How to send a GEDCOM from PC to Mac Reunion

[Dan Devaney]

A friend has a PC which runs the latest PAF. She is trying to send me her family. I use a Mac OS 10.4 and reunion 8.06 as my genealogy program. We are on AOL.

She doesn't know how to export a GEDCOM. Would it be possible to get step by step instructions so I can forward them to her?

Would love to have any help.

Thank you,

Dan Devaney in Hawaii

[David G. Kanter]

A friend has a PC which runs the latest PAF. She is trying to send me her family. . .She doesn't know how to export a GEDCOM. Would it be possible to get step by step instructions so I can forward them to her? Search the Reunion Manual for "paf gedcom" and the first item "Exporting Gedcom from PAF, Exporting a Gedcom File from PAF 2.x" should be a start, even if the version of PAF is later than 2.x.

Once the GEDCOM has been created, it can be sent to you as an e-mail attachment. Note: It's usually a good idea to compress such a file—and for a PC person that would likely be to make it into a Zip archive—before sending it as an attachment as that provides another level of protection from minor corruption en route.

[Dan Devaney]

Search the Reunion Manual for "paf gedcom" and the first item "Exporting Gedcom from PAF, Exporting a Gedcom File from PAF 2.x" should be a start, even if the version of PAF is later than 2.x.

Once the GEDCOM has been created, it can be sent to you as an e-mail attachment. Note: It's usually a good idea to compress such a file—and for a PC person that would likely be to make it into a Zip archive—before sending it as an attachment as that provides another level of protection from minor corruption en route.Thank you David,

Will do.

Aloha,

Dan