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From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net>
To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com, "Sandy Jacobson" <sandra.j@comcast.net>
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Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re:  Meaning of  GEDCOM
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Sandy,

You can find a good description by reading this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM

juanita

> Hello, I am fairly new to genealogy research.  I see so many times a
> reference to gedcom but have no idea what it means.  Please, please
> don't abbreviate words as there are some who have no clue what you are
> speaking of.  Use the word, then in parenthesis the abbreviation. 
> From then on we'll know what is being referred to.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Sandy J.
>