Thanks for very helpful suggestions. Pat Geary explained that I could open gedcom files with Notepad. Based on Pat Asher's additional observations, with Notepad I opened the gedcom I had uploaded on WorldConnect, deleted the extra Notes for a couple of key people as a test, saved it as a new gedcom and then uploaded it as an update for my tree on WorldConnect. It worked. When I have the time and patience, I'll go back another step to see if there's something in the FTM file which prompts the multiple Note entries when exported as a gedcom. But for now, I have a way of fixing the gedcom manually. Thanks again!! Message: 8 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:29:11 -0400 From: Pat Asher <pjroots@att.net> Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Duplicate Notes in WorldConnect tree To: Freepages-Help <Freepages-Help@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <178646.6271.qm@smtp104.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 06:56 PM 7/13/2011, Charles Dobie wrote: >I think a safer method (but more time-consuming) is to search for >duplicate notes in the GEDCOM file in Notepad and when you find one >then manually fix it in your genealogy database using your genealogy program. It does depend somewhat on whether your program supports, and you use, non-standard GEDCOM tags. However, if you are importing your GEDCOM back into the same program that created it, it should recognize all of the non-standard tags that it created in the first place :) Pat ***************

At 11:16 AM 7/14/2011, Harlan Rosacker wrote: >When I have the time and patience, I'll go back another step to see if >there's something in the FTM file which prompts the multiple Note entries >when exported as a gedcom. But for now, I have a way of fixing the gedcom >manually. If you import your manually edited GEDCOM back into FTM as a NEW database, you can then compare it against the old one containing the duplicates notes. That might give you a clue. Pat Asher