Brett: I don't quite follow everything you've said, but it sounds fairly similar to what my more knowledgeable friend is telling me. As I understand it, Legacy isn't programmed to permit excluding GIVN and SURN tags from the aka fields; excluding those two tags only applies to the primary name. I'm not sure whether that's an intelligible response because I'm speaking in a foreign language but perhaps you'll understand.
Thanks for taking a look at my annoying problem. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of BMcL Robinson Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 7:43 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOMs From Legacy Hi Kirsten The tags you are using for names are (as in a Legacy 7 generated gedcom viewed in Notepad) for example: 0 @Ixxx@ INDI 1 NAME Joe /Bloggs/ 2 GIVN Joe 2 SURN Bloggs 1 NAME Joseph /Blogs/ 2 GIVN Joseph 2 SURN Blogs There may be other tags interspersed for sources etc where applicable, but essentially there is simply a repeat of the name, given name and surname tags for each name/AKA. I have looked at other gedcoms and seen only the level 1 NAME tag, so obviously the gedcom structure does not rely on the level 2 name tags to work. If you exclude the level 2 GIVN and 2 SURN tags then you should still get the repeat of level 1 NAME tag for each name/AKA. The AKA does not use a different tag from the "main" name in a gedcom file. Cheers, Brett ----- Original Message ----- The usual format for an individual's page at RootsWeb WorldConnect for records uploaded from a Legacy-created GEDCOM begins like this: ID: [XXXX] Name: [John Quincy Jones] Surname: [Jones] Given Name: [John Quincy] This is a useless repetition of names and clutters up the page, so I eliminate the Surname and Given Name lines by deleting the appropriate GEDCOM tags before creating the file. The trouble starts again when an individual has an aka (or 2 or 3). For each aka I still get the same three Name-Surname-Given Name lines. I can't find the GEDCOM tags that cause this in order to delete them. Does anyone know why this happens and how to prevent it for aka's? Kirsten 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
