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I am trying to load my gedcon created in family tree maker but having no success. Can anybody help?

Hi, Margaret, The following should, in theory, work (note I have taken some of the instructions from the help menu of Family Tree Maker and havent actually done it myself): 1. Open Family Tree Maker (obviously!). 2. Click on 'File', then choose 'Open Family File' from the drop- down menu. 3. Change the drop- down menu in 'Look In' to the folder in which you have saved the file. 4. Change the drop- down menu on 'Files of type' to GEDCOM (*.GED). 5. You should now, hopefully, see the GEDCOM file you are trying to open in the 'Open Family File' box. You can either double- click this icon or click it and select 'Open'. 6. Click Save. Family Tree Maker displays the New Family File dialog box. 7. In the Save in lists, select the drive and folder where you installed Family Tree Maker. Usually this is the FTW folder on drive C. 8. In the New Family File dialog box, you must give the GEDCOM file a new name so that Family Tree Maker can make a copy of it and convert the copy to a Family Tree Maker for Windows file. You can either click Save to accept the name that Family Tree Maker suggests or type a new name and then click Save. The file name can be any valid Windows file name, up to 255 characters, although it must have the extension .FTW. If you do not type in the .FTW extension, Family Tree Maker will add it for you. Family Tree Maker reloads your file as a Family Tree Maker for Windows file and then displays the Import from GEDCOM dialog box. 9. Some programs format information slightly differently than Family Tree Maker. Using the options listed below, you can reformat your information. Location Some programs (like PAF) have longer location fields than Family Tree Maker does. For example, PAF can hold the location "Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States of America." Select the Keep first part if location fields are too long option button to keep the first part of the location. The example above would become, "Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio." Select the Keep last part if location fields are too long option button to keep the last part of the location. The example above would become, "Ohio, United States of America." Options Some programs (like PAF) add an underscore between compound names (for example, St._Germaine). Select the Delete underscore from names check box to replace the underscore with a space. Some programs also don't put spaces between the city, county, and state in location fields. Select the Add spacing in location fields check box to add the normal space between these words, if necessary. 9. Click OK again to create the Family File. If any errors were generated as your Family File was created, Family Tree Maker asks you if you want to see an error report. If you choose to look at the error report immediately, Family Tree Maker will display it in a dialog box on screen. If you want to look at it later, you can open it in a word processor such as Notepad or MS Word. The file will be in the same folder and have the same name as the Family File you just created, except with the extension .LST. Hope this is of use to you. Regards Dean

Margaret Do you mean you are trying to load your gedcom into GC? If you do, then I think you been successful because you are showing as having 2106 people in your tree on GC. Margaret

Chris, have sent you an email Margaret

Hi Margaret, I don't know anything about Gedcom but my maiden name was Pollard...