Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

These are the websites from last nights meeting - and what you may want to use the software for:-


http://www.libreoffice.org/ Free office software
http://gramps-project.org/ Free genealogy software
http://waterfoxproject.org/ 64 bit Firefox (faster on 64 bit machines)
http://www.getpaint.net/ Easier than Photoshop - suit most peoples needs
http://gimpshop.com/ Photoshop clone - powerful but takes time to learn
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ Email client (like Outlook)

Thanks Lee, freebies always gratefully accepted.

Hope you don't mind my adding this one to the Office programs..
http://www.openoffice.org
It is fully compatible with Word and is an entire suite of word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. And it is FREE.

dickiesam wrote:Hope you don't mind my adding this one to the Office programs..
http://www.openoffice.org
It is fully compatible with Word and is an entire suite of word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. And it is FREE.

Open Office, Oxygen Office, and Libre Office all share the same 'roots' - Libre Office was created when all the programmers from the original Open Office Team broke away to create Libre Office.

Thanks Lee! One learns something every day, if you are willing to learn. I hadn't come across Libre-Office before.

Just a thought - do we know which OS these programmes are compatible with? I know OpenOffice has been around for a long time, good as it is, has it been updated to run with Windows 7?

MaryA wrote:Just a thought - do we know which OS these programmes are compatible with? I know OpenOffice has been around for a long time, good as it is, has it been updated to run with Windows 7?

As far as I know, most will work on ALL windows, Linux, and MAC - though obviously you will know more when you go to download.

Dickiesam - they day we stop learning is the day we die!

If we continue a discussion about software I'll separate it from the important bit at the top afterwards.

At a meeting recently the LDS software was mentioned - as in the 1881 census on disk and the British Isles Vital Records Index (BIVRI) which has proved so useful in the past. The programme to run these disks no longer works on Windows 7, some of us are lucky enough to have kept hold of an old computer running XP so at least they are still usable, but has anybody heard of any work-around for Windows 7 OS? I know the LDS are not planning to upgrade the software.

MaryA wrote:If we continue a discussion about software I'll separate it from the important bit at the top afterwards.

At a meeting recently the LDS software was mentioned - as in the 1881 census on disk and the British Isles Vital Records Index (BIVRI) which has proved so useful in the past. The programme to run these disks no longer works on Windows 7, some of us are lucky enough to have kept hold of an old computer running XP so at least they are still usable, but has anybody heard of any work-around for Windows 7 OS? I know the LDS are not planning to upgrade the software.

What's LDS?

Lee Layland wrote:
What's LDS?

Short for Church of Latter Day Saints, aka the Mormon Church of Salt Lake City,Utah, reputed to hold the largest collection of genealogical records in the world.

Latter Day Saints often known as the Mormon church.

Sorry, they are often so well known I didn't think. They are also publishers of the BIVRI and the searchable 1881 discs.