Finally found a useable (if not perfect) software to track a family tree: The Gramps Project. It does import my old gedcom files flawlessly, it seems. It took me a few minutes to figure it out, but in the end I think it’s pretty simple to use – of course you need to keep in mind that I am a geek and not an average computer user.
The World According to Nils
Just at the moment I´m working at a large family tree of the
Jeppe family
There is one person missing
Friedrich Wilhelm Jeppe, born May, 25, 1815 in Grebenstein
at that time Kurfürstentum Hessen-Kassel, he is mentioned as
emigrated to South Africa, without any knowledge about him and his
further fate
The Jeppe from Lower Saxony had a branch here in Northern Hessen
starting with Chritoph Jeppe, b. 1695, d. 1768
a farm manager in Burguffeln, an baronial, then state estate.
Best wishes
Gustaf Eichbaum
chairman, Northern Hessen genealogical society, GFKW