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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Re: GEDCOM files
« on: Monday 17 October 05 14:45 BST (UK) »
My website demonstrates a splendid Macintosh-based tool called GEitCOM for handling gedcoms. My website also demonstrates how to exchange gedcom files through a forum such as this one, either by displaying it in your browser as a textfile or by downloading it as a zipped textfile.
Since joining this forum, I've never seen gedcom exchange requests, neither to give nor to take. Whenever I use the Mormon online service, I spend my time downloading gedcoms. I'm surprised that this fundamental aspect of family-history research doesn't seem to interest many RootsChatters.
It's better to send your gedcoms to friends so that they can examine them offline, using their favorite genealogy tool, and maybe pick out pieces of them for their own research, rather than transforming them into HTML stuff for a website. HTML websites with family trees in them are a positive bore, even if they've been built with user-friendliness in mind, and attractive to look at (which they usually aren't). Thanks to the excellent invention of the gedcom language, HTML websites with family trees in them are totally unnecesary.
William Skyvington
Since joining this forum, I've never seen gedcom exchange requests, neither to give nor to take. Whenever I use the Mormon online service, I spend my time downloading gedcoms. I'm surprised that this fundamental aspect of family-history research doesn't seem to interest many RootsChatters.
It's better to send your gedcoms to friends so that they can examine them offline, using their favorite genealogy tool, and maybe pick out pieces of them for their own research, rather than transforming them into HTML stuff for a website. HTML websites with family trees in them are a positive bore, even if they've been built with user-friendliness in mind, and attractive to look at (which they usually aren't). Thanks to the excellent invention of the gedcom language, HTML websites with family trees in them are totally unnecesary.
William Skyvington