Is there a way to copy a small part of my family information from the FO data base to send to someone via email? Thanks for your help. Helen Leino

Rick & Helen Leino <[email protected]> wrote: >Is there a way to copy a small part of my family information from the FO >data base to send to someone via email? Many of the FO reports can be sent to a text file which can be attached to an email or, if they are short, can even be copied and pasted into the main body of an email. In FO10 most reports, including pedigree and box charts and reports containing photos, can be sent to an Acrobat PDF file which can also be attached to an email. Anyone who has downloaded the free Acrobat Reader can view and print out these charts and reports. Wayne League

Wayne thought you wanted to send a report. He told you how to do this. I think that you want to send some of the data for them to use in their own genealogy database. To do this, you send a GEDCOM file as an attachment to your email message. I have one key on my keyboard programmed to send this message with every GEDCOM file I send: ----------------- Create a new database to import this GEDCOM into. Once you have reviewed it you can export and copy to your main database what information you are sure you want. Never import an unknown GEDCOM into an existing database without having a couple of good backups first. ----------------- To create a GEDCOM of a small portion of your database: Open Family Origins and your database, Go to the File menu and select GEDCOM, Export GEDCOM, Give the file a name and a place to live. On the next dialogue window, "GEDCOM Export", make sure you choose "Select people to export", the Destination should be "General" and at the bottom of the window, choose which kinds of items you want to share. (I choose to preserve wordwrapping in notes because some notes are such that they need it) When you click on [OK] you are taken to the Family Origins Explorer window where you select the people you want to export. You can select Uncle Charley and all of his descendants, and/or Aunt Harriet and all of her ancestors and their children or you can select everyone in the database except certain individuals. This is quite a powerful little selection tool. Be warned, if you select descendants or ancestors and "Entire line" you are liable to get the whole database. That is because many people are related in more than one way and that way, your ancestors might be related to your descendants, so everyone is part of the "entire line". Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick & Helen Leino" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: [FO] sending information by email > Is there a way to copy a small part of my family information from the FO > data base to send to someone via email? > Thanks for your help. > > Helen Leino >