To Dave Bradshaw When you pick "Ancestors and family of ancestors", you get the children of the ancestors, but not the spouses of the children of the ancestors. If you want a larger group, you can try "Entire Branch" which includes a lot more. If you have picture files attached to people on the Media tab, they will probably end up as picture files if you import it again. Any sound, video, or PDF files will go to the Media tab. The gedcom file just shows what files are attached to people, and the gedcom file does not have a way to specify if a picture file should be picture or media. I am working on a way to create a list of all files that are attached to people in the gedcom file. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Bradshaw" <davebradshaw@sympatico.ca> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: [BK] Gedcom creation > John: > > > > I am creating a gedcom to send to a cousin. This will be records from my > mother and her ancesters. The creation works fine but there are a couple > of questions that arise out of the creation of the file. > > > > If I ask for "Ancestors of a Person plus family of each Ancestor" and my > starting ancestor, my mother, has siblings, some of which married, the > gedcom does not appear to copy the wife of a sibling. Should it? > > > > When the gedcom is redisplayed in BK, the media files are all shown under > the Pictures tab. All the strings still point to the original files BK > numbers and media or picture folders. > > As I want to send the associated media files and picture files along with > the gedcom, does the creation of the gedcom create a file/files of the > media > and picture data which is written on the gedcom. If not, is there any way > that maybe that could be looked at in the future. It would make it much > easier to add those files as an attachment jpg so that the other person > could link the data and the relative media/picture files into whichever > program they are using. At the moment, one has to go through the gedcom > file looking for whichever media file/picture file is displayed and then > copy off the file itself for transfer as an attachment. > > > > > > Hope I've not confused you by now. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dave Bradshaw > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >