Dick, you make some excellent points, particularly about the need to get acquainted with gedcom transfers. I routinely move files into and out of FO and my experience is that FO has the best gedcom import on the market in that almost anything from another program's gedcom output can be mapped to FO (if the user will experiment and practice). I suspect we can rely on Bruce to meet this same high level of compatibility with Rootsmate. Jim 7/27/2002 9:15:51 AM, "Dick Wells" <[email protected]> wrote: ,snip> >A word of advice to those not really up to speed on GEDCOM's - learn everything you can and practice importing and exporting. Learn about the LST (error) file and it's messages too. Remember, a GEDCOM will only export the data you explicitly set up for export. If an option is not turned on, that data will be excluded. Two places control what is exported, the GEDCOM dialog and the Fact Types dialog. Each fact has it's own setup.