Hi John, I agree. I also found exporting using Ged 5.5 the best but not good enough.
The loss of the Source Text is a major problem for me. I thought it was strange that it didn't transfer because when I imported a file created as a gedcom by Family Tree Maker using PAF as the destination and gedcom 5.5 the file transferred perfectly into Legacy with all the Source Text intact. Val On 1 Feb 2005, at 21:01, John R. Bayle wrote: > Yesterday I said I'd run some tests on importing into FTM > using different GEDCOMs generated by Legacy 5.0. I ran > three tests using three different GEDCOMs generated by Legacy 5.0 > build 5.0.0.173, Oct 26 2004. > > My computer uses an AMD Athlon 1.66 GHz and has 384 MB of > Memory and a 40 GB disk with about 13 GB free. I'm running > Windoze XP without SP 2 and McAffee Virus protection. Oh yeah, I > have a wireless router to connect via Cable Modem to the internet, > and that has a hardware firewall in it which is enabled. > > So I took my current research file which has 10,838 people in it > now, and exported it from Legacy to GEDCOM three different times. > Each time I used a different option on the Export screen. At the > top of the screen it says "Produce file for:" and provides several > options. I made a one export using each of the following three > options: > "Legacy" > "Gedcom 5.5 only" > "Basic" > No other options were changed, so every other Legacy parameter > was at defaults (I think). That created three different GEDCOM > files with three different names. These were all imported into FTM > 10.0 by just double clicking on each GEDCOM file's icon. The files > were not cleaned up in any way. FTM defaults were used to get > through the import as quickly as possible. The results are > summarized below: > Legacy 5.0 Option Number of Errors Data > Loss > Legacy 19489 > Minor > Gedcom 5.5 only 11397 > Minor Basic 202 > Major > > The number of errors is the number reported by FTM after importing. > > Data Loss is my opinion of what was lost. I couldn't see any > difference in the data loss between Legacy and Ged 5.5 options. > Both had a problem with "Y" in some death records as has already > been discussed. All BMD events went over ok, as did most if not all > other events. I didn't do an exaustive search. The notes went over > ok, but there were "mysterious" blanks inserted at "random" places > in the text, due no doubt to how FTM handles line endings. > > However, the Basic option suffered from Major data loss. Notes were > gone. BMD events went over to FTM fine. But other types of events > did not. They were simply missing. > > Sources and Marriages and links all seemed to go over fine in all > options. Because FTM doesn't have a special field for source quality > as Legacy has, the "QUAY" tag gets put into FTM's text field as > "QUAY X" where X is the number I've assigned to the sources (or > maybe the source citation's) quality. This was also true in all > three options. > > In conclusion it seems to me that to minimize error count and > maximize data transfered one should use Legacy's Ged 5.5 only > option, when going to FTM 10. The error count can be driven very > low by using the "Basic" option, at the cost of what I consider to > be major data loss. > > 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
