I'll post this to the lists for everyone. You know what. I'm BRAIN DEAD. I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier. It's something I do all the time. DUMB ME!!!!! (Am having a major Brain malfunction I guess!!) The heck with the GEDCOM. This way is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH easier. IF you are using Family Tree Maker. Sorry guys, I don't know anything about the other programs. Bring up the person that you want to start with and do an "Outline". You'll need to change a few of the options on this, but I'll take you through it. All of these changes are under the 'Contents' option. First change the number of generations to include to 4. This will include all of the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Next, with the NAME, (right hand column), highlight it and the 'options' box will appear so you can open it. Change the name option to Last, First, Middle. You can leave the 'aka' portion checked if you want. Now, the dates. Use the Birth, Death, and Marriage, and in the options part of all three of these, make sure the Date and Comment/Location is marked. The other options on these you can leave as they are. If you have information in any of the 'Fact' fields or anything else you want to include, feel free to add them also. The reason I like the LAST name first, is the last name is generally what a person scans a document for first. Even though the last name appears in all caps, I personally just find it easier to locate someone if the last name is first. And, Last Name first is the way I was taught!!!! Now that you have all of the information you want included in your Descendants of 'Whomever', go to the 'Edit' option and you'll see 'Copy Outline Descendant Tree'. Click on that and it will copy the info you have on the screen in your Descendants outline. However, you might before you do this, make sure you have your word processing program open. Now, switch to your word processing program and use either your 'Edit' 'Paste' or Control key and 'V' to paste the info. I wouldn't use the 'paste' icon as it has a tendency not to work or not work properly. Don't worry about what the outline looks like after you have in your word processing program, as I'll have to do some editing with it when I convert it to HTML and do the indexing. You can also add any notes you want while you have it in your word processing program. Please make sure you have your name in the file also. I can get your email address from your message. I have both WordPerfect 8 and Word (whatever the WIN95/8 version is). Make sure when you email the file to me, you send it as an ATTACHMENT and not part of the message. If your Descendants Tree isn't but a page or two, you can also just copy it to your email message, but I would suggest you use the 'control' V to do this. Eudora doesn't paste if you use Edit-Paste (or at least mine doesn't!!!) Let me know if I can help you with any of this. I have a tendency to be a little confusing. Thanks for all of the responses regarding this. I really couldn't believe the first message I got was part of some of whom I was looking for. I think I'm still a little in shock from it. WOW. You guys are great. Beverly Williams Gardner USGenWeb - MOGenWeb Project County Coordinator NODAWAY, ATCHISON, WORTH CO'S, MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~monodawa/nodaway.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~moatchis/atchison.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~moworth/worth.html HEDRICK FAMILY RESEARCHERS HOME PAGE http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/4056/ Personal Home Pages http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/4090/ http://members.wbs.net/homepages/m/u/t/muttleybelle.html http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/a/r/Beverly-J-Gardner/