Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread Cliff Gittens
Alan, Thanks for the response. I actually used your approach in my testing of the Joaktree product. I certainly could use the approach in a live environment when updating the site with a new Gedcom. Thanks again On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Alan Pereira wrote: > You could try (after makin

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread Cliff Gittens
Hi Ron, Nothing is being altered, just simply re-categorized. But you also seemed to miss the question regarding the functionality of the combine duplicates and potention impacts on the software. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Cliff, > > I would never alter the accurac

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread James Cook
That should read... replace "CENS" with "RESI" On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:40 AM, James Cook wrote: > Looking at the GEDCOM standard, it looks to me that the nested > structure of CENS and RESI are compatible (both using <> > structures) . So, you could also just do a find and replace in your > G

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread James Cook
Looking at the GEDCOM standard, it looks to me that the nested structure of CENS and RESI are compatible (both using <> structures) . So, you could also just do a find and replace in your GEDCOM to replace "CENSI" with "RESI" and do it that way. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Ron Ferguson w

RE: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread Alan Pereira
You could try (after making a copy of your legacy.fdb file) 1) Exporting your existing file to gedcom 2) Opening up the gedcom in wordpad and do a replace all CENS with RESI (Matching case and whole words only) 3) Import gedcom back into Legacy Alan -Original Message- From: Cliff Gittens

Re: [LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread Ron Ferguson
Cliff, I would never alter the accuracy of my data to suit another program. There is a joaktree forum why not ask there? Otherwise have a look for another PHP program such as TNG or HumoGen. --- Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 "Cliff Gittens" wrote: >I have heavily used the

[LegacyUG] Combining Event Types

2013-02-28 Thread Cliff Gittens
I have heavily used the Census event type in my Legacy database. I am now evaluating a genealogy web publishing software product call Joaktree which is a Joomla extension application. Unfortunately the Joaktree product is not configured to process the Census Gedcon tag CENS. Joaktree does proces