ML> gmail is mail only, like hotmail... you can _store_ your PDF on gmail
 ML> by emailing to your gmail account and then leaving it there... that way
 ML> you can go to yout gmail account and read that email any time you want
 ML> and thus also be able to download the pdf and put it where ever you
 ML> need to...

 JP>         That would not work for me )\/(ark. 

no, not for others to access, no... 

 JP> I have the .pdf on a HD and on a Flash Card too, to be sure. 

and you could also have it stored in your gmail mailbox ;)

 JP> I need it to be available for others to find and D/L too. 

then you will need some sort of web or ftp site to store it on... lycos,
angelfire or another freebie webhost or even possibly with your ISP if it
isn't AOL (ie: timewarner, local telco, etc)...

 JP> After all, a genealogy is to be shared.      

hehe, i didn't know that... i got my dad into it many years back after one
of our reunions... they were selling a book covering a lot of us over 300
years here in the south (IIRC)... anyway, my father and his siblings were
listed in the book and we basically started tracing back from there... i
actually started by putting the data from the book into "brother's
keeper" and once i got back some 6 or 8 generations, i ran a few
reports and printouts... he was impressed and we "discovered" a
few "anomolies" too... even found that a canuck or two came down
this way and married into the family ;) at least one was _already_ in the
family, too! O:)  hahaha...

anyway, dad uses the windows version of PAF for most everything now... and
i take gedcoms and run them thru a few other windows programs before
importing them to a database on my website that does all the charts and
such... editing and adding records and everything... the database also keep
info private if the individual is still alive as well as being designed for
multiple users and multiple gedcoms of whatever families so that work can
be done in collaboration all via the web ;)

)\/(ark