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Title: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: centre stand on Saturday 10 May 14 22:07 BST (UK)

I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I am a bit of a technophobe. I have just got in contact with a relative in the US and would like to send her a copy of my family tree which I have on my copy of Family Historian version 3. How in god's name do you either attach a gedcom file to an email or covert it into a word document?  ???

Title: Re: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: [Ray] on Sunday 11 May 14 09:32 BST (UK)

Hi Ian

No, not a stupid question.
A gedcom is just a formatted text file of the data.

I assume from your comments that you already have the gedcom?
Copy it (for safety) and call the copy, say, MyTree_May11.ged ( or even .txt )
Open with Wordpad (right click, open with. OR doubleclick if you have renamed it .txt)
Voila !?!
You can now see the content.

To send it (either/both copy files) via email.
Rightclick, select "Send to", select "email recipient".

(I have assumed that you maybe using Thunderbird/Outlook/OutlookExpress/ )
Should that not work . you send mail a different way, then repost with how you send emails
(eg Mail2web, or Hotmail, outlook.com etc)


Ray

Title: Re: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: KGarrad on Sunday 11 May 14 11:31 BST (UK)

If, like me, you use some weird & wonderful method of email (I use GMX), then it should allow ANY kind of file, including .ged (Gedcom) to be attached to an email.

The only problem is whether the US relative has the means to read the gedcom?! ;D

Title: Re: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: [Ray] on Sunday 11 May 14 11:36 BST (UK)

K

Don't you mean "weird and 1and1-derful" ?  :-)

R

Title: Re: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: KGarrad on Sunday 11 May 14 11:52 BST (UK)

 ;D ;D

Actually no!
Don't use 1and1! ;D

I have, for many years, avoided Outlook (because of the ease of getting unwanted viruses etc) and used webmail.
Since leaving the Netherlands, I no longer have access to my old ISP - and therefore their email client.

So, I found GMX.com - which uses a similar interface, that (importantly) isn't Outlook - or any Outlook derivative!

Call me curmudgeonly; call me weird, but that's how I like to operate! ;D ;D

Title: Re: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: [Ray] on Sunday 11 May 14 20:25 BST (UK)

Not 1&1 ?

GMX.com [ www.GMX.com then select the 1&1 logo ]
Contact
    1&1 Mail & Media Inc.
    701 Lee Road, Suite 300
    Chesterbrook, PA 19087

    Customer Care
    Email: support@corp.gmx.com
    Press Contact for UK
    Email: press@gmx.co.uk
    Phone: +44 1753 490 414
    Press Contact for US & other countries
    Email: press@gmx.com

 

Title: Re: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: KGarrad on Sunday 11 May 14 20:51 BST (UK)

I bow to your superior knowledge!! ;D

I never knew that! ???

Title: Re: Family Historian 3 - Help!
Post by: [Ray] on Monday 12 May 14 10:51 BST (UK)

K

Superior knowledge?
Nope, just a lucky spot from last year, which I luckily remembered.  ;D


R