He sent you a copy of the Family Tree Maker database, not a GEDCOM copy of it. If you cannot educate him on how to create a GEDCOM file, you may be able to find someone with FTM who can convert it for you. In FTM 6, which is the only one I have, to export a GEDCOM file: Go to the file menu, Select "Copy/Export Family File At the bottom of the "New Family File" dialog window, "Save as type" has to be set to: "GEDCOM (*.GED) Then you can enter a file name, just above it, and hit the save button. (I am only guessing that this process hasn't changed too much from version to version) With the GEDCOM file, you can COMmunicate your GEnealogical Data with others that have different genealogy programs. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "JohnFiala" <searcher@kdsi.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:20 AM Subject: [FO] GEDCOM from FTM help > A person who was supposed to be sending me a little GEDCOM from his FTM > software actually sent me a 10.6 MB file named with his name, but with > an extension of .FTW He says he "sent me everything he had" and that is > the way he "has exported before". (Maybe it's the whole program?) > > Having never seen FTM I'd like some step by step direction thru the menu > in order to tell him what he should do to create a GEDCOM. Thanks. > > John Fiala >