"David R. Holloway" <[email protected]> wrote: >I have baulked at tangling with >GEDCOMS. It now seems that I have no choice but to get my feet wet so how >best can this be done without wading through the full GEDCOM spec Well, I'm pretty sure you don't want to read the 'gedcom spec' ... it would be easier to read a lawyer document or some rules pamphlet put out by the government. <g> There's not much problem transferring basic genealogical data via gedcom files. It's when you get fancy by creating user defined facts or moving data between different genealogy programs that have features different from each other that some of the data in the fringe areas get missed. Start by exporting a gedcom from FO of just a few people. FO will do all the work ... all you have to do is select which people you want to export from the selection dialog. Then import the gedcom into a new database in FO. You can compare the new database next to the old database and see how well it did. That's your start ... you can go from there! Wayne League