[email protected] wrote: >Is there any program that will take a GEDCOM and clean out all the people who >now have the first name of "Living" as a result of privatizing? (Sorry if >this is a dumb question, but this can be a real mess. I would rather not even >have the living in the file to begin with.) FO can help you do this. Import the gedcom into a temporary database and then export a new gedcom where you select individuals to export by first marking everyone in the database and then unmarking the ones you find whose given name contains "Living". Wayne League