OK. Here are my lame excuses to add to those already mentioned. There are several problems in producing a? GEDCOM: 1. My surname list is too big and I will need to retire from my job before I have time to generate a decent GEDCOM. It will go on forever. 2. I don't want to publish something that has any potential mistakes because those mistakes will get repeated over and over. It takes too much time to verify it all. 3. The farther you go back in time, the more likely there are questionable ancestors and multiple matching lines. 4. I want people look at my surname list with geographical locations next to each name and not just a tree. Some of the surnames on my list are possible or probable but not proven. Maybe there is a middle name that sounds like it came from an ancestor and I believe I am on the right track because clearly the name, date and location show that surname in the same place at the same time.? Getting over those brick walls may mean showing information that is not yet proven in the pedigree. 5. Even if I go back 4 generations, am I likely to randomly match any true 3rd cousins? NO!! because you need a database of over a million to find that one in a million 3rd cousin. Even if you have more than 300 3rd cousins alive today, there are over 300 million people living in the U.S. Does FTDNA test that many people? No. Are the 3rd and 4th cousin predictions accurate? Not at all because in general you are picking up the more distant cousins right now that are falling out of their expected cM range. Some of these segments are probably over 2 standard deviations above their expected size so your chance of finding the ancestor is low. What I am saying is that what looks like a 3rd or 4th cousin is really a very distant cousin. The database has not yet reached a critical sample size. So is it really worth all the effort right now? 6. Family Finder (or Relative Finder) works best if you are trying to test a hypothesis. ?For example, on the television show, at PBS, "Finding Your Roots", Henry Louis Gates, Jr. used autosomal DNA to see if an African American could have been descended from a slave owner by testing a presumed 3rd cousin who had a good paper trail. That is how this autosomal DNA should be used successfully, as a tool to test a hypothesis. These tests are not nearly as good at finding those random matches that everyone is talking about. So that is why I am in no hurry; I admittedly do need to work on getting a GEDCOM updated, but maybe for other reasons... Kathy J.