Thanks Mark and Brian,
I downloaded Genviewer and checked the data - nothing obvious seemed
spurious, but neither could I see an obvious answer.
I checked with the person who sent me the gedcom files and got the following
advice:
"The Norton line to current day was created with Family Historian that only
creates a gedcom file and uses 5.5 which is still the standard format. As
there is no translation of some proprietary database format it is pure
gedcom. The Collier gedcom was exported from Generations (which does have a
few quirks) into Family Historian and then split out using the FH tool for
splitting trees."
Does this shed any light??
Thanks muchly,
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "BE Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Gedcom import
If you open the GEDCOM in a text editor like Notepad you should see, near
the beginning of the file, a listing showing which program generated the
GEDCOM.
Here is a sample taken from a GEDCOM I have.
1 SOUR PAF 2.31
2 NAME Personal Ancestral File(R)
1 DEST PAF
1 DATE 5 APR 1999
1 SUBM @S1@
1 FILE TRSFRPAF.GED
As you can see it was generated by Personal Ancestral File version 2.31.
Once you know which program created the file in the first place if you
post back here with that name someone who uses that program may be able to
tell you what the tags mean. As Mark Lang said in his reply they look like
program specific tags and may have no equivalent in Legacy.
They may also be able to tell you where the "CHAN: NOTE 21:57:15" came
from and what it means. I think that is something legacy added to your
marriage notes because it did not understand the tag and wanted to
preserve the value for you.
Brian Kelly
Rockland ON, Canada
Paul Collier wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to import a gedcom file into my v.5D Legacy, but have come up
against an "error" message that states unrecognised items
_ASID
_FILE
_WEB
Can anyone please tell me what these tags represent and what is the best
way to deal with them?
Also, during transfer I have a note inserted into marriage notes for
several marriages in the format CHAN: NOTE 21:57:15
Does anyone recognise what this might mean, and know how it should be
dealt with?
Cheers,
Paul
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