Hi Kirsten
I have just tried the procedure and it appears to do what you are wanting. I
created a 2 person test database with one AKA for one of them (very simple
so that I could see what was happening). I exported a gedcom for 5.5 Gedcom
format (not the Legacy format default, although I am not sure if this makes
a difference). I opened the file in my text editor (Notepad) so that I could
see what came through - the answer was:
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME John /SMITH/
1 NAME Fred /DAGG/
where these are the name and the AKA.
Is this what you want?
Cheers, Brett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirsten Bowman" <vik...@rvi.net>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:58 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs From Legacy
Brett:
I don't quite follow everything you've said, but it sounds fairly similar to
what my more knowledgeable friend is telling me. As I understand it, Legacy
isn't programmed to permit excluding GIVN and SURN tags from the aka fields;
excluding those two tags only applies to the primary name. I'm not sure
whether that's an intelligible response because I'm speaking in a foreign
language but perhaps you'll understand.
Thanks for taking a look at my annoying problem.
Kirsten
-----Original Message-----
Hi Kirsten
The tags you are using for names are (as in a Legacy 7 generated gedcom
viewed in Notepad) for example:
0 @Ixxx@ INDI
1 NAME Joe /Bloggs/
2 GIVN Joe
2 SURN Bloggs
1 NAME Joseph /Blogs/
2 GIVN Joseph
2 SURN Blogs
There may be other tags interspersed for sources etc where applicable, but
essentially there is simply a repeat of the name, given name and surname
tags for each name/AKA. I have looked at other gedcoms and seen only the
level 1 NAME tag, so obviously the gedcom structure does not rely on the
level 2 name tags to work. If you exclude the level 2 GIVN and 2 SURN tags
then you should still get the repeat of level 1 NAME tag for each name/AKA.
The AKA does not use a different tag from the "main" name in a gedcom file.
Cheers, Brett
----- Original Message -----
The usual format for an individual's page at RootsWeb WorldConnect for
records uploaded from a Legacy-created GEDCOM begins like this:
ID: [XXXX]
Name: [John Quincy Jones]
Surname: [Jones]
Given Name: [John Quincy]
This is a useless repetition of names and clutters up the page, so I
eliminate the Surname and Given Name lines by deleting the appropriate
GEDCOM tags before creating the file. The trouble starts again when an
individual has an aka (or 2 or 3). For each aka I still get the same three
Name-Surname-Given Name lines. I can't find the GEDCOM tags that cause this
in order to delete them.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to prevent it for aka's?
Kirsten
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