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Gedcom Help Please
« on: Wednesday 06 February 08 16:42 GMT (UK) »
I downloaded a gedcom file from the family search site. How on earth do I look at it now. My computer keep saying that it needs to know how it was created to be able to open. Help !! What do I do now?
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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 06 February 08 16:49 GMT (UK) »
Have you got  a family tree software program installed on your computer?

In order to open the gedcom file you need to have an application like a family tree program.
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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 06 February 08 17:03 GMT (UK) »
Oh I see. I have got one that came free with a Daily Mail that I have not yet put on the computer. Do you think that might do? It is made by GSP.
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 February 08 17:11 GMT (UK) »
Yes that should help. Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 06 February 08 17:13 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, Downside , I will give it a try.
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Re: Gedcom Help Please
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 06 February 08 17:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi,

It may not be very satisfactory, but if you are impatient to see what is there you can open a GEDCOM file in Notepad/Wordpad or even Word. It is only a simple text file, but follows very strict syntax so that a Family Tree program can incorporate it in a database.

Here is a sample (words in CAPS are roughly equivalent to column headings in a spreadsheet, @...@ are references which connect it all together  Grin):

0 @I287@ INDI
1 NAME George /Loveland/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1823
2 PLAC Shalford,Surrey
2 SOUR @S7@
2 SOUR @S5@
3 DATA
4 TEXT Baptised on 04/04/1824
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 FEB 1904
2 PLAC Godsden Common,Shalford

Which translates to:
George Loveland
male
Born 30 OCT 1823 Shalford,Surrey
Baptised on 04/04/1824
Died 24 FEB 1904 Godsden Common,Shalford
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