Dave, Without wishing to be rude, have you looked? You can read a GEDCOM in any text reader or import it back into Legacy as a new file and view it there.
There have been changes in the GEDCOM generation - see the update details on the Legacy website, and from what has been reported there may be more to come. It is difficult for anyone to answer a question of detail such as this as we do not know what sources you may be having problems with and how you are using the sources. My way of working (see another current thread) may export OK and yours not, or vice virca. The best way of dealing with things such as this is to test them. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Keeney To: [email protected] Sent: 27 May 2010 03:37 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incomplete Export of Source Details Has there been any advances to this issue in the last year? E.G. has Legacy stated that they will support the exporting of Source Detail in the Source Writer templates? Or anything like that? If not I'll need to go back and unconvert all of my Source Writer sources. Legacy is an important part of my genealogy toolbox, but no more important that my use of TNG. They have to work together, at least for me. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Ward Walker <[email protected]> wrote: I'm trying to create a GEDCOM 5.5 file for a newly found distant cousin. I would like to include my sources. My problem is with the level of source detail exported. SourceWriter source details have important fields on the Detail Information tab that are meant to always form part of the citation on reports, and then the fields on the Text/Comments tab which can optionally be part of a citation (as controlled by checkboxes) or just backup details in the database. Basic sources have an additional checkbox "Add this Detail to the Source Citation on Reports" on the Detail Information tab. This controls the text in the "Source Detail" field on that tab. In my case, if it is a Basic source and I had not checked that box on the Detail Information tab, then the Source Detail field consists of informal notes to myself about what the source applies to or what new info the source adds. I don't mind my cousin seeing these cryptic snippets of text. Unfortunately, when the are included in the export, they are confusing the way that they are appended to the source citation as if they were meant to be part of the citation. I would prefer to omit these from the export entirely. I don't mind including all data from the Text/Comments tabs (master or detail), as long as it ends up in its own place in the target system (not appended to the citation text unless specified so). Here's the rub. The main GEDCOM export panel has a checkbox "Override Source options - include all source information". If I leave this checked, then I get all source detail fields, including all Text/Comments fields and including that unwanted Source Detail field for Basic sources. However, if I uncheck it, then I lose too much. True, the Basic sources only have the Source Detail text appended to the citation if I had indicated so for reports in Legacy. That's good, but now the Text/Comments data is gone too (unless their own checkboxes had been checked for adding them to the citations). Much worse, now the SourceWriter sources have no info from the important fields on the Detail Information panel! The resulting exported citations are badly incomplete. In summary, if I select to override source options, I get all source information, but some of it is awkwardly appended to the citation part of the source, in the target GEDCOM or system. If I don't override, then the export only contains as much info as would appear in a Legacy report citation, for Basic sources, and it contains seriously incomplete info for SourceWriter sources. Is this just a serious design flaw, or am I overlooking something else in the export settings? Thanks. 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