I'm impressed, Fred - both at the size and scope of your collection and your work in cataloguing.

Wesley. I've no dea what Freebird or Whipping Post are. If they are database packages, at the moment I'm using an obsolete version of Lotus, which really needs to be migrated to Microsoft, to make sure people will be able to open it.

If that's Lotus Approach, almost any software should be able to use the data file - it will be in .dbf format. I needed to migrate a complex multi-table database from Approach to something that was still available and others could use. I have no knowledge of Microsoft applications, but was advised that migration to Access was a lot of work. Having tried many alternatives, I settled on FilemakerPro and the migration was fairly straightforward. The basic design is very similar to Approach, and importing the data was flawless.

Good luck

Phil