That is a great idea! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred Eller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [FO] sending information by email > 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 > > > > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. > >