Ward, Are you saying that the export option to "Break between words (old style)" doesn't work?
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ Tutorials: Programme of adding videos commenced 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: wnkwal...@rogers.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:46:13 -0400 > > The extra space appears to be a bug on the import, not on the export. When a > GEDCOM 'PAGE' record is long enough to have a continuation record, Legacy is > not concatenating the 2 lines properly, introducing a space. Here are the > GEDCOM lines corresponding to my previous example, where the word 'family' > became 'fami ly' in the imported source detail. > > 3 PAGE M432, roll M432_699, Wayne Twp, p. 145, dwelling 2091, fami > 4 CONC ly 2194, Margaret Jones age 8, accessed 2 Aug 2008 > > Other concatenations are working correctly, such as for the 'NOTE' field. > > Ward > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ward Walker" > To: > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:37 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] > > >> Ross, >> >> This is what I was getting at in my (admittedly long-winded) posts titled >> "Incomplete Export of Source Details" last week. The source detail info >> from the first tab all gets strung together into one field in the GEDCOM. >> Upon re-import, Legacy probably has no choice but to create a Basic style >> source from it. The effect is that some citations will read quite >> differently, as I showed in my example. >> >> As for the extra spaces, I didn't look closely at the pattern, but I do >> recall noticing some unwanted spaces at the time. In fact, my example >> shows the word "family" broken in two. >> >> Ward >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ross Chapman" >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 7:46 AM >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] >> >> >>>I normally do transfer via the backup... this time the GeDCom file was >>> already created for an upload to my web page so decided to use it >>> instead. I >>> have already replaced the file with a backup from my pc so there is no >>> issue >>> there. However it also shows me that the data I have passed on to family >>> members may have issues as they don't use Legacy but PAF and FTM. >>> >>> Ross P. Allan Chapman >>> Toronto, Ontario, Canada >>> ross.chap...@rogers.com >>> >>> Visit my genealogy web page at http://rossallanchapman.tribalpages.com >>> (major work in progress) >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On >>> Behalf >>> Of ronald ferguson >>> Sent: July-02-09 2:19 AM >>> To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com >>> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] >>> >>> >>> Ross, >>> >>> It may be that if you change the setting for Break notes between Words >>> may >>> help (Customise), but I do not know. >>> >>> However, why are you using a GEDCOM? I do similar, but because I have a >>> non-Legacy program on my lap-top. If I was using Legacy then I would just >>> transfer my .fdb file - or the zip back-up if I wanted the settings. >>> >>> >>> Ron Ferguson >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>>> From: ross.chap...@rogers.com >>>> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >>>> Subject: [LegacyUG] >>>> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:37:11 -0400 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I exported a copy of my database into a GEDCom file for >>>> transfer to my notebook and all the source citations were switched over >>>> to >>> the >>>> Basic format. When it did that is started placing spaces in some of my >>> data >>>> i.e. splits in file numbers and the like. Any of you out there seen this >>> or >>>> know of this issue? >>>> >>>> >>>> Ross P. Allan Chapman > _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/ 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
