Saturday, July 12, 2008

GEDCOM

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Today's HotLink topic is GEDCOMs. GEDCOMs are genealogy files that allow us to exchange genealogy information between genealogy programs. Some programs can read a GEDCOM file and create webpages. One program, Ancestral Author, can convert a GEDCOM file to a very nice PDF file with the names linked.

If you want to learn more about GEDCOM perhaps you'll find something helpful at one of these websites.

GENViewer Genealogy File Viewer - GENMatcher, Find Dupli

ViewGED 1.02 review and download. view, viewer, gedcom, ged

Gedcom Import/Export - GenoPro

Comparison of GEDCOM to HTML converters

GEDCOM Utilities

Ann Turner's GEDCOM Utilities

PhpGedView

Ancestral Author: Convert GEDCOM to Hyperlinked PDF

Indexed GEDCOM Method for Genweb Authoring

Mr. Dickie

Monday, July 7, 2008

PDF Files for Genealogy

In the last few years PDF formatted files have been assuming a more significant role in online genealogy publishing.

The RootsMagic genealogy program can output PDF files. The Ancestral Quest program can produce very nice "linked" PDF reports from GEDCOM files. Other reports from genealogy programs can be converted to PDF using free or shareware programs.

The use of PDF insures that the recipient of the file can read and print the report with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader on their own computer.

There's a PDF page link on the homepage of my genealogy website. From the PDF page you can access several reports that I have made available to anyone who visits.

If you are interested in learning more here are links to some useful websites.

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Publishing Your Genealogy with Ancestra

Ancestral Author: Convert GEDCOM to Hyperlinked PDF

Ancestry.com - What Is PDF and Why Do I Care?

Ancestry.com - Free Program to Create PDF Files

Ancestry.com - Create Free PDF Files

Ancestry.com - More On PDF Files

Create PDF files shareware - Google Search

Mr. Dickie