I'm not sure what it stands for. It is a standard file format that can be read and understood by many different genealogical software programs. It's kind of the "lowest common denominator" for sharing this type of information. dave -----Original Message----- From: BeckyJohn Bannon <j_bbannon@yahoo.com> To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, November 02, 1998 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] Email your GEDCOMs to my address and we'll get started! > >What exactly does GEDCOM stand for? > > > >---"W. David Daugherty" <faddydaddy@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >> >> Email your GEDCOMs to my address and we'll get started! >> >> davie >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: rdea <rdea@seark.net> >> To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Monday, November 02, 1998 10:38 AM >> Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] The Mother of all GEDCOM files! >> >> >> >Okay, Davie. We give this job to you! Do it. >> >I KNOW we are one big family and I would love >> >to see a chart outlining it. >> >Rebecca >> > >> >---------- >> >> From: W. David Daugherty <faddydaddy@worldnet.att.net> >> >> To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com >> >> Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] The Mother of all GEDCOM files! >> >> Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 1:04 PM >> >> >> >> I think it could! Even if we had to print out the individual >"trees", >> >cut, >> >> and paste them together, I think it would be fun and interesting >at the >> >same >> >> time. >> >> >> >> It would help us all to see that we're really just one big family! >> >> >> >> davie >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: KESSAROSE@aol.com <KESSAROSE@aol.com> >> >> To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> >> >> Date: Saturday, October 31, 1998 9:44 PM >> >> Subject: Re: [ARDREW-L] The Mother of all GEDCOM files! >> >> >> >> >> >> >In a message dated 10/31/98 4:37:33 PM Central Standard Time, >> >> >faddydaddy@worldnet.att.net writes: >> >> > >> >> ><< This may have already been mentioned, but has anyone thought of >> >putting >> >> ALL >> >> > our GEDCOM files together to be printed out whereby we can see >the >> >> > intersections between our families? I think it would be VERY >> >interesting! >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >I have no idea how that could be done, but Davie, I think it's >one of >> >the >> >> >neatest ideas I've ever heard! COULD this be done?? >> >> >amy >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >