Question

How do I send a FTM gen report of 4gen of my father?

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Hi Frank, I hope we can help.

Where are you trying to sent it from, and to?

What format or type of file is it now?

Answer 1

Dear Keith I am trying to send a genealogy report of the first 4 generations of my Father's genealogy made by a Family Tree program 6, now very old. The file is 15 pages long and includes 17 references. I don't know how to generate a GEDCOM, and the program may not do that. Part of the trouble is that I am over 90 and only have limited knowledge of computers; The whole genealogy file on my Father is 676 pages with 1826 references.

Answer 2

As I understand it, this report was created by a computer software package that no longer exists (or at least that you no longer have access to).

If so, and you have an electronic copy of the report (for example, in a word-processor file or a PDF file), you could create profiles "manually" by copying the information from the file and pasting it into the "ADD PERSON" forms here on WikiTree.

If you have only a paper copy of the report, you could have it scanned to a PDF format, and have optical character recognition done to "recognize text" in the file. (I think it should be possible to have this done by a library or by a commercial business like Staples.) That will generated electronic text that you could copy and paste into the WikiTree forms. If you do this, you should watch for errors in the computer text.

Whatever you do, I suggest that you make sure that trusted family members (I'm thinking particularly of Cindy & Robert) have a copy of your work.