This software is Copyright (c) 1982-1989 by Melvin O. Duke
This geneaology program was written in BASIC, during the age of DOS and line printers.
There is no way of exporting the data saved in the program for use in modern geneaology software, and I came across a use-case where the data in the program needed to be exported to a format so it could be processed and converted into a standard GEDCOM file. So I rewrote parts of the code that handles printing, to save the output to a CSV-file instead.
I'm sharing this, so that if there is someone else that has their old geneaology database made with Genealogy ON DISPLAY and need a way to export their data, this little hack may be useful.
All credit and thanks goes to Melvin O. Duke for writing the program.
If no physical machine running DOS is available, the program works just fine under DOSBox with GW-BASIC from Archive.org; it is also included in the zip file for Genealogy ON DISPLAY found on archive.org
To start the program, type the following command:
C:\GOD> gwbasic.exe /s:256 menu.bas
At the moment the following functions have been changed to export to a CSV-file:
9 PRINTPER - Prints Detailed Information about Persons. (Exports to PRINTPER.csv) 10 PRINTMAR - Prints Detailed Information about Marriages. (Exports to PRINTMAR.csv)
This version was aquired from archive.org/details/MicroCom_351_Geneology
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