Jim Elbrecht wrote: > Is there something that will look at the 2 gedcoms- and say 'you added > info to person 3800' or 'you added person #3892', or 'deleted #16'? I have a program that will split up the GEDCOM, putting each level zero record into a file name after its xref ID. Then you can do a 'diff -rq' to find out which records differ or are added/deleted. BUT this won't work if the xref IDs are renumbered by the program on output. GIM has a pretty good comparison function that finds similar records by the actual data (birthdays, similar relatives, etc) -- Wes Groleau Alive and Well http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/