[LegacyUG] Importing Obituaries into Legacy from GED
Hi, My main genealogy program is Reunion on my Mac, but I recently got a small pc laptop to easily take along with me. On this I am currently using the standard version of Legacy. I've exported my Reunion file to a GED file. In this file I have quite a few obituaries, which I've tagged as OBIT. I have checked and they are in the GED file. My problem is that they are not being imported into Legacy. OBIT does not show up in the import list and it doesn't show up in the unrecognized list either. As far as I can tell, the data is not being imported anywhere. What can I do to bring this data into Legacy? Thank you for your help. Heidi Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Importing Obituaries into Legacy from GED
Heidi J. Schmelzer wrote: My problem is that they are not being imported into Legacy. OBIT does not show up in the import list and it doesn't show up in the unrecognized list either. As far as I can tell, the data is not being imported anywhere. What can I do to bring this data into Legacy? From what I can determine from the GEDCOM 5.5 Standard, OBIT is *not* a valid tag. Legacy won't recognise it. As you say, it doesn't even show up in the 'Unrecognised items' list when importing. However, changing the tag to _OBIT_ *does* get Legacy to see the tag as 'Unrecognised'. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Importing Obituaries into Legacy from GED
If you have the book, see p 247. If not, what you need to do, (you may choose not), is to start over on the Gedcom. Unrecognized items. Any tags that are not recognized by Legacy during the analysis pass are placed inthe 'Unrecognized Items' box. When I did it (years ago), this tool showed all the unrecognized items on a menu showing my list on left and all the choices you can match up with on the right. This, for me, was mostly in my Event titles. The disadvantage for you, is anything added to the database since gedcom will be lost in the re-gedcoming. When I did it orginally, I had to do it three times before I got it perfect. Rich in LA CA --- On Thu, 8/27/09, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote: From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Importing Obituaries into Legacy from GED To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 8:47 AM Heidi J. Schmelzer wrote: My problem is that they are not being imported into Legacy. OBIT does not show up in the import list and it doesn't show up in the unrecognized list either. As far as I can tell, the data is not being imported anywhere. What can I do to bring this data into Legacy? From what I can determine from the GEDCOM 5.5 Standard, OBIT is *not* a valid tag. Legacy won't recognise it. As you say, it doesn't even show up in the 'Unrecognised items' list when importing. However, changing the tag to _OBIT_ *does* get Legacy to see the tag as 'Unrecognised'. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Importing Obituaries into Legacy from GED
Hi Mike, Thank you so much for this information. Just experimented a bit. I was able to get all the obits in by editing the GEDCOM file and matching _OBIT_ to NOTE. All I need is for the information to be there, somewhere. Thanks again. Cheers, Heidi From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:47:48 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Importing Obituaries into Legacy from GED Heidi J. Schmelzer wrote: My problem is that they are not being imported into Legacy. OBIT does not show up in the import list and it doesn't show up in the unrecognized list either. As far as I can tell, the data is not being imported anywhere. What can I do to bring this data into Legacy? From what I can determine from the GEDCOM 5.5 Standard, OBIT is *not* a valid tag. Legacy won't recognise it. As you say, it doesn't even show up in the 'Unrecognised items' list when importing. However, changing the tag to _OBIT_ *does* get Legacy to see the tag as 'Unrecognised'. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
