Help with .gen files

[David H.]

I read some old posts about this file type and spent a couple hours
tracking down false leads.

My father created a family tree in a DOS-based program called Family
Tree Print, by Cherry Tree Software. Apparently, this program had some
connection to Family Ties software.

The program placed the family data into files with these extensions.
The one ending in .gen seems to have most of the data (I can view it
with a text viewer).
..adr
..dat
..gen
..nam
..ref

I found a gen to gedcom utility but it didn't work on these files.

Can anyone help me with this one? I'd hate to lose all of the work
that went into the old program.

Thanks much.
David

[Maloney Empire]

Hi David,

I can't help you with the conversion, but my suggestion is to view with a
text viewer and try to save it as a text document.
At that way you do have the contents of the file which you could enter into
your program.

I also did a google search for Cherry Tree Software and found the following
sites, one of them might be able to help you.

http://www.vicman.net/downloads/dir/Fam ... 23175.html

http://www.thinkall.com/product_tree_ov ... TAodwhRhCg

http://www.download-by.net/company/cher ... tware.html


Good luck,
Di Maloney
Vic Australia
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"David H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| I read some old posts about this file type and spent a couple hours
| tracking down false leads.
|
| My father created a family tree in a DOS-based program called Family
| Tree Print, by Cherry Tree Software. Apparently, this program had some
| connection to Family Ties software.
|
| The program placed the family data into files with these extensions.
| The one ending in .gen seems to have most of the data (I can view it
| with a text viewer).
| .adr
| .dat
| .gen
| .nam
| .ref
|
| I found a gen to gedcom utility but it didn't work on these files.
|
| Can anyone help me with this one? I'd hate to lose all of the work
| that went into the old program.
|
| Thanks much.
| David
|

[David H.]

Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe a newer program can import the text
file so that at least some of the data is saved.

David


Maloney Empire wrote:

Hi David,

I can't help you with the conversion, but my suggestion is to view with a
text viewer and try to save it as a text document.
At that way you do have the contents of the file which you could enter into
your program.

I also did a google search for Cherry Tree Software and found the following
sites, one of them might be able to help you.

http://www.vicman.net/downloads/dir/Fam ... 23175.html

http://www.thinkall.com/product_tree_ov ... TAodwhRhCg

http://www.download-by.net/company/cher ... tware.html


Good luck,
Di Maloney
Vic Australia
Please remove 1 from email address to reply direct.
"David H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
| I read some old posts about this file type and spent a couple hours
| tracking down false leads.
|
| My father created a family tree in a DOS-based program called Family
| Tree Print, by Cherry Tree Software. Apparently, this program had some
| connection to Family Ties software.
|
| The program placed the family data into files with these extensions.
| The one ending in .gen seems to have most of the data (I can view it
| with a text viewer).
| .adr
| .dat
| .gen
| .nam
| .ref
|
| I found a gen to gedcom utility but it didn't work on these files.
|
| Can anyone help me with this one? I'd hate to lose all of the work
| that went into the old program.
|
| Thanks much.
| David
|