Set default app for generic files

I don't know when this started happening, but some OSX update broke my opening generic files. Now when I doubleclick the generic file icon it opens in Microsoft Word, which is unacceptable. So I deleted Word and now the files open in a genealogy application, which has to throw a number of error dialogs before it can be closed.
How do generic files know to open in the genealogy app? Is this something in Launch Services I can change to set them to open in a decent UNIX editor? This bugs me, because it all worked well until a few months ago.
If I say:
defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices 'LSHandlers'
the resulting text contains:
LSHandlerContentTag = ged;
LSHandlerContentTagClass = "public.filename-extension";
LSHandlerIgnoreCreator = 1;
LSHandlerRoleAll = "uk.ac.qmw.dcs.seegedcomx";
seegedcomx is the app that now opens all generic files. Is there a way to set this to a proper application?

More than likely it's a LaunchServices problem and you should reset its database. See http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html for details.

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