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Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 141 Send Message	LindaAngela	Report	15 Dec 2015 21:45
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 141 Send Message	What happens to my tree if I export it as a gedcom?
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 5,249 Send Message	Kense	Report	15 Dec 2015 22:29
	Nothing it stays there as it is.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	16 Dec 2015 00:03
	To clarify - you're only exporting a copy, not the original. You will need an off-line family tree programme on your own computer to make sense of the data, or you can upload it to another site.
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Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 141 Send Message	LindaAngela	Report	5 Jan 2016 19:46
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 141 Send Message	Thankyou, I managed to do it and am very pleased with the result, the next thing I will do is save it on a dongle. As you might be able to tell, I am not very computer minded.