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From: Otto Jørgensen <>
Subject: Re: [BK] Conversion
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:58:59 +0200


Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:30:39 +0200, Otto Jørgensen <>
wrote:

>Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:24:26 +1300, "D.W.Rademaker"
><> wrote:
>
>>Hi Otto.
>>Thanks for your response.
>>The information came as an attachment in plain text file.
>>I don't know how the person who send it to me got hold of it.
>>
>>Because of its size I was thinking that there may be a program or method to
>>convert to a GEDCOM file.
>>
>one of the problem to make such a converting program is to have to suit
>whatever layout of a tree or a report and even if a program have made
>the report, the user might have open the result and made some change in
>the layout ;=)
>There might be some that have made such program, but as far as I can
>remember (My age?=) ) there is no program, but I'm sure that everybody
>would like to know if there is such program around.

I did look to some old messages and did find this message

Fri, 16 Jan 1998 18:47:46 -0500, in soc.genealogy.computing, David
Cooper <> wrote:

>> Is anyone aware of any shareware programs that can be used to convert a
>> table of text information to the GEDCOM file format?
>>
>
>Bob,
>
>I have a program which will do exactly that. It is a 100 percent
>freeware, it is a little crude at this time (as in little documentation);
>but, it is fairly easy to use. If you are interested, let me know and I
>will email it with examples to you.
>
>...david
>
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>o?o
>Researching: ALLEN,BERZONER,COHEN,COOPER,FLEISHMAN,POSNER
>(POIZNER),PRITIKIN
>http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/o/David--Cooper/

If this is something that can help you I don't know and at least the
message is some year old :=?

--
Otto Jorgensen - Norway
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