Blast from the past. Remember these people? In keeping with modern trends from enhanced searching here is a response to a thread from November 1994. It holds the first mentions of my program LifeLines in this group. 18 years later LifeLines is still free and a popular choice for UNIX (including Linux and Mac OS X) systems. There weren't many free systems back then. What are the free ones today? Gramps is surely king. Are there others that folks have found that are easy to use and able to record all they information they wish? Tom Wetmore On Friday, November 11, 1994 2:14:43 PM UTC-5, Scott McGee wrote: > In article <NEWTNews.14770.784603562> writes: > > > >So in plain English, there is no shareware on an FTP server > >anywhere for people to use for geneology. > > > >Disappointing...but that is life...and fair to those who > >write software and want to be remunerated for it... > > > HUH? First off, I use LifeLines on a UNIX system and I got the first version > from an FTP site. Later, when then new version was anounced, I got it > directly from the author (FOR FREE) and it is now avilible by ftp too. > > I would be HIGHLY suprised if some PC and MAC software wasn't also freely > availible! > > Oh, before I go, let me add a public thanks to Tom Wetmore for first writing > LifeLines (The best genealogy program there is!) and then for making it > freely availible. Thanks Tom! > > Scott