*g* I am a late comer to the conversation, and I haven't downloaded the file this month yet but if I remember right, (correct me if my rememberer is off kilter) but doesn't the merge.bat combine the 5 or 6 parts, leaving you with a file that when executed, forms the gedcom, importable into FOW, PAF, BK, et al? Just a thought..... I will go back to sleep now. *smile* Regards, Murray LOOPER On 19 Aug 2000, at 14:46, Stephanie Holmes wrote: > I had the same problem, I have the files downloaded and can't use > them. Nothing seems to work. Stephanie - ListAdmin LOOPER-L@rootsweb.com To post a message: LOOPER-L@rootsweb.com To sub or unsub from send to: LOOPER-L-request@rootsweb.com with only the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the body of the message Online Database is updated monthly...(Corrections welcome!) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~oldpend/looper/loox.htm ****** ***Searching for my paternal branches of the following:*** ~ LOOPER ~ LUPER ~ STAPLES ~ COBB ~ CARTER ~ SULLINS ~ SLAGLE ~ ~ KEAN ~ PRATHER ~ VAN_NATTA ~ HOLMES ~ HOGE ~ HUME ~ WHITE ~ ~ De St JULIEN ~ BULLOCK ~ LONG ~ McKINNEY ~ PURCELL ~ TREECE ~ ~ SMITH ~ LIPE ~ HALL ~ SHOEMAKER ~ THOMAS ~ SMALLWOOD ~ GRIFFITH ~ ~ GRIFFY ~ MEARS ~ CRABTREE ~ HUTCHISON ~ McFARLAND ~ PERRIN ~ ~ BRAGG ~ KOTHE ~ KOGER ~ PREVOE ~ OWENS ~ CROSS ~ PITTMAN ~ ~ HUBBARD ~ THURSTON ~ MARLOWE ~ SHOEMAKER ~ MILLSAPS ~ BARKER ~ ~ JOLLY ~ ROBEY ~ GWALTNEY ~ HOGE ~ HUME ~ WHITE ~ BULLOCK ~ ~ VAN_TASSEL ~ and all the way back to great grandpappy NOAH! (It's the ones in between I am a bit foggy on!)