IGI255 or similar

Greetings,

Back in the "old" days when one downloaded stuff
at FHCs onto a floppy disk from the IGI CDs, you brought
it home and put it through a little DOS program called
IGI255 - great little beastie.

Nowadays you download stuff online from the IGI onto
your computer as *.GED, the problem is finding
something to take that file and turn it into something
meaningful, hopefully trying to creat some sort of
possible family relationships from the data.

It seems that IGI2555 cannot handle these
downloaded *.GEDs properly as while it apparently
goes through the motions, when you get to the
part where you can look at the output, nothing
there mate.

I have checked the *.DBF files with a data
base proggie that can accept DBase output
and while it creates the named fields brilliantly
there are no data !!!!

Maybe given the age of IGI255 it does not
know about the latest GED version.

Anyone got any ideas about this, or any
other program capable of the sort of
thing that IGI255 was designed to do.

singhals...

Well, it's a work-around, based on the age of IGI255 -- pull that .ged
into your genealogy program, then export it out to PAF 2.0.

If you use PAF 5.x, PAF 2.x is a target in the drop-down. I _think_
it's GED (anything lower than 5.0) in other programs.

T.M. Sommers...

reports that handle IGI GEDCOMs:

igi-filter
Version 1 of 1993-02-15; by Jim Eggert eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu);
output format GedCom. Write GedCom of families/events
containing given TAG/VALUE

igi-import
Version 1.0; by baud@research.att.com; output format GedCom.
Convert igi gedcom to lifelines-standard gedcom

igi-merge
Version 4.0; by Eggert; output format GEDCOM. This program
helps you merge IGI data. IGI data consists of "families" which
are actually events. A real family may be documented by several
events in the IGI database, and thus be represented by several
"families". This program will help you to locate and merge
those "families" back into real families again.

igi-search
Version 1.1; by Vincent Broman; output format Text. prints out
a list of people to look up in the IGI, those who are closely
enough related, who fall in a time range, and whose temple work
is not done.

Looks like Mike StClair has stopped
maintaining his list like he used too.

Tom

Cheers,

Tom [Tom Perrett]
Proud to be member of Melbournee DPS, first