Genealogy Chat

To quote from the FamilySearch web site: "WHAT IS A GEDCOM? GEDCOM stands for GEnealogical Data COMmunications and is a file format specification that allows different genealogical software programs to share data with each other. It was developed by the Family and Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide a flexible, uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data. This standard is supported by FamilySearch™ Internet, by the family history products that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints produces, as well as by the vendors of most of the major genealogical software products." E.G. I have a family tree programm and have input all my names that I have researched. I can then PRINT OUT a family tree, a pedigree chart, an individual family report, etc. I can also TRANSFER all that info as a GedCom file and let another person have it by either: A] putting it onto a floppy disk or B] by emailing it FROM THE FAMILY TREE PROGRAM ITSELF. For another person to receive it they MUST have a family tree program that will accept it (or like this web site have the facility installed). All a little complicated to a beginner - as I was 2 years ago - but we can all learn. That's what makes life so much more interesting - we never stop learning! Cheers Vera, Manchester, Lancs.