Brian is correct - in both the variety of opinions and that Legacy itself is an excellent viewer, but you may want to check out Genviewer. Pretty good - and sees more than just gedcoms.
Thanks Trevor From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Brian Lightfoot Sent: June 29, 2016 10:25 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to make a gedcom from my legacy's fdb file If you ask 100 people about the best gedcom reader, you are likely to get 100 different answers. Keep in mind that gedcom files were not designed to be viewed by the human eye but rather were developed as a means of data exchange between genealogy software. So any reader that you use is merely a peek at what the information looks like. You already have one of the best gedcom readers at your fingertips…Legacy family tree. But since that is where you started from, I might suggest another easy way of viewing your data and that is to upload it to Ancestry.com. You could use one of their paid subscription accounts or use their freebie service at their “World Connect” servers (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/). Brian in CA From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Gloria DeSousa Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 5:47 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to make a gedcom from my legacy's fdb file Thanks Jenny and Brian for responding. I will suggest to Legacy to change the wording. Your emails really helped in making the gedcom. I just downloaded gedcom reader and don't like it. Do you have a suggestion to what app to download in order to read GEDCOMs? On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: On 28-Jun-16 01:37 PM, Gloria DeSousa wrote: The instructions in Legacy on how to make a gedcom leave me hanging. I get to where I am suppose to choose a file to make into a gedcom, and I get the message: *"Family tree.fdb already exists. Do you want to replace it?"* Just open your family file in the usual way, select Export from the File menu and proceed from there. When you click on "Select a filename and START EXPORT" the filename you are asked to select is the name you choose for the Gedcom you are creating. I think the use of the word "Select" there is misleading as it implies you are going to click on an existing filename, but you are not, you are creating a new file with a new name. -- Jenny M Benson
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