Hi,Glenn, Thank you for your explanation. VObviously Aol has improved since I was with the UK branch. You have the key. The file should be an attachment. Keith At 03:26 PM 11/8/98 EST, you wrote: >Keith, and others, > I haven't mailed you a gedcom, but I do mail them via AOL all the time and >have not had any problems doing so. Part of the problem may just as easily be >the genealogy program used. Assuming the mailer knows how to create a gedcom >from their genealogy program (and programs like FamilyTreemaker have an export >option in which one may choose to export as an FTW file or several types of >gedcoms) the process is as follows: >1) Open a new e-mail message to the individual to whom you would like to send >a gedcom (they cannot be sent to a rootsweb listserve group). >2) Fill out the "send to", "subject" and body of the message as per routine >3) Click the "attachments" button (to the left, in AOL 3.0, or at the bottom >of the message in AOL 4.0). >4) Locate your gedcom file, double click on it. You will see the name of the >file appear below the e-mail message. >5) Click OK >6) Click the "send" button. You should see a box with a blue line come across >it indicating the gedcom is uploading to the mail server. When it finishes you >should get the message "message sent." Then you are done. > >Note: If you are getting gedcoms in the body of a message, it can only come >from someone trying to drag and drop it into a message or cut and paste it >into a message. But that is not how it is done. > >Hope this helps. >Glenn > > Keith Hume, email khume@netcomuk.co.uk CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~khume/home.html Kent,England Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.) HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada) SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England) FALL,(Ireland & Australia) BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)