From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jun 28 16:32:10 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5SMWAjb010952; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:32:10 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5SMW8Gi020997 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:32:08 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k5SJtKFI012139 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:55:20 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k5SJtKLt012138 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:55:20 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k5SCENFI004406 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:14:23 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k5SEp0Dg002848 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:51:00 -0600 X-Envelope-From: rockydan@cebridge.net Wed Jun 28 08:51:00 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k5SEp0jb002839 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:51:00 -0600 Received: from mxo2.broadbandsupport.net (mxo2.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.82]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5SEovM9032237 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:50:57 -0600 Received: from cebridge.net (unknown [24.32.133.211]) by mxo2.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DDD348D83 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:50:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <44A29747.2000208@cebridge.net> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:50:47 -0500 From: Dan Brennan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com References: <200606281042.k5SAgSVc025609@lists5.rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport.net-MailScanner-From: rockydan@cebridge.net X-Spam-Status: No X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Genealogy programs Is there a genealogy program capable of exporting to and importing from database files (.DAT or the like) (Access or similar) or to or from a spreadsheet ( think Excel, .XLS or similar) or Adobe portable document format (.PDF)? Something besides a GEDCOM file. I am tired of the constant clicking to and fro in order to enter all the information about an individual. A spread sheet would make it a lot easier to enter data, to edit, and to cut and paste to the genealogy program, with a link to the original document so updates to the original document would be automatic. It might take some kind of a work-around, but it would be worth the effort. Or is there a way to use a GEDCOM in another program? Thanks to all for the information. Dan