My GEDCOM is posted on Family Tree DNA, but, like Seekgene, I had a lot of difficulty. My particular problem is that I have more than one name for many of the individuals in my tree--Portuguese names, American names, middle names, religious names, nicknames, etc. I thought the GEDCOM would pick up the preferred name in each instance, but apparently (and I researched this at the time) the GEDCOM process is not sophisticated enough to do that, and the result is totally random.
Here's an example: When I first started researching I couldn't find my father's name on a ship's list, even though I knew the year he had immigrated and the name of the ship. I finally found it by searching on the Portuguese version of his first name, Eduardo, for that ship and that year. It turned out that my father, his mother, and all his siblings were listed under the surname "Oosto." And it was a typed list, but obviously the keys needed cleaning and the indexer was in a hurry. I kept that alternate name in my database, because if I ever wanted to find that list again I would need to search under "Oosto." Well, when I made my GEDCOM my father's name appeared as "Eduardo Oosto." Since I didn't want to remove all the alternate names from my database, my solution was to create a new file specifically for the GEDCOM, and that involved a lot of editing. And I can't easily update my GEDCOM without doing a lot more editing. The fault is in the way GEDCOMs work, not in our stars. Nancy -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
