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I'll give you a list.

I have some pretty old ones. Probably first gen. You'd have to file off the engravings. :)

There are a couple of later models. But still older.

The ipad has a down rev OS and is obsoleted by Apple and I can no longer run any of the major apps on it. It still plays music but it is like an oversized music player.

I also have a PowerPC based computer. It is a big silver tower. Don't know what model. Still works but I can't get software for it. Unfortunately, my dad used it to research our family history and the Apple software used to create the documents is obsolete. I tried converting it. No luck! That was fun!

My dad bought some old blue and white Imacs in hopes of being able to run the old, obsolete software so that he could convert the files. No luck.

Apple has been fun! On all levels!

OK, you do seem to have some Apple products, but you don't seem to know squat about them. That PowerPC PowerMac was last sold by Apple ten years ago and Apple Supported the Apple OS X versions for it for five years afterwards. . . and you can still run a lot of software on it, just not the newest software. The capabilities of the software and hardware exceeded the capabilities of the PowerPC architecture and IBM, who was in charge of designing it, was not putting any effort into upgrading it. Apple had to jump ship to the Intel platform and they supported the binary mode as long as it was feasible before dropping support for the PowerPC processor lines. You should have sold yours when they were commanding $1500 to $2000 because that was what you could have gotten for it as little as five years ago. . . because videographers were stocking up on them to run their studios. I sold two.

Apple gave the software developers all the free help they needed to convert MacOS software to Mac OS X. . . and it was not difficult to do, but some, apparently like your genealogy software publisher, opted to not do it. That was not on Apple. Those idiots reaped what they sowed. . . and where are their companies today? Probably bankrupt. Apple supported MacOS all the way through OS X.5 with the use of software emulation via Rosetta, but was forced to pull the plug

Your complaint belongs with the software publisher, not Apple. Apple did not create the genealogy software. . . that was a 3rd party who elected to not upgrade.

The ipad has a down rev OS and is obsoleted by Apple and I can no longer run any of the major apps on it. It still plays music but it is like an oversized music player.

Still plays video, too. The Netflix app is still supported on the 1st-gen iPad. And it still has a Web browser. If all else fails, and it's still in good condition, the first-gen iPad still goes for over $100 on eBay.

Apple has never published genealogy software. Any decent package ought to at least support export so some least-common-denominator format like csv, and newer software can import data from the more popular older packages.

My dad bought some old blue and white Imacs in hopes of being able to run the old, obsolete software so that he could convert the files. No luck.

That part makes no sense. He bought computers to go along with a computer that was working? What was the plan there?