Dick Wells said: >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. < Oh dear. My interest is in Family History and to accomodate that I try to understand every which-way of Family Origins but 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 (which I assume is available somewhere? David