Hi Louise (and others) Try http://www.raynorshyn.com/gedclean/ which is a link to a programme called gedclean which you use on your gedcom. It'll delete all living people from that gedcom so that you can safely post it to the internet. There are two versions here, I am referring you to the free one and have to say I have never used it-I used gedprivy which doesn't seem to be available any longer. The only other way is to contact all the people in the tree and ask them for their express permission to post the tree on-line. You can be sure that they won't all agree and you'll have to mess about removing people manually. HTH Sherry (in Salford, LAN) On 17/06/2008, Alfred and Louise <alfredlouise@btinternet.com> wrote: > It must be converted to GEDCOM format. > > As I am still working on it and worried about privacy of those lviing. is it a good idea?