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- Path: sparky!uunet!rosie!next.com
- From: kate_smith@next.com (Kate Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.roots
- Subject: are there any FAQ's for this newsgroup?
- Message-ID: <5903@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:21:07 GMT
- Sender: news@NeXT.COM
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- I've just started lurking here because I've started my own research
- project on my family tree. I'm in luck because I already have 3 books
- containing information about various branches of the tree. But there is
- so much to look into. I would hope that there is a FAQ or two answering
- the following types of questions:
- 1) How do you hook up with the information that the LDS has gathered (and
- what have they gathered)?
- 2) is there an ftp site and what can be found there?
- 3) what are the standard formats for genealogical data? I've read about
- Tiny Tafels and GEDCOM in the group, but don't know anything about them.
- 4) what is the best software? (I think I have a decent sense of that from
- the recent postings)
-
- Thanks for pointing me at this information.
-
- Kate Smith
- Kate@NeXT.com
-
- my families include the Claghorns from Georgia, McCleod's from Glenngary
- Scotland who immigrated to southern Ontario and MacArteney's from ??
-