Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
Ward, I have a gedcom from a cousin of just over 100 people with some notes and sources and it is only 37KB. It's one of the most useful gedcoms I've ever received. Cathy Ward Walker wrote: Besides inspecting the file with Notepad, you can further verify the integrity of the file by opening it in one of the simple, free GEDCOM viewer programs, such as GENViewer Lite. Even though GEDCOM files contain no images, the file size of 31KB does sound too small to contain much of a tree. Ward -Original Message- From: Valerie Garton Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 8:54 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have to go back to the not so helpful owner ? Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Wendy Howard Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows Notepad. The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from Legacy: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 9.0 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Legacy 1 DATE 20 Jun 2017 You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain information that relates to the people named. 1 NAME William /Hargreaves/ 2 GIVN William 2 SURN Hargreaves 2 SOUR @S3@ So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to IMPORT into Legacy. It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking the data further. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy (in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday). Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34: I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic file and not a gedcom one. Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is meant to be her family back 6 generations ? Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I have confused you. Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
Best to not save! Jay Ingalls On 1/15/2018 8:18 AM, Mary Leek wrote: Valerie, If you happen to open this file in a word processor such as Word or Word Perfect to have a look, be certain when you close it, it is saved as plain text (ASCII format). Mary -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Wendy Howard Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 5:16 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows Notepad. The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from Legacy: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 9.0 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Legacy 1 DATE 20 Jun 2017 You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain information that relates to the people named. 1 NAME William /Hargreaves/ 2 GIVN William 2 SURN Hargreaves 2 SOUR @S3@ So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to IMPORT into Legacy. It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking the data further. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy (in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday). Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34: I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic file and not a gedcom one. Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is meant to be her family back 6 generations ? Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I have confused you. Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
Besides inspecting the file with Notepad, you can further verify the integrity of the file by opening it in one of the simple, free GEDCOM viewer programs, such as GENViewer Lite. Even though GEDCOM files contain no images, the file size of 31KB does sound too small to contain much of a tree. Ward -Original Message- From: Valerie Garton Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 8:54 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have to go back to the not so helpful owner ? Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Wendy Howard Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows Notepad. The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from Legacy: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 9.0 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Legacy 1 DATE 20 Jun 2017 You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain information that relates to the people named. 1 NAME William /Hargreaves/ 2 GIVN William 2 SURN Hargreaves 2 SOUR @S3@ So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to IMPORT into Legacy. It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking the data further. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy (in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday). Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34: I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic file and not a gedcom one. Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is meant to be her family back 6 generations ? Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I have confused you. Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
Valerie, If you happen to open this file in a word processor such as Word or Word Perfect to have a look, be certain when you close it, it is saved as plain text (ASCII format). Mary -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Wendy Howard Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 5:16 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows Notepad. The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from Legacy: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 9.0 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Legacy 1 DATE 20 Jun 2017 You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain information that relates to the people named. 1 NAME William /Hargreaves/ 2 GIVN William 2 SURN Hargreaves 2 SOUR @S3@ So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to IMPORT into Legacy. It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking the data further. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy (in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday). Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34: > > I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow > researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file > is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program > - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic > file and not a gedcom one. > > Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is > meant to be her family back 6 generations ? > > Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I > have confused you. > > Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
When were you asked this? When you were importing it into Legacy, or something else? If you're importing it into Legacy, I can't see that there's any harm in saying 'no' and seeing what happens - at worst, it doesn't work and you have to start again. Make sure you are importing it into a new, empty, file, so it does not get an opportunity to affect your other data file(s) until you're ready to combine them. File > New File > Import From Another Program > A different program (via GEDCOM) > Next Step > ... Wendy Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 14:54: I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have to go back to the not so helpful owner ? Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Wendy Howard Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows Notepad. The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from Legacy: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 9.0 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Legacy 1 DATE 20 Jun 2017 You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain information that relates to the people named. 1 NAME William /Hargreaves/ 2 GIVN William 2 SURN Hargreaves 2 SOUR @S3@ So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to IMPORT into Legacy. It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking the data further. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy (in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday). Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34: I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic file and not a gedcom one. Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is meant to be her family back 6 generations ? Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I have confused you. Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
I am still trying to do this and I am now asked " is this a multiple disk gedcom file ". I don't know the answer so do I say yes or no or have to go back to the not so helpful owner ? Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Wendy Howard Sent: Monday, 15 January 2018 10:16 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows Notepad. The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from Legacy: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 9.0 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Legacy 1 DATE 20 Jun 2017 You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain information that relates to the people named. 1 NAME William /Hargreaves/ 2 GIVN William 2 SURN Hargreaves 2 SOUR @S3@ So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to IMPORT into Legacy. It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking the data further. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy (in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday). Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34: > > I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow > researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file > is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program > - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic > file and not a gedcom one. > > Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is > meant to be her family back 6 generations ? > > Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I > have confused you. > > Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
GEDCOM files are plain text, so you can open them in any word processor or notepad program, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer, or Windows Notepad. The first few lines will look something like this one, which I created from Legacy: 0 HEAD 1 SOUR Legacy 2 VERS 9.0 2 NAME Legacy (R) 2 CORP Millennia Corp. 3 ADDR PO Box 9410 4 CONT Surprise, AZ 85374 1 DEST Legacy 1 DATE 20 Jun 2017 You'll be able to see people's names and other text displayed in various lines, along with other lines that will seem to be gobbledegook but contain information that relates to the people named. 1 NAME William /Hargreaves/ 2 GIVN William 2 SURN Hargreaves 2 SOUR @S3@ So if you can open this .ged file you've been sent in an appropriate program and see similar lines, you have a GEDCOM file, which you should be able to IMPORT into Legacy. It's good practice to import files like this into a new Legacy file before merging the data with your existing file. You may want to look at things like Locations, and tidy them up to the way you record them before taking the data further. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy (in a sunny/cloudy/windy Kaiwaka, New Zealand, thankfully a cooler summer's day to some we've had recently, not yet over 30C at midday Monday). Valerie Garton wrote on 15/01/2018 11:34: I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic file and not a gedcom one. Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is meant to be her family back 6 generations ? Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I have confused you. Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
Just open Legacy and try to import it into a new file - File import Gedcom. If that works, it is a Gedcom file Sent from my iPhone Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com 623-271-1206 > On Jan 14, 2018, at 3:34 PM, Valerie Garton wrote: > > I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow researcher who > has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file is a gedcom one and > for me to " read up on how to add it to my program - the file was " DNA > File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic file and not a gedcom one. > > Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is meant > to be her family back 6 generations ? > > Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I have > confused you. > > Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
[LegacyUG] Is this a proper gedcom file
I have been having trouble getting a gedcom file from a fellow researcher who has been telling me on numerous occasions that her file is a gedcom one and for me to " read up on how to add it to my program - the file was " DNA File.rmgc (1mg) ". Yes obviously a rootsmagic file and not a gedcom one. Finally I have been sent this file : " DNA File.ged (31KB) " which is meant to be her family back 6 generations ? Can I have your comments please and please add more questions if I have confused you. Cheers from Valerie Garton [nee Vaughan] in sunny Sydney -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
