Q: I want to submit my GEDCOM to WorldConnect but my genealogy file contains personal notes about my family members. How can I exclude these notes from my WorldConnect file?

A. Create your GEDCOM with the notes intact, then go to the page to submit your GEDCOM to WorldConnect http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmuser.cgi

Create a user code and password, then click on the button for the Standard set-up page. There you will be prompted to provide information about what to include and how to process your file. Item #12 on the Standard set-up page asks whether you want to include all notes, delete notes for the living, or delete all notes. Select "all" and the notes will be removed from the publicly displayed file for ALL entries in your file.

The benefit of submitting the intact GEDCOM and allowing WorldConnect to delete the notes for you is that two copies of your GEDCOM are maintained on file -- one for public display that includes only the data you have specified, and a second that is not displayed that contains all the data you submitted. The intact version of your file is available only to you, the submitter, should you ever need to download it to replace lost data on your own computer. It is the perfect back-up.




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