On Jan 22, 3:51 pm, Charlie Hoffpauir <inva...@invalid.com> wrote: > Of course a GED file is simply a structured text file. Yes, I know. > Any word processor or text editor can edit such a file. This means if you are > running Windows you already have two included..... Notepad and > Wordpad. I am not crazy enough to edit my genealogy tree in GEDCOM format by hand, using a text editor. ;-) > But why edit GEDCOM files directly? It's far easier to just > load it into a genealogy program and make your genealogical > corrections and additions there, then save it back as a GEDCOM. There > are several free Genealogy programs available too. This was exactly my first question. So far I have downloaded three freeware genealogy programs, installed it, noticed that they missed the feature to import GED files, then removed it from my machine. If you can point me to the names of some freeware programs able to work with GED files, I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance, L