The programmer is still working on the direct import. We'd be happy to have you as a tester when it's available, if you'd like to volunteer.
Thanks for your interest in Legacy! Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Jamie Poindexter < webmas...@poindexterfamily.org> wrote: > Dawn, > > I, too, am looking at eventually moving from TMG to another program. I > came across the announcement a couple of months ago about Legacy building > an import tool for TMG users. I couldn't find any updates on its status so > recently joined this forum in hopes of learning more about the tool's > development. > > Discussion I have had with Wholly Genes and with Second Site creator John > Cardinal trend to suggest that TMG 9 will continue to function on Windows > platforms for several years of advancements with the Windows platform. So > we don't have to rush to Legacy or another application, we have time for > Legacy to fully develop the importer. My goal is to be able to import TMG > tables into a new application without going through a gedcom. I fear the > gedcom standard hasn't caught up to apps like TMG capabilities and we could > loose or misidentify a lot of our TMG data importing to another app via a > gedcom. > > I'd like to hear more from Barbara on how she converted TMG to Legacy and > was it an accurate transfer. She blazed a trail I'm not ready to travel. > If we can learn from her and others where the potholes are on that path, we > can experience a better transition. > > I also use Second Site, the third party app to TMG for converting the data > to html pages for my web site so our organization's members can access the > tree. So any replacement to TMG must have a solution for converting to web > pages. > > Jamie Diana Poindexter, Research Committee co-chair & webmaster > Poindexter Descendants Association > www.poindexterfamily.org > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
