![]() ![]() Tying relationships together, generating pedigree charts, generating Web pages, producing GEDCOM files, and other such tasks has consumed hundreds of hours of these talented programmers' time. Genealogy programs are generally written by very talented software developers who spend thousands of hours developing their programs. However, you will undoubtedly find that it is possible but not practical." The quick answer is, "Yes, if you have enough time and money. Can we convert our Access (or other) database to GEDCOM and import it into the genealogy program? We now want to put this information on the Web (or on CD-ROM or in a book), and we want to use the report generation capabilities of the Brand X genealogy program. We have thousands of entries in our database. We use Microsoft Access (or FileMaker Pro or SQL or some other general-purpose database program or Excel spreadsheets). My organization has been entering data for a long time in a general-purpose database program, not a genealogy program. The questions usually are more or less like this example: I often receive e-mails asking questions about converting genealogy databases. ![]() The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
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