Just export your Legacy DB to gedcom, and re-import. While importing, add a global source. Does the saem thing. I do it to any gedcom data I get from someone else so I know where it came from.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Bayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Protecting GEDCOM Data > Mary wrote: > > > I have recently read about a free software utility called "GEDmark" from > > > Progeny Software that places ownership data on every individual in one's > > > GEDCOM. The software scans your GEDCOMs, and you enter authorship > details > > and > > > comments. This ownership info cannot be removed and stays linked with > your > > > GEDCOM data no matter who 'borrows' it. > >> > > Bruce Replied: > > Since a gedcom is just a text file, this *IS* impossible. It seems like > it > > would only work for those not inclined enough to open up the file into a > > text editor. > > So I went to the web site. The first two paragraphs are key to > understanding > what's going on here. They talk about how it is easy to remove author info > from Gedcoms because that info is only in the header at the top of the > Gedcom file. The program puts "a source" on "every person in the GEDCOM > file". Thus it appears to me that it creates a new source on each person. > Now this makes it much more difficult to remove the authorship from the > file. True, for someone with even very modest programming skills it would > be easy to remove, and even someone who was good with using "find and > replace" functionality in an editor could probably get rid of the extra > source > relatively easily as Bruce points out. > > But this is free ware and it does make it a bit harder for "unsophisticated" > users, who perhaps care more about their genealogy than computers, to > erase an author's name from a Gedcom file. > > I could not find a place where the site claimed, as Mary does, that > "This ownership info cannot be removed and stays linked with your > GEDCOM data no matter who 'borrows' it." > > jr > > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
