I think Legacy's gedcom format is not the problem. It's just that a gedcom file strips away all the formatting that Legacy uses to create the nice EE-style citations. One example is that the US census template asks for Jurisdiction State in one field and Jurisdiction County in another. In the gedcom tag, it shows up as "1 AUTH State, County" whereas in the EE-style source output, these two components would be presented in the reverse order.
This would be easy enough to fix on the back end. However, other gedcom components would take some serious programming changes to re-arrange. I am in the midst of asking TNG to consider implementing some of these. In the mean time, I still think Legacy's sourcewriter is awesome. I just wish the gedcom did not make such a mess of things. It would be nice if each of the template components could go to its own gedcom line and tag and then the back-end programming would not be so complicated. Gail Rich Nestor Smyrna, Georgia www.roots2buds.net On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:26 PM, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kirsten, > > I do not use WorldConnect and although I have trees on Ancestry I haven't > used them for a long time (now well out of date!), so I actually don't know, > but there is no reason to suppose that they will not produce good results. > > TNG uses a particular type of web coding and it is quite possible that it > does not know how to handle the current Legacy Gedom output. It does not > follow that this will apply to other types of coding. I recently transferred > a Gedcom from Legacy to another program and this transferred OK, so it would > seem that the basic Legacy Gedcom 5.5 is OK. > > > Ron Ferguson > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Update your British Prime Ministers Timeline - Blogs > http://www.fergys.co.uk > View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Sources: Nifty formatting lost in gedcom output >> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:17:56 -0700 >> >> Gail: >> >> What a crushing disappointment! I don't have a website, but as I've worked >> away at converting sources I've also wondered how they will appear when >> posted at RootsWeb's WorldConnect via gedcom. (I haven't tried it yet >> because of the source repetition bug.) I wasn't expecting a perfect >> translation, but was hoping they wouldn't turn into unintelligible garbage. >> I'm curious about whether anyone else has tried updating a WorldConnect tree >> with SourceWriter-generated citations. >> >> Kirsten >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gail Nestor >> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:41 AM >> To: Legacy User Group >> Subject: [LegacyUG] V7 Sources: Nifty formatting lost in gedcom output >> >> >> Do you happen to find yourself in the following three categories? >> >> 1) You use Legacy v7 sourcewriter and have converted some/all of your sources >> 2) You publish to the web using TNG >> 3) You strongly desire to have these sources formatted according to Evidence >> Explained >> >> If so, please note that the gedcom output from Legacy does not lend itself >> to formatting the same way the web site as it does in Legacy reports. I was >> so excited that Legacy came up with sourcewriter and that we could finally >> format our sources the way that the professional genealogy field does. The >> sourcewriter tool is easy to use and I think it's going to help many people >> get over a fear of sourcing. >> >> This is all great! However, for those of us who publish to the web, all is >> lost in the translation to gedcom. This is a huge disappointment to me! We >> must either find a way to get TNG to re-format the gedcom data or find a way >> to have Legacy export the sources in the same way they are presented on the >> screen. >> >> I am at a loss on how to proceed. I have converted 3/4 of my census data to >> the new source format, but on my TNG website, these sources are still a >> mess. If you would like to respond off-line, I would sure love to have some >> fellow collaborators on working out this issue. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Gail Rich Nestor >> Smyrna, Georgia >> www.roots2buds.net >> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
