The _MAR tag produced by Geni.com is probably not included in Legacy's list of recognised Gedcom tags. Legacy certainly understands the more common tags of _MARN and _MARNM for married names. When importing the Gedcom, open the list of unrecognised terms and have Legacy convert the _MAR tag to an _MARN or _MARNM tag. Alternatively you can change them in the Gedcom file with a text editor. After the import, you can check if Legacy has got it right in the Marriage Information (MRIN) window.
As an alternative, instead of merging the Geni.com produced Gedcom file into your existing Legacy database, why not create a new database, then import this Gedcom into this new database then use the advanced tagging function of Legacy to select the family members you want to keep. Export these to a new Legacy database then merge this with your existing database. I have never used Geni.com, so I am unable to assist you in how to limit (edit) any data for export to a Gedcom file. Stuart On 21 April 2010 16:56, Stein Arne Jensen <steinarnejen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I started my fiddling about with my family tree on www.geni.com and > very soon got a really big three thanks to other people doing the > same. > > I have however encountered a couple of problems when exporting the > data in Gedcom 5.5 format to Legacy. > > First of all - Geni have two fields for every persons surname - > apparently no matter if their male or female. Legacy doesn't know the > label _MAR which seems to be women's surname after they got married. I > am not sure how to deal with this. > > The Gedcom file is simply too big and includes a lot of names I have > no interest in having in my tree at the moment, particularly since I > haven't bothered to get the right to read those profiles. The result > is a lot of names with only one initial + the surname. When I opened > the Merge function in Legacy I had more than 900 names that needed > merging! > Does anyone know how to limit the data from Geni? > > Again - thanks a lot for your very quick response to yesterdays problem! > > Stein Arne Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
