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  • Calling all FTM experts!

    There must be lots of you out there! I do not use FTM but have a friend I saw yesterday who does. She wants to send me her tree but seems completely clueless as to how to do a GEDCOM. I suggested she looked for export options but she just looked blankly at me!

    Could some kind person spell out in easy steps how she can:-
    a) separate out the bit of her tree she wants me to have, and
    b) how to make a GEDCOM file and send it by email to me.

    I'm afraid I didn't ask which version she has but suspect its not the latest!

    Thanks so much!
    Anne
    (I have Family Historian btw)
    Last edited by Anne in Carlisle; 13-07-08, 14:53.

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    Hi Anne,

    I am not taking the easy way out, but the FTM online instructions are fairly straightforward, so am giving you a link to those.

    How to export a gedcom
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    The only problem with this is that it will export the whole file.
    If she only needs to send you part of a file then when she gets to the bit that says
    From the File menu, choose Export File, then select Entire File.
    she needs to select the part of the file she wishes to send.

    The first section of these instructions shows what needs to be done
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    so when she gets to From the File menu, choose Export File, then select Entire File
    she needs to select Selected Individuals rather than Entire File and then follow the second set of instructions on how it should be done.

    It is fairly straightforward - if she has the info printed out in front of her it will probably be easier!
    Elaine







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    • #3
      Thanks Elaine - I'll get on to that. I knew what she should be looking for but not exactly how!

      Anne

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      • #4
        Just bookmarking.
        Liz

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