Export gedcom file

 

To create a GEDCOM file, pick File from the main screen menu and then pick Gedcom, Export.  Note: when you create a GEDCOM file, you now have a choice of either exporting all the names in your file, or selecting which names to export.  If you want to transfer only part of your file, then you will be taken to a routine just like the split database routine.  

  

The export routine will ask for the name of the GEDCOM file you want to create.  Type the name for the file followed by .GED. 

 

If you are making a GEDCOM file that will be placed on the Internet, be sure to set the option to Exclude data for living people.

 

If you are making a large GEDCOM file, create the file on the hard disk and then later copy the file to a CD or use a program like WINZIP to compress the file and copy it to floppies. 

 

After the file is created, you may use another genealogy program's GEDCOM reading routine to move the data into that program (see the other program's directions on how to read the GEDCOM file.)