Dear Marion, My husband has a 56k standard modem card and also a 5.25" floppy drive which he would be happy to send you. If you would like them please send your address details off line. Best wishes, Mary 11675 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marion Woolgar" <listmail2008@btinternet.com> To: "SFHG Post Messages" <SFHG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 2:41 PM Subject: [SFHG] Old Family History Programs Needed > The West Sussex Record Office (WSRO) currently have a problem concerning > old > Family History programs which I am trying to help them to resolve and I am > asking for your help. > > Over the past 20 or so years, WSRO have received genealogy data deposited > by > individual researchers, many of whom have passed away in the intervening > years. Of course, this data should have been deposited in GEDCOM format > so > that it can easily be transferred to a modern program, but much of it is > in > an old program's native format and now cannot be retrieved without the > parent program. Some of this data will have been produced on formats that > ran under Win 3.1 or Win95 operating systems and some under MS DOS. Yes, > these really are very old programs, many of which do not exist today. > > With the help of a number of friends who have donated components that > would > otherwise have been binned, I have built a computer tower upon which I > have > loaded MS DOS and Win98 SE. After a lot of frustration and three days > solid > work, I now have a stable system up and running. I had forgotten just how > "umpty" Win98 SE could be! The computer currently has a 3.5" floppy > drive, > a CD-ROM drive and a CD-RW drive, so data can be transferred from/to > different types of storage media. The idea is that this will be used as a > stand alone computer in the Conservation Department at WSRO and which will > be used to convert this old data into a modern format so that it is > accessible to future generations of researchers. > > I am now asking for your help to load some very old family history > programs > onto this computer. I don't want any copyright or licensing problems to > occur, so these must be programs which you have purchased and used in the > past *and* which you no longer have a use for. I have copies of Family > Tree > Maker and Brother's Keeper, but there were a host of other programs > available 10 or more years ago such as Reunion, Clooz, Ancestral Quest, > Genius, Trees, Cumberland Family Tree and many, many more. Could you > search > through your old floppy disk and CD-ROM boxes to see what you might have > to > donate to this project, please? If you find something which may be of > use, > could you please send an E-mail to me off-List to woolgar@one-name.org > giving me the details of the program's name and version number and whether > it is on floppy disk or CD. > > I also have a need for the following items if anyone has them tucked away > somewhere: > > 1 A copy of Lotus's AmiPro program. This was a program that was issued > as a stand-alone and also as part of the first edition of Smart Suite > around > the mid-1990's. I understand that it was particularly popular in America > and Canada; > > 2 A 56k standard modem card, so that I can get online to load a free AV > program; > > 3 A 5.25" floppy drive, just in case some data turns up on that type of > floppy disk. > > I am going to post this message to a couple of other Lists, so please > forgive me if you should receive multiple copies. > > Best wishes > > Marion Woolgar > Bognor Regis, West Sussex > SFHG NO: 3323 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.10/1549 - Release Date: 7/12/2008 > 4:31 PM > > >