Who remembers the early days of Ancestry?

[LizzieL]

Was it FindMyPast (then 1837online) or Ancestry that had a strange format called dejvu (or something like that) for census or bmd files? You had to download a special viewer. I have a load of those files and nothing to look at them with. It was 4 computers ago, so viewer lost, but files still saved.

Try IrfanView (freeware for non-comercial use).  There is an image type expansion plugin which includes the DjVu format.

Thanks, I already have Irfan view, but only used it to convert webp to jpg. Hadn't noticed it would do DjVu as well

[jonwarrn]

Gosh, even the links from December 2003 still work!
Doubt you could actually search for anything though.

"Download DjVu Viewer Plug-in   
 
The DjVu viewer plug-in for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer is the primary means of viewing DjVu documents. The plug-in enables users to view and navigate a DjVu document, and zoom and pan in real time.

Click the following link to download the DjVu viewer plug-in, select the appropriate operating system, and follow the guide below."

[LizzieL]

Gosh, even the links from December 2003 still work!
Doubt you could actually search for anything though.

"Download DjVu Viewer Plug-in   
 
The DjVu viewer plug-in for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer is the primary means of viewing DjVu documents. The plug-in enables users to view and navigate a DjVu document, and zoom and pan in real time.

Click the following link to download the DjVu viewer plug-in, select the appropriate operating system, and follow the guide below."

Good old Netscape Navigator! and Windows 3.1 I always wondered what happened to Windows 1 and 2 and Windows 3.0.

[coombs]

I first took out a sub for Ancestry in January 2006, and have renewed it every year since. I did lurk on Ancestry before that.