Ged For Free
Q: I have an old genealogy database which was created in .dbf format which has
a very simplistic DOS front-end and an nightmarish navigation.
I'd like to extract the data from the database and either import it into a
GED-compliant application, or convert it, dump the old .dbf thing and work
on the new version. Is there an application that will help me do this? I
presume I would need to identify the relevant fields as well as how the
relationships are defined (at the moment, father/mother/spouse etc are
referenced to by line numbers).
And it goes without saying that I'm horribly poor, so a free conversion
utility, or a family tree program which has a time-limited free trial would
be marvellous!
A:There may be utility programs out there that will do a database to GED
conversion, (I have one that goes the other way), but they will
require you to organize the data in a certain exact way. If you're
going to do that, it seems to me that a better approach would be to
download a