Advice needed gedcom files? (General)

by jimashton , Sunday, October 14, 2007, 03:01 (6252 days ago) @ fredb

Hi Fred

My understanding is that GEDCOM was developed by LDS to enable family history researchers to forward their data to them. You can confirm this in an item you might find it useful to read in Wikipedia. Just type Gedcom in Google.

I think you will find that all forms of Family Tree software includes the GEDCOM facility.

I use Generations software as my main form of software, but I like the Descendancy Reports available in Family Tree Maker as an easy to use format for sharing details. Obviously I do not populate both forms of Family Tree software as this would be very time consuming and with a chance of making a mistake, so I put everything into Generations software and use the GEDCOM facility to export that family tree to "My documents", then update Family Tree Maker from that file. I also have PAF, because a family tree contact uses that format and can send data to me using PAF. I have just looked at PAF 5.2 and the facility to export as GEDCOM is shown under the "File" heading then "Export" - where GEDCOM is an option.