>I would also like to make a suggestion that would automate creating a >gedcom file on a specific branch or twig of one's family tree. For >example, I have a link to President Thomas Jefferson( He is a very >distant cousin several times removed) and I want to create a gedcom file >of that specific branch. Could it be possible for the computer to look >at that branch from a specific person and look forward and include >everyone linked into this branch of the family? I was thinking if this >was possible, that the key individual would be selected and a icon would >be clicked on >and the program would do its magic and create a gedcom file. This would >be better than having to do it manually. This sounds like the Marking in Ver 2 where you pick a person and then choose to mark all of that person's ancestors or ancestral branch or descendants or descendant branch. In Version 3 I will have something similar. BUT this will be handled via "Selection Lists". In fact there is some work already done on the selection lists - but I have not entered the ancestor descendent stuff. I need to add that. The purpose of the Selection Lists vs the old Marking done in Ver 2 is that with the Selection Lists you can create multiple "marked" lists, thus you could have one List that was named "Pres. Thomas Jefferson's Ancestors" and another named "Pres Thomas Jefferson's Descendants" and thus when an Indexed Book is created you simply tell one report to use one list and the other report to use a different list. OR when you do a GED Export you tell it which Selection List to use and there goes the GED file. I hope the use of these Selection Lists is now clearer. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com