I agree with everything you said, Rick, but you dug a little deeper than I had in mind for someone like Karen who is not 40 years away from her relative's running TMG system. Karen alluded to one issue that I think is critical: Can she "inherit" her relative's TMG license? Or, is she obligated to find a version 9 license of her own? And secondly, if Karen is entitled to use the license left by her relative, Is there still a way she can recover the original registration information and/or transfer it to her own name? And thirdly, if our successors must get a license of their own, does anyone know how many licenses are left? John N. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Van Dusen [mailto:newnethboy@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 8:31 PM To: tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TMG] Safeguarding our data (was: Clueless questions about TMG) We've wrangled with this topic before (and it gets somewhat OT pretty quickly); let me summarize (and probably heavily editorialize): <snipped for brevity...>