Hello: I want to make a Gedcom for our niece which incudes all her ancesters and their families. The one I made included my side of the family which she is not related to other than by marriage. Is it possible to incude all of her ancesters and their families without the others? Sally Thoreson

Everyone has been reviewing all the usual suspects in the case of FTM opening and importing the gedcom file, but that is not addressing the problem for Echo Zornes who said: >I went to FO and opened it up, made a new >database, went to Menu, then File, then Gedcom and Import Gedcom. I clicked >on Import Gedcom and up pops FTM and the gedcom goes in there. I have long since learned not to say "that's impossible" to any report about computer shenanigans but I was tempted to say it about this event. At any rate, I felt it must be as rare as a two headed cat. But after some effort, I HAVE found a way to get FTM to open and import a gedcom file while you are in FO trying to import it there. That is, when you have found the gedcom in the FO file finder dialog, instead of pressing the "open" button in the dialog box, you can right click on the gedcom file, choose the "open" item there, and if the gedcom file is associated with FTM (as it will be if you have ever opened FTM on your computer), FTM will then open and import the gedcom file. (In my case my text editor opens and displays the gedcom file). So, Echo, could that be the sequence of events that got your gedcom importing into FTM? When importing a gedcom file into FO you should not right click in the file find dialog. Use the "open" button in the dialog box instead, once you have highlighted the gedcom file to import. Wayne League

Hi All, First of all I'd like to thank each and everyone that responded to my plight about FTM grabbing the gedcom when I wanted it to go into Family Origins. Thank you all. Secondly........I got the familys off the gedcoms that had gone into the FTM program, as this wasn't the first time that happened and now all I have to do is type them into my FO. Again, thank you so much. Echo Zornes

Please do yourself a favor...DO NOT GO INTO THE WINDOWS REGISTRY! You can cause more problems if you do that. If you don't know what you are doing specifically...then don't even attempt it. I go into the registry on rare occasions...and I am a very experienced user! Follow the directions to change file type recognition. That will work. As for FTM opening gedcoms if you do that again within windows...this is no special thing that FTM does. If you change the Internet Browser that you use, or the word processing program you use...you will have the same problems for a while. You are essentially teaching your computer what program that you like to open certain file types. If you really want to protect yourself...back up your data frequently...if your computer has problems with Windows or whatever, you won't lose too much if you have to reformat. That is why you buy your own software! Carmen Johnson Email: carmenmjo@home.com Web Page: http://members.nbci.com/carmenj PRA Group 7: http://members.nbci.com/carmenj/PenningtonPage/PRAGroup7.htm Gallup Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gallupfam/index.htm Genealogy Page: http://members.nbci.com/Gheirlooms ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Plucinik" <aplucinik@worldnet.att.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 8:13 PM Subject: Re: [FO] What to do? > Echo, > > First, I would uninstall FTM by going into Control Panel then Add/Remove > programs. Then I would make a backup of my Windows registry and then go into > the Windows Registry and remove anything in any of the folders within the > registry that are obviously FTM. Just be careful. If there is any doubt as to > whether the entry is associated with FTM, then leave it alone. > > Sounds like FTM is almost as bad as a virus. > > Allan Plucinik > Colorado Springs, CO > > Echo Zornes wrote: > > > > Thank you for your reply. No I am not using Windows Explorer to > > double-click on the gedcom file. I went to FO and opened it up, made a new > > database, went to Menu, then File, then Gedcom and Import Gedcom. I clicked > > on Import Gedcom and up pops FTM and the gedcom goes in there. Am trying > > to find the way to fix FO to be the default and one of these days I'm going > > to remove FTM altogether. It has 8-10 gedcoms on it that got there the > > same way. > > > > Thanks Allan. > > Echo > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm > Browsable Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/ > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >

Echo, First, I would uninstall FTM by going into Control Panel then Add/Remove programs. Then I would make a backup of my Windows registry and then go into the Windows Registry and remove anything in any of the folders within the registry that are obviously FTM. Just be careful. If there is any doubt as to whether the entry is associated with FTM, then leave it alone. Sounds like FTM is almost as bad as a virus. Allan Plucinik Colorado Springs, CO Echo Zornes wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. No I am not using Windows Explorer to > double-click on the gedcom file. I went to FO and opened it up, made a new > database, went to Menu, then File, then Gedcom and Import Gedcom. I clicked > on Import Gedcom and up pops FTM and the gedcom goes in there. Am trying > to find the way to fix FO to be the default and one of these days I'm going > to remove FTM altogether. It has 8-10 gedcoms on it that got there the > same way. > > Thanks Allan. > Echo >

Wayne League wrote: > <snip> > Every time you merely open the FTM program it is going to reconfigure > the gedcom file type to claim the "open" action for itself ... > If you follow the instructions at http://genforum.genealogy.com/using/messages/17980.html very carefully the change will be permanent until you change it again, unless maybe reinstalling FTM would change it back... never tried that. FTW GEDCOM will still be shown in the File Type box, however. My .ged files have been associated with EditPad for some time now and opening FTM has had no effect. I seem to remember that following the Windows instructions on changing associations did give the effect that Wayne describes, like something was omitted. Al

that was the corrwct one. FTW is Family Treemaker for Windows. Echo Zornes wrote: > Thank you Charlie for all the information. When I get to the place > where I have to scroll down the list, I don't find FTM GEDCOM file. > This is what is there: FTM Family File, FTW Backup File, FTW Compact > Backup File, FTW Family File, FTW Gedcom File. What does FTW mean. > What FTM means (to me) is Family Tree Maker. So anyway I didn't go > any further because that certain file wasn't there. Any other > suggestions? :-) > > Thanks so much. > Echo > > > At 09:40 PM 6/17/01 -0500, Charlie wrote: > >> Echo, >> >> There are a couple of possibilities.... >> >> First, do you still use FTM, even occasionally? If yes, the you need >> to know that even if you change the "association" in Windows to >> something other than FTM, FTM will "reset" that association to FTM >> every time you start up FTM. This has been a complaint about FTM for >> as long as I've known about the program. So changing the association >> will do nothing to help you with that problem. >> >> Second, you can still import any GEDCOM into FO from within FO. What >> is happening when FTM starts up and then loads the GEDCOM is that you >> are double clicking on the GEDCOM file from "My Computer" or Windows >> Explorer. You can't get a GEDCOM into FO using this technique. >> >> Third, if you still want to double click on the GEDCOM, and have some >> other program start (I have my computer set up to start MS Word and >> then load the GEDCOM into Word), there is a way to do that. On the >> possibility that this is what you want to do, I'll list the steps >> here: >> >> Open Windows Explorer and from the menu bar across the top, click on >> View >> Then click on Folder Options >> Then click on File Types >> Then scroll down the list until you find FTM GEDCOM File >> (Note, it will only be called this if you've run FTM on this computer) >> Highlight this and click on the button labeled Edit >> In the box labeled Actions there should be the word "Open" >> (we'll be adding another action by the following steps) >> Click on the box labeled New >> In the box that opens up enter START for the new action, and browse to >> enter the application used to perform the action. On my system this is >> what it looks like: >> >> "C:\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" >> >> Close this window, then highlight START and click the button labeled >> "Set Default" so this is the action normally performed when you double >> click on a file name. >> >> Close all windows and open Windows Explorer and test to make sure >> everything works as you expected. >> >> I hope this helps... >> >> >> Echo Zornes wrote: >> > >> > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have >> used FO >> > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to >> the 9th >> > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I >> installed >> > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a >> gedcom >> > into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its >> program. I >> > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't >> want to use >> > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know >> how to >> > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? >> > Thanks ever so much, >> > Echo Zornes > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All > messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > -- (o o) ------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------ Mary Stickney (IBSSG) - owner of 6 Rams and 1 ewe MY HOMEPAGES: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=stickneys http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/ my mystery http://www.alltel.net/~ms81250/ http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0058photo.html http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0057photo.html Surnames: Yerington, Rogness, Wade, Ankles, Sorensen, Overbeck, Jensen, Duncan, Austin, Osborn, Goodall, Baldwin, Pearce, Suiter , Avery , Bill. Covey

In a message dated Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:53:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Echo Zornes <echo70@oz.net> writes: << Hello Wayne, Thank you for responding to my problem. I don't double-click on the gedcom. I go about it like the others have talked about. I know it is the correct way, to have Family Origins open and make a database and then file, gedcom, and import gedcom. >> Hmmm...if you are *NEVER* double-clicking...then the file association settings should not even come into play. Their sole purpose is to pre-determine which program will automatically open a file of that particular extension, when "double-clicked",(for all intents and purposes, it has to be a program that "understands" the underlying format of that file, of course). The solutions that have already been offered by others, were discussed in a message thread at the FTM tech support forums. See the following URL for your web browser (credit goes to Al Turner who is a member of this list): http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-genforum/pageload.cgi?association::using::17978.html In additon, the FTW file extension(s) are explained here: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/support/windows/07013.html?Welcome=992851627 FTW -- The standard Family File extension. All Family Files you create will have this extension. This is the file you work with, the one that opens each time you start Family Tree Maker. ([F]amily [T]ree Maker for [W]indows) Someone will likely come up with additional suggestions ... before you know it ! Have a nice day, -=Kevin Benson=-

Echo Zornes <echo70@oz.net> wrote: >The problem is when I try to import a gedcom >into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. Well, FO will not import a gedcom file from your double clicking on it, even if you did not have FTM on your computer. The way to import a gedcom file into FO is first open the FO program and then choose to import the gedcom file from the file menu or the tool bar. And as far as FTM claiming that gedcom files belong to it, you can ignore that, because it is not true and it doesn't mean anything. And if you want to stop FTM from importing the gedcom file into itself every time you double click on one and have your computer do something useful with the gedcom file instead when you double click on it, like opening it in your text editor, maybe, then go to your folder options, find the gedcom file type, leave the "open" action alone but add another with a different name and set up the program that you want to use it. Then set that new action to be the default instead of the "open" action. Fortunately, the hardheads at FTM have not made their program reset the default too. But if they do, you could still right click on the gedcom file and choose the action you set up for it. Every time you merely open the FTM program it is going to reconfigure the gedcom file type to claim the "open" action for itself and to "claim" that gedcom files are FTM files in the "type" column of windows explorer. There is nothing you can do about this, but it does not mean a thing. It does not interfere with FO's ability to import gedcom files in the slightest bit. Wayne League

At 09:13 PM 6/17/01, you wrote: >I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO >since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th >version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed >Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom >into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I >only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use >anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to >"fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? >Thanks ever so much, >Echo Zornes FO will not launch the program by clicking on a GEDCOM, unlike FTM. I have my default program opener for GEDCOMS as Kedit, a text editor I use. To change the file association, go to Windows Explorer. Click on help and look for "associating file types with programs." All the information is given on how to change from FTM to your choice of default opener. --Derick

Echo, There are a couple of possibilities.... First, do you still use FTM, even occasionally? If yes, the you need to know that even if you change the "association" in Windows to something other than FTM, FTM will "reset" that association to FTM every time you start up FTM. This has been a complaint about FTM for as long as I've known about the program. So changing the association will do nothing to help you with that problem. Second, you can still import any GEDCOM into FO from within FO. What is happening when FTM starts up and then loads the GEDCOM is that you are double clicking on the GEDCOM file from "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. You can't get a GEDCOM into FO using this technique. Third, if you still want to double click on the GEDCOM, and have some other program start (I have my computer set up to start MS Word and then load the GEDCOM into Word), there is a way to do that. On the possibility that this is what you want to do, I'll list the steps here: Open Windows Explorer and from the menu bar across the top, click on View Then click on Folder Options Then click on File Types Then scroll down the list until you find FTM GEDCOM File (Note, it will only be called this if you've run FTM on this computer) Highlight this and click on the button labeled Edit In the box labeled Actions there should be the word "Open" (we'll be adding another action by the following steps) Click on the box labeled New In the box that opens up enter START for the new action, and browse to enter the application used to perform the action. On my system this is what it looks like: "C:\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" Close this window, then highlight START and click the button labeled "Set Default" so this is the action normally performed when you double click on a file name. Close all windows and open Windows Explorer and test to make sure everything works as you expected. I hope this helps... Echo Zornes wrote: > > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? > Thanks ever so much, > Echo Zornes -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Some people are annoyed by the way FTM puts it's name and icon on a GEDCOM file, but It hurts nothing. The only way that Family Origins can use a GEDCOM is to import it from within Family Origins, using the file menu, GEDCOM - Import GEDCOM. You have to pull it into the program, you can not click on it and have Family Origins open it whether the FTM icon and name are on it or not. You *can* double click on a file with an FOW extension and Family Origins will open and load that database. But it won't with a GEDCOM. As Derick said, you can change the association, but it is a bit tricky, FTM will come back again if you delete it from the association list. You have to move it down and add the preferred link above it if I remember right. The icon and name do not hurt a thing, except that if you forget and double click on a GEDCOM file, it will open FTM and show you what is in it. All you have to do is close FTM. It does not hurt the GEDCOM file a bit. Good Luck, Alfred ================ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Echo Zornes" <echo70@oz.net> > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? > Thanks ever so much, > Echo Zornes

Thank you Charlie for all the information. When I get to the place where I have to scroll down the list, I don't find FTM GEDCOM file. This is what is there: FTM Family File, FTW Backup File, FTW Compact Backup File, FTW Family File, FTW Gedcom File. What does FTW mean. What FTM means (to me) is Family Tree Maker. So anyway I didn't go any further because that certain file wasn't there. Any other suggestions? :-) Thanks so much. Echo At 09:40 PM 6/17/01 -0500, Charlie wrote: >Echo, > >There are a couple of possibilities.... > >First, do you still use FTM, even occasionally? If yes, the you need >to know that even if you change the "association" in Windows to >something other than FTM, FTM will "reset" that association to FTM >every time you start up FTM. This has been a complaint about FTM for >as long as I've known about the program. So changing the association >will do nothing to help you with that problem. > >Second, you can still import any GEDCOM into FO from within FO. What >is happening when FTM starts up and then loads the GEDCOM is that you >are double clicking on the GEDCOM file from "My Computer" or Windows >Explorer. You can't get a GEDCOM into FO using this technique. > >Third, if you still want to double click on the GEDCOM, and have some >other program start (I have my computer set up to start MS Word and >then load the GEDCOM into Word), there is a way to do that. On the >possibility that this is what you want to do, I'll list the steps >here: > >Open Windows Explorer and from the menu bar across the top, click on >View >Then click on Folder Options >Then click on File Types >Then scroll down the list until you find FTM GEDCOM File >(Note, it will only be called this if you've run FTM on this computer) >Highlight this and click on the button labeled Edit >In the box labeled Actions there should be the word "Open" >(we'll be adding another action by the following steps) >Click on the box labeled New >In the box that opens up enter START for the new action, and browse to >enter the application used to perform the action. On my system this is >what it looks like: > >"C:\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" > >Close this window, then highlight START and click the button labeled >"Set Default" so this is the action normally performed when you double >click on a file name. > >Close all windows and open Windows Explorer and test to make sure >everything works as you expected. > >I hope this helps... > > >Echo Zornes wrote: > > > > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO > > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th > > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed > > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > > into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I > > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use > > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to > > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? > > Thanks ever so much, > > Echo Zornes

Echo, It sounds like you are using windows explorer to double-click on the gedcom file and then you are expecting FO to come to life and import the data. To my knowledge, FO doesn't work that way. Whenever I want to import a gedcom file into FO I simply start up FO then go to the menu bar, select FILE, GEDCOM, IMPORT GEDCOM, then follow the prompts for selecting and importing the gedcom file. I would recommend importing the gedcom file into an empty database first so you can examine the data, before importing it into your primary working database. Allan Plucinik Colorado Springs, CO Echo Zornes wrote: > > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? > Thanks ever so much, > Echo Zornes > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Hello Wayne, Thank you for responding to my problem. I don't double-click on the gedcom. I go about it like the others have talked about. I know it is the correct way, to have Family Origins open and make a database and then file, gedcom, and import gedcom. Well I don't think I could follow the below instructions as I'm not that good at going into associations but I guess I'll get rid of the FTM one of these days. Maybe put the gedcoms on a Zip Disk or something. Thanks again. Echo At 10:07 PM 6/17/01 -0400, Wayne League wrote: >Echo Zornes <echo70@oz.net> wrote: > > >The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > >into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. > >Well, FO will not import a gedcom file from your double clicking on >it, even if you did not have FTM on your computer. The way to import >a gedcom file into FO is first open the FO program and then choose to >import the gedcom file from the file menu or the tool bar. > >And as far as FTM claiming that gedcom files belong to it, you can >ignore that, because it is not true and it doesn't mean anything. And >if you want to stop FTM from importing the gedcom file into itself >every time you double click on one and have your computer do something >useful with the gedcom file instead when you double click on it, like >opening it in your text editor, maybe, then go to your folder options, >find the gedcom file type, leave the "open" action alone but add >another with a different name and set up the program that you want to >use it. Then set that new action to be the default instead of the >"open" action. Fortunately, the hardheads at FTM have not made their >program reset the default too. But if they do, you could still right >click on the gedcom file and choose the action you set up for it. > >Every time you merely open the FTM program it is going to reconfigure >the gedcom file type to claim the "open" action for itself and to >"claim" that gedcom files are FTM files in the "type" column of >windows explorer. There is nothing you can do about this, but it does >not mean a thing. It does not interfere with FO's ability to import >gedcom files in the slightest bit. > >Wayne League

Hello Alfred, Thank you for responding to my problem. I did exactly as you have described below. Never did "double click" on anything, anytime. FTM just took it and put it in its' program and I wanted it in FO. I wouldn't know how to monkey with the associations list, have never done that so will perhaps have to take it to the shop. Thanks again. Echo At 09:26 PM 6/17/01 -0500, Alfred Eller wrote: >Some people are annoyed by the way FTM puts it's name and icon on a GEDCOM >file, but It hurts nothing. > >The only way that Family Origins can use a GEDCOM is to import it from >within Family Origins, using the file menu, GEDCOM - Import GEDCOM. You have >to pull it into the program, you can not click on it and have Family Origins >open it whether the FTM icon and name are on it or not. You *can* double >click on a file with an FOW extension and Family Origins will open and load >that database. But it won't with a GEDCOM. > >As Derick said, you can change the association, but it is a bit tricky, FTM >will come back again if you delete it from the association list. You have to >move it down and add the preferred link above it if I remember right. > >The icon and name do not hurt a thing, except that if you forget and double >click on a GEDCOM file, it will open FTM and show you what is in it. All you >have to do is close FTM. It does not hurt the GEDCOM file a bit. > >Good Luck, >Alfred > >================ >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Echo Zornes" <echo70@oz.net> > > > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO > > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th > > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed > > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > > into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I > > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use > > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to > > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? > > Thanks ever so much, > > Echo Zornes

Thank you for your reply. No I am not using Windows Explorer to double-click on the gedcom file. I went to FO and opened it up, made a new database, went to Menu, then File, then Gedcom and Import Gedcom. I clicked on Import Gedcom and up pops FTM and the gedcom goes in there. Am trying to find the way to fix FO to be the default and one of these days I'm going to remove FTM altogether. It has 8-10 gedcoms on it that got there the same way. Thanks Allan. Echo At 08:33 PM 6/17/01 -0600, Allan Plucinik wrote: >Echo, > >It sounds like you are using windows explorer to double-click on the >gedcom file >and then you are expecting FO to come to life and import the data. To my >knowledge, FO doesn't work that way. Whenever I want to import a gedcom >file >into FO I simply start up FO then go to the menu bar, select FILE, GEDCOM, >IMPORT GEDCOM, then follow the prompts for selecting and importing the gedcom >file. > >I would recommend importing the gedcom file into an empty database first >so you >can examine the data, before importing it into your primary working database. > >Allan Plucinik >Colorado Springs, CO > > > >Echo Zornes wrote: > > > > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO > > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th > > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed > > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > > into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I > > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use > > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to > > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? > > Thanks ever so much, > > Echo Zornes > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > >==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== >The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm >Browsable Archives: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/ > >============================== >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

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I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. The problem is when I try to import a gedcom into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. I only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? Thanks ever so much, Echo Zornes

Family Orgins Ver 9.02 is working very well for me but Family Origin users should be aware that familydiscovery.com is at it again. They are sending e-mails with a phoney address offering to sell a subscription to a search engine for $49 that does nothing but provide links. You can get this for free at all the legitimate search sites. The domain name owner registration in Cedar Rapids, IA does not list an address or phone number, but a physical address is given on the web site for sending payment but no phone number. The disclaimer says that all transactions are final and no refunds will be given. Don't be expect any value from this offer. Caveat emptor, and happy Family Originings. Al