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From: "William & Deirdre Madden" <>
Subject: Fw: re Gedcom
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:04:07 -0700

Dear Friends,
I am very grateful to those of you who responded so quickly to my
query re Gedcom. I have asked a couple people who wanted to know what
program I use (which happens to be FTW 7.0,) to reply to the List so
others could take advantage of their experience/expertice. I would
like to include this response from "PITTYPAT" whose good answers and
advice we have seen many times before.

Deirdre

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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: gedcom


> I have Family Origins. I suppose they are all about the same. I also
have
> Family Tree Maker. You go up to FILE and look for GEDCOM. You click
on
> whether you want to import or export. You create a gedcom file of
the persons
> you want to include - for instance all the descendants of daddy.
They ought
> to help you a bit. I can't remember, tho I have done it many times.
It's not
> a problem You will have to mark the ones you want. After you get it
created
> you have to find it. My program wants to put this file in the "My
Documents"
> folder. And that is ok, but you could also click on another
folder/directory
> on your hard drive. You could put it in your genealogy program's
directory.
> Somewhere where you know where to find it. Then you might want to
send it to
> someone. You would attach it to your email letter. AOL is so easy
and I have
> used it so long I can't remember how the other few programs I had
worked. The
> person you send it to has to have a genealogy program also. They
shouls all
> read gedoms. My Family Origins and I think FTM lets you make these
books and
> save them as an ascii/text file. These are editable in your word
processor.
> These can be attached also, and read my about anyone, whether they
have a
> genenalogy program or not. These are handy sometimes to send also.

> Pat McAlister
>

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