Quote from: Robot1982 on January 02, 2019, 01:52:10 PM

If I understand you correctly, you have the 12 words that were randomly generated by electrum + 1 extra word that you have chosen. If this is the case, then you can restore the wallet like this:

[...]

Quote from: Red-Apple on January 02, 2019, 02:17:51 PM

[...]

Electrum has always kept its backward compatibility when it comes to seed words and things like that. they even keep the short lived features like the versioning for private keys!
in other words unless there is some sort of strange bug uniquely encountered by OP, there should not be any problem with importing old seeds in newest versions. the wallet will recognize them.

Well I'll be damned.

@OP keep us posted whether this solved your issue, the solution provided by Robot1982 is far simpler and preferable to what I suggested above.