff. If you could do it with a DOS computer you can do it with a Windows one, but beware of the 64-bit versions, and stick to the 32-bit versions. One of the first things to do is to find where they have hidden the command prompt, and put it on your Windows "Desktop", where you can find it again. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk