Without wading all the way back through this thread, I have to now ask this question…what makes you think there are no source details in your exported gedcom? In other words, exactly what or how are you trying to view this data? You had one message that said “in checking your gedcom…” so just what does “checking” mean, that is, how are you viewing the data?
The details may be there but something or somehow they are not being displayed depending upon your method of displaying it. Have you tried sending a sample .GED to someone else to have them confirm that your source details are indeed off to never-never land? Brian in CA From: Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 7:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] does gedcom drop source details??? Brian,Thanks for your reply. I tried that but still no source details! Ron, to respond to some of your points: You wrote: 1) "By generic, do you mean a generic GEDCOM as selected from the drop-down list." Ans.: YES! 2) "Ah!!! I just realised that you are probably using Source Writer " Ans.: Now I usually use source writer but MANY of my entries are in the basic,original syste.-- I don't know what it's called. Doesn't matter-- I don't have ANY source details. 3) "Even if the GEDCOM contains the Source Details the chances of them being imported into another program are just about zero." Ans.: I am exporting from Legacy & into Legacy. (I chose the generic style because I want to upload eventually into WikiTree. I don't EVER remember anybody discussing this before -- if the source details are dropped then one has to become an extreme splitter or else the sourcing info will be extremely vague. I have zillions of entries under Findagrave, for example, with only the Detail info to distinguish one entry from another. Also, it seems to me we should be warned if Legacy introduces something new that means it will no longer "travel" via .gedcom, but that may be asking too much. The more I work with Legacy, the more I realize how complicated it all is!! Pat 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
