Just checked the website under publications. The first line is: CDs are PC compatible. SMI CD not compatible with Macs. SFH CD not fully compatible but usable but perhaps it could be highlighted in some manner. Judy Excell -----Original Message----- From: Cordelia Hull Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 6:46 AM To: Tony Holkham Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SFHG] SFHG Sussex Marriage Index Unfortunately, Tony, from this distance (Australia) one does not see the box before one makes one's purchase - that's why I suggested the Mac incompatibility be made known to prospective purchasers BEFORE they make their purchases . . . . so Mac users don't waste their money :-) Cheers, Cordelia 14526 On 3 December 2012 08:26, Tony Holkham <[email protected]> wrote: > It certainly doesn't run on my Mac, and I wouldn't expect it to as it only > says on the box "minimum requirement Windows 95 or later". > > Fortunately I've hung on to an ancient Windows 95 laptop on which I can > access the SMI but I fervently hope that one day SFHG will produce a > Mac-compatible version. > > Macscrimination, if you ask me... :-)> only joking before you all jump > in... > > Tony 9967 > www.tonyholkham.org > > On 2 December 2012 19:40, Cordelia Hull <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks, Joe >> >> It should also be noted that the CD doesn't seem to work on a Mac >> computer. I don't THINK it is just my lack of computer skills >> (although I am ready to stand corrected on that one any time). >> >> My SMI CD lies a-mouldering pristine in its pack because I cannot use >> it on my computer. >> >> Cordelia >> 14526 >> >> On 2 December 2012 23:25, Joe Bysh <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I sense some misunderstanding on this List about the Sussex Marriage >> > Index >> > which SFHG issued on CD in 2004 comprising details of over 300,000 >> > marriages >> > by Banns or Licence and includes Catholic, Nonconformist and Quaker >> > marriages. As well as marriages in Sussex it includes Sussex spouses >> > who >> > married in Surrey, London and Fleet. >> > The few addenda were put on the SFHG website and are included on later >> > copies of the CD. But as the completed index of every extant record is >> > on >> > CD, SFHG have no plans to put the Index on the members' Data Archive. >> > >> > When the Index was conceived nearly 50 years ago it was intended as a >> > finding device for EVERY known marriage prior to General Registration >> > which >> > began on 1st July 1837. >> > If you have found just one Sussex ancestor who married before 1837, the >> > Index can potentially find thousands more of your ancestors in the >> > preceding >> > 12 generations in the 300 years back to 1538 when King Henry VIII set >> > up >> > Parish Registers. >> > >> > A Sussex Family Historian without the Sussex Marriage Index CD is like >> > a >> > writer without a dictionary ! >> > >> > Joe Bysh, Publications Officer, SFHG #5525 >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> >> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:26:44 -0000 >> >> From: Judy Excell <[email protected]> >> >> Think I should point out that SMI is up to 1837, erratically a little >> >> further. >> >> Judy Excell >> > >> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:26 PM >> >> The SMI only covers as far as 1850, Roger. .... >> >> Phil Vaughan >> >> >> >> Roger Nash >> >> Sent: November-27-12 1:59 PM >> >> Subject: [SFHG] Denyer marriage >> >> Please can someone with access to Sussex Marriage Index check out a >> >> marriage in about 1870 +- 5 years for James Denyer of Kirdford to >> >> Martha. >> >> They have no children in 1871 census in Plaistow Kirdford, so I >> >> believe >> >> them >> >> to be newly married. A possible marriage is to Martha Meredith >> >> Nightingale >> >> (born Warnham) in 1871 Petworth District. My normal method of finding >> >> them >> >> on the same page in the indexes on Ancestry has defeated me! >> > >> >> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:04:58 -0500 >> >> From: sandra moffatt <[email protected]> >> >> Does anyone with access to the Sussex marriage index do a look up for >> >> me? >> >> I'm trying to see if a James Hobden appeared on many marriage records >> >> in >> >> Bolney as a witness. (1800-1830) Thank you,Sandra >> >> 22/11/1820 >> >> ?Groom??????????HOBDEN Thomas >> >> Bride???????? ????STARLEY Martha >> >> Witness???? HOBDEN James >> >> Witness???? 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