Jennifer, Does TNG use child-mother and child-father relationships or does it use child-marriage relationships like PAF 5 and RootsMagic 3? GEDCOM 5.5 was not planned for transfer of data for family histories with blended families.
Legacy 5 was changed to allow sources for each child-parent relationship but I haven't used them because other programs do not keep those sources. There are also variations in transfer of name sources. The birth source is the most likely to survive transfers. All of the genealogy programs have variations in GEDCOM including PAF. One of the source fields in PAF 5 file is *shorter* than the standard GED 5.5 allows. The same field was used for long source text like obituaries up to the 2001 version of a program used by some of my research contacts. One of those men with a web site switched to TNG but he wasn't the one with the lengthy source texts cut short by a GEDCOM transfer to Legacy. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer It has been brought to my notice that the _STAT tag used by Legacy to show child status is not a standard gedcom tag. It is not recognised by TNG, the program I use to put my data on the web. In TNG, I can manually set the adopted field, but was trying avoid having to do that, as I would have to reset it for all adopted people after each gedcom import, which is often. If I add an event called Adopted to Legacy, that will show up in TNG, but if I do certain Legacy reports, the adopted status shows up twice unless I uncheck include "child status". That however unchecks all including "twin". Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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
