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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 13 May 12 09:01 BST (UK) »
Emma


message sent       :)

Files Received       :)

Files Converted    8)

Files Returned      :D

Confirmation of success    YIPPPEEE!

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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 13 May 12 11:24 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much Ray - you are an absolute life saver!

Now for carrying on with my tree rather than re-doing!

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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 26 June 12 17:08 BST (UK) »
I am having the same problem as the people before me  ::)  I have my tree on a .gft file or a gedcom file but they are pre 5.5 so I can't import them to my new software Family tree Maker 2012 Platinum! Can anyone help me please?   :-*     Carol
BOREHAM - (KEN/Ramsgate & Sittingbourne/Harriet or Hetty m James Ravensdale)
CHENEY - (ENG/Rochester/Married into the de Frates family 1749)
DE FRATES - (ENG/London, Bishopsbourne, Rochester & York)
FAIR -(LON/London/Hannah m John de Frates)FRENCH - (KEN/Higham/Frances French b 1794; m. John de Frates)
GUTHERLESS - (YKS/Bridlington, York, Malton)
PARKER - (YKS/York and Redcar)
RAVENSDALE - (ENG/Sittingbourne/Stafford)
SWAN - (KEN/Bishopsbourne/Rochester/London)
WILSON - (YKS/York & Leeds

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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 26 June 12 19:13 BST (UK) »
Hi

More than wiling to try to help . . . . . .

pm me with a valid email address and I'll respond so that you can send me a file or two or three or  ;D


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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 26 June 12 20:03 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the offer of help, I have now sorted it out  :o  I exported the gedcom file to Ancestry.co.uk (I have 6 months free access with my new software) and it let me do it and then to export the gedcom file to my new software  :o   It must have saved it as a compatible file so it was easy in the end.

Thank you for your offer of help though

Regards
Carol
BOREHAM - (KEN/Ramsgate & Sittingbourne/Harriet or Hetty m James Ravensdale)
CHENEY - (ENG/Rochester/Married into the de Frates family 1749)
DE FRATES - (ENG/London, Bishopsbourne, Rochester & York)
FAIR -(LON/London/Hannah m John de Frates)FRENCH - (KEN/Higham/Frances French b 1794; m. John de Frates)
GUTHERLESS - (YKS/Bridlington, York, Malton)
PARKER - (YKS/York and Redcar)
RAVENSDALE - (ENG/Sittingbourne/Stafford)
SWAN - (KEN/Bishopsbourne/Rochester/London)
WILSON - (YKS/York & Leeds

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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 26 June 12 20:46 BST (UK) »
Hi Carol

Congrats!

cheers

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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 23 December 12 15:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi Ray,

Any chance you could help another one out with the .gft coversion? My Grandpa is trying to get the old information out but he lost the original install disc and has been trying to find the old software on eBay. I'd rather get the file into a widely used format and download him some newer updated software.

Thanks,
Nick

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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 23 December 12 15:44 GMT (UK) »
Hi Nick

More than willing to try to help.
Send a pm to me with a valid email address and I'll respond so that you can send me a file or two or three or  ;D

You need to make 2 more posts before the Personal Message (pm) system on Rootschat is available to you.
[Reply to this with something like "ok" then again saying "merry xmas" ]   :D ;D

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Re: Converting a GFT or GEDCOM to '5.5 or higher'
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 27 December 12 11:32 GMT (UK) »

Status Report . . . . .

A conversion carried out, awaiting Nick's "sign-off"  8)

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