File transfers need to be checked *during* data entry if relatives are using different genealogy programs with less source detail and (like PAF) different child-parent relationship fields than Legacy. Location notes are lost in GEDCOM file transfers even when the second program has a system for "Place history."
My data entry has to be planned for printable report names and printable locations rather than repeating City, County, State, Country for every event for every family member who stayed a lifetime in one place. My home area became a province 100 years ago so older maps have different names. One family farm had ten changes of post office even though family events were in the same house. Official birth/marriage location names changed frequently giving the impression that the family moved.
Name and detail collectors plan for a complex database but lifetime family historians need readable *unedited* reports to share as PDF or direct printouts with relatives. Non-researchers need to see how they are descendants of two or more children from a starting ancestor. -- Elizabeth
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mellors"
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